Some care cultures are simply too important to leave to chance.
The healthcare landscape is transforming faster than ever. Growth, integration, workforce shortages, funding pressures, and rising demand require clinical leaders who can navigate complexity while protecting the mission.
Impact Narrative helps healthcare organizations across community health, integrated care, value-based care, behavioral health, and digital health identify and recruit clinical leaders who don't just manage change, they lead it.
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Chief Nursing Officers
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Chief Population Health Officer
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Community Health + Chief Medical Officers + Integrated Care + Chief Nursing Officers + Behavioral Health + Chief Population Health Officer + Value-Based Care +
We Build the Leadership
Behind Better Care
Who We Are
We don't simply recruit clinical leaders. We find the rare ones who can guide healthcare organizations through growth, transformation, and increasing complexity, without losing sight of the people they exist to serve.
The strongest clinical leaders bring more than impressive credentials. They combine clinical insight, operational discipline, strategic vision, and an unwavering commitment to mission. They know how to expand access to care, strengthen organizational culture, navigate reimbursement and regulatory challenges, and lead teams through constant change.
When demand for services continues to outpace capacity, leadership is no longer just an organizational priority, it is a community imperative. The executives who lead your organization will shape the quality of care delivered, the resilience of your workforce, and the lives of every individual and family you serve.
Healthcare is evolving rapidly….across behavioral health, community health, integrated care, value-based care, and digital health. The organizations leading that transformation need executives who understand that exceptional care, healthy organizational culture, sustainable growth, and mission-driven leadership are not competing priorities, they are inseparable.
That is the work of Impact Narrative.
WHO WE SERVE
01 COMMUNITY HEALTH
Community health organizations operate at the intersection of mission, complexity, and public need. We recruit clinical leaders who can expand access, navigate change, inspire multidisciplinary teams, and build organizations capable of delivering high-quality care for the long term.
02 VALUE-BASED CARE
Value-based care organizations are rebuilding how success is measured, shifting from volume to outcomes while managing risk, data, and accountability across the care continuum. We recruit clinical executives who can lead through this shift, aligning clinical, financial, and operational strategy to improve outcomes without compromising the mission.
03 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Behavioral health organizations are being asked to serve more people with fewer resources while navigating workforce shortages, reimbursement pressures, and growing community need. We partner with organizations to recruit clinical executives who strengthen operations, build resilient teams, and ensure mission and sustainability advance together.
04 INTEGRATED CARE
Integrated care requires leaders who can bridge disciplines, align clinical and operational strategy, and build systems that improve outcomes across the continuum of care. We identify clinical leaders who understand that successful integration depends as much on culture and leadership as it does on clinical excellence.
04 DIGITAL HEALTH
Digital health companies are redefining how care is delivered and experienced. We help organizations recruit the clinical executives who can scale responsibly, balance innovation with clinical integrity, and build organizations that earn the confidence of providers, payers, investors, and the people they serve.
How We Work
Three Ways We Show Up
We partner in whatever way your organization needs, from fractional support, full-cycle recruiting execution to building the infrastructure to grow independently.
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SEARCH
Beyond the checklist
Every clinical leader has a resume. Few have a leadership narrative that reveals how they’ve navigated uncertainty, built trust, inspired teams, and advanced mission through moments of consequence.
- Full-cycle execution on high-priority roles
- Structured interviewing and rigorous assessment
- Proactive sourcing and not just inbound management
- Offer strategy and candidate experience ownership
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BUILDOUT
Scale Intelligence, not overhead
Whether you're navigating rapid growth, executive turnover, or multiple critical hires, we integrate with your team to deliver the strategy, market insight, and search execution needed to secure exceptional talent, when it needs it .
- Partner with leadership on headcount planning
- Own the recruiting function end-to-end
- Integrate with your culture, your tools, and cadence
- Flexible: fractional or contract engagement
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ATTRACT
Build the ultimate talent magnet
Your story is your strongest recruiter. The clinical leaders who will define the future of care are not browsing job boards, they are leading organizations, and advancing missions they deeply believe in.
- Narratives that make the right leader stop and listen
- Story development and sourcing strategy
- Recruiting enablement and interview frameworks
- Recruiting metrics and reporting infrastructure
The Soul of the Search
We don’t wait for the future of clinical leadership to take shape. We help author it.
Exclusively Clinical Leadership
We don’t place generalist, we focus exclusively on clinical leadership . We don’t stray from our lane. We go deep on your care culture, your inflection points, and understand what kind of leader will carry your values forward.
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Narrative-First Methodology
Experience and credentials tell us where a leader has been. Our methodology uncovers how they think, lead through uncertainty, what they value, and the experiences that have shaped their leadership.
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Native Research, Always
Every engagement begins with original market intelligence. We map the clinical landscape, identify leading and emerging talent, and engage with those whose experience, leadership, and values align.
15+
YEARS IN SEARCH
100%
NARRATIVE FIRST METHODOLOGY
1 Focus
ON CLINICAL LEADERSHIP FOR FUTURE-FORWARD HEALTHCARE
Six Reasons Why Clients Choose Us.
Executive search is about far more than filling a leadership vacancy. It's about identifying the people who will shape your care culture, strengthen your organization, expand access to care, and carry your mission forward.
Impact Narrative was built exclusively for clinical leadership because the leaders who transform care are rarely found through conventional search.
01 We only do this one thing.
We focus exclusively on clinical leadership leadership. That singular focus gives us a deep understanding of the leadership, workforce, regulatory, and operational challenges shaping the organizations we serve, and the executives capable of leading them.
02 We start where the credentials end.
Our narrative-first methodology uncovers how clinical leaders think, lead through uncertainty, build trust, and inspire organizations during moments of significant change. Those are the qualities that don't appear on a résumé—but often determine long-term success.
03 You own everything we build.
The market maps, the candidate intelligence, the competitive landscape, it all stays with you. No recycled candidate lists. No overused databases. proprietary You get the full picture and keep it.
04 Fixed fees. Shared Success.
Percentage-of-salary fees create the wrong incentives. Our fixed-fee structure means our success is measured the same way yours is, by whether you got the right person, not the highest-paid one.
05 Native research that’s built fresh.
We don't source from a database of recycled candidates. We build custom market intelligence for every search, mapping the real landscape of clinical leadership talent available for your specific organization, culture, and mission.
06 We know what is at stake.
In future-forward healthcare, the wrong clinical leader doesn't just cost you a hire, it costs you your patients, your culture, and your mission. We operate with the urgency and precision that reality demands.
Our Founder
Built from 18 years sitting on both the inside and outside of search.
Dana Young
FOUNDER
Dana's career sits at the rare intersection of executive search, leadership advisory, and future-forward healthcare, and it's that intersection that makes Impact Narrative different from every other search firm in this space.
With over 15 years placing transformative leaders, Dana has mastered the art of finding the rare ones, the leaders who carry the credentials, trust, and the conviction to drive transformation at the organizational level.
He has navigated the complexity of early-stage healthcare organizations scaling rapidly, advised New England's largest nonprofit healthcare systems, and sat with leaders wrestling with the hardest questions in healthcare….how to deliver exceptional care, sustain a mission, and build an organization worthy of both.
He founded Impact Narrative to serve the growing world of future-forward healthcare organizations that refuse to accept that clinical excellence and organizational mission are in tension.
They are not. Finding the right clinical leader is how you prove it.
They are not. Finding the right clinical leader is how you prove it.
What Clients Say
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Dana is easily the finest executive search professional I have ever worked with; I've worked with dozens over the years, so I don't say this lightly--he's the best I've ever known. As a non-profit executive director for many years, I know how valuable someone with Dana's rare skill set can be. Dana works with his client organizations as a true partner: he listens, he learns, and he shows great skill and professionalism during executive searches and other talent acquisition efforts.
Executive Director
Non-Profit Healthcare Organization
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The Right Team might already be forming.
We maintain a running network of clinical leaders building the future of healthcare. If you are the kind of rare individual who wants to be in the room early and not just on a job board, we want to know your story.
Ready to Begin
Your Next twelve months are defined by who you hire.
Tell us what you are building. We’ll tell you whether our solutions make sense, and if they do, we will move at the speed your organization actually needs.