The Soul of the Search.
We don't wait for the future of clinical leadership to take shape. We help author it. Experience alone isn't enough — leading care in a behavioral health of integrated care organization demands clinical leaders with uncommon resolve, and a search partner who understands what's truly at stake.
— Why Us
Exclusively Clinical Leadership
We don't place generalists. We don't stray from our lane.
Built for Community Health and Integrated Care
Community Health - Behavioral Health - Integrated Care - Value-Based Care - Rural Health
Narrative-First Methodology
Every search starts with where the resume ends
Native Research, Always
Custom market intelligence built fresh for every engagement
— What Drives Us
Clinical leadership in community health is a
different game.
The clinical leaders who thrive in community health, behavioral health, and integrated care organizations are not just credentialed. They carry clinical authority earned at the bedside and organizational courage exercised in the boardroom. They can hold a care culture together under pressure, scale clinical integrity without compromising it, and make a mission-driven healthcare organization feel like the only honest choice to the best candidates in the field.
Finding those leaders requires a search partner who understands the intersection of clinical excellence, organizational mission, and the realities of building community health organizations that perform and matter. That's the only intersection we work in.
— Meet Our Founder
Dana Young
— Founder & Managing Partner
.Dana's career sits at the rare intersection of executive search, people strategy, and mission-driven healthcare organizations — 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 clinical leaders who carry both the credentials to earn the trust at the bedside and the conviction to drive transformation at the organizational level.
His perspective was forged inside some of the most consequential healthcare organizations in New England. At ZurickDavis, one of the region’s premier healthcare executive search firms. Dana led high-stakes leadership searches for organizations where the margin for error was measured in patient outcomes — from Silver Hill Hospital to Vinfen — to Aspire Health. He has sat across the table from C-suite leaders navigating funding crises, CMOs rebuilding clinical cultures after periods of disruption, and leaders carrying missions that the communities they served simply could not afford to lose.
He also has navigated the high-growth chaos of early-stage startups, advised New England's largest charitable organizations, and sat with leaders wrestling with the hard questions that live at the intersection of performance and purpose.
He founded Impact Narrative to serve the growing world of community health, behavioral health, and integrated care 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.
Career Arc
TriNet
HR Technology & People Operations
High-growth startup advisory - Talent Strategy - Early-stage leadership
ZurickDavis
Executive Search - Healthcare & Human Services
Vinfen - Silver Hill Hospital - Aspire Health - Viability - New England’s largest charitable orgs
Now
Founder - Impact Narrative
Clinical Leadership Search - Community Health - Behavioral Health - Integrated Care - Rural Health
— Why It Matters
Six reasons community health organizations choose us.
Most search firms treat clinical leadership like any other executive placement. We built Impact Narrative specifically for the community health, behavioral health, and integrated care organizations that know care quality is strategy — and that finding the right clinical leader requires something the standard healthcare search playbook cannot deliver.
01
We only do this one thing.
Clinical leadership search for community health, behavioral health, and integrated care organizations. Not general executive placements. Not administrative search. One domain. Three sectors we know deeply. The kind of clinical search expertise generalists cannot replicate.
02
We start where the resume ends.
Clinical credentials get you to the table. Clinical courage gets the hire right. Our narrative-first methodology digs past board certifications and licensure — into the defining moments, the hard calls, and the quiet convictions that predict extraordinary clinical leadership.
03
You own everything we build.
The market maps, the candidate intelligence, the competitive landscape — it all stays with you. No database lock-in. No proprietary black box. You get the full picture and keep it.
04
Fixed feed. Fully aligned incentives.
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, every time.
.We don't source from a database of recycled clinical candidates. We build custom intelligence for every engagement — mapping the real landscape of available talent for your specific context.
06
We understand what’s at stake.
In community health, behavioral health, and integrated care, the wrong clinical leader doesn't just cost you a hire — it costs you your patients, your community's trust, and the mission your organization exists to protect. We operate with the urgency and precision that reality demands.
— 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 an executive director for manty years, I know how valuable someone with Dana’s rare skill set can be. Dana works with his client organizations as a true partner.
Executive Director
Non-profit Healthcare Organization
Ready To Begin
Your clinical leadership is your competitive advantage.
Let’s find the clinical leader who raises the standard of care, carries the mission, and takes it further than you imagined. No pitch. No pressure. Just and honest conversation about where you are and where you are headed.
Or reach Dana directly at dana.young@impactnarrative.co