Source page: McKinsey & Company
November 26, 2025
Healthcare | Leadership | Life Sciences
Organizations are increasingly seeking leaders with clinical experience to better align mission and margin.
Organizations are increasingly seeking leaders with clinical experience—especially physicians—to better align mission and margin. And physicians do aspire to leadership positions, say Senior Partner Amit Shah and coauthors. The top motivator? A desire to scale their patient impact on an enterprise level, according to a recent McKinsey survey and mirrored in interviews the authors conducted with physician CEOs. Few started their leadership journey for the CEO title itself but rather to transform healthcare. The research surfaced three themes: leadership should be developed as a discipline; building a sustainable pipeline requires skill development and mindset shifts; and successful leaders reinvent—unlearning, relearning, and applying clinical lessons with purpose.
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To read the article, see “Physician perspectives on scaling impact from the CEO seat,” October 13, 2025.
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