TONY BURKE, Founder and CEO of Pivot

Tony is the founder and CEO of Pivot Health Advisors, a healthcare consulting firm committed to advancing commercial products/services that help advance and evolve the U.S. health system. The team serves as healthcare business consultants and partners with companies that are seeking to understand and navigate the complexities of the health care market. 

As former C-suite executives from major health systems, rural hospitals and national industry organizations, Pivot is uniquely positioned to guide companies toward the quadruple aim in health care through their healthcare conultant services .

Most recently, Tony served as Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Innovation at Teladoc Health, the world's leading virtual health care company. Tony was responsible for elevating Teladoc's presence among C-suite leaders and guiding enterprise-level strategic engagements with health systems.

For nearly 20 years, Tony served on the executive team of the American Hospital Association (AHA) as senior vice president and also served as president and CEO of both AHA Solutions, Inc., and AHA SmartMarket, Inc., AHA for-profit subsidiaries.

During his tenure with the AHA, Tony formed and advised more than 250 strategic/collaborative partnerships under the AHA brand, providing significant value to health care providers and turning the endorsement into a valuable differentiator for products and services serving health care.
 

He is skilled at piloting organizations through strategic inflection points to a position of strength and

advantage (while simultaneously nurturing the financial health of the core business). Tony specializes in empowering enterprise-wide focus on essential customer-centric business capabilities, brand positioning initiatives, marketing strategies and execution in multiple industries.

Applying his more than 30 years of business and consulting experience, Tony helps transform teams toward generative corporate lifestyle habits that create more agile/adaptive cultures for the sake of better business outcomes. He is a results-driven executive and top corporate officer with a demonstrated track record of achievement in transformational management, business strategy, marketing, entrepreneurship and cross-functional team leadership. He has established capabilities in profit/loss management, innovation best practices and customer experience.

A serial entrepreneur, Tony also created the National Healthcare Career Network launched in 2009 and has since aligned more than 320 professional associations and specialty societies to address the nation’s health care workforce shortages. He also spearheaded the development of AHA SmartMarket, an online platform designed to connect health care professionals with their peers and experts in the field.

Prior to AHA, Tony counseled clients at one of the world’s leading marketing/communications firms and managing financial communications for Sara Lee Corporation, a Fortune 50 consumer product company in Chicago. Tony was principal of his own marketing consulting firm in Chicago, where he counseled AHA Solutions, as well as other local and national organizations.

Tony earned his degree in marketing from California State University at Fullerton. 

Tony is a member of the following organizations: 

• Senior Fellow of the Healthcare Research and Educational Trust (HRET) 
• Healthcare Financial Management Association
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development
• Health Care Compliance Association and the American
• Society of Association Executives

He is also a certified Executive Coach and Innovation Black Belt.

In 2009, Tony launched the ProActive Kids Foundation, a private 501(c)3 foundation to address the social, health, and personal issues related to childhood obesity in local communities. This free program for children was funded by Community Benefit depts. and hosted at 10 Chicagoland hospitals and touched over 3000 participants in 10 years. 

 In this capacity, he also served on several advisory boards for organizations focused on child health and obesity. Tony and his family are located in Geneva, IL. In his spare time, he enjoys camping, motorcycles, golf, tennis, and coaching his children’s activities. 

Connect with Tony on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tnybrk/