STRATEGY IMPLEMENTED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director, Engagement Management
Amanda leverages her industry knowledge and client support experience in healthcare, higher education, technology implementation and creative services to mobilize teams, develop and manage organizational systems and processes, and plan marketing communications efforts.
At Strategy Implemented, Amanda manages the client engagement continuum - from business development through project management and execution process. Working alongside SI teams, Amanda provides process oversight and support on project inputs and deliverables, while ensuring client and team expectations are met.
At the heart of Chris's practice in higher education has been connecting people to challenging educational experiences. After three decades as an international educator, the business of making programs and partnerships work and the beauty of the world's cultures and languages inform his perspective and approach to the international higher education space. Chris has worked with university and recruitment partners from every active market in the world and brings his experience in language acquisition, program design, partnership development and enrollment to every project.
Chris' recent work has focused on pathway programs, medical education and the development of enrollment approaches focused on both student access and success in higher education.
Dr. Amanda Pullen, Senior Vice President has extensive experience in designing and implementing innovative strategies for academic medical institutions, including medical education and research, international collaborations, marketing and public relations in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors of the healthcare industry. At Strategy Implemented, Amanda leads client engagements and provides strategic, operational and business planning consulting services to clients looking to develop new initiatives and programs. Amanda uses her industry insight and experience in healthcare, higher education and medical licensure and accreditation to help organizations think through implementation-ready strategies, business models and innovative partnerships aimed to create increased value to the organization, its constituents and the overall communities it serves.
Amanda's recent engagements include developing strategies for increasing international patient referrals, marketing a traditionally US based product/service globally, building organizational systems and infrastructure to support programmatic innovation and expansion for a number of academic healthcare centers, hospitals and universities with ties to and interest in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. Amanda has also worked with national agencies responsible for setting the assessment standards for physician education and training to provide strategic and operational direction in the design and implementation of international strategies.
Prior to joining Strategy Implemented, Amanda worked as a Director at Huron Consulting Group and held several positions at Harvard Medical School including Executive Director of the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation and Vice President of Communications for Harvard Medical International. Amanda also served as the Executive Director of the European Advisory Board for Project HOPE, and had roles in research, marketing and communications with Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, where she was responsible for launching the first UK team in the pharmaceutical industry to be dedicated to building relationships with British National Health Service management teams.
Job Titles:
- Director of Digital Media
Kate has over a decade of experience in managing large, multi-faceted digital media projects in educational, healthcare, financial and marketing industries. Her expertise in technology innovation implementation, content development, and project management has helped clients develop award-winning websites, educational platforms, apps, games, animation, and publishing.
Kate has produced interactive media for clients including Boston Children's Hospital, Humana, Leapfrog, Sesame Workshop, The Girl Scouts of America, Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin, The National Wildlife Federation, Reading is Fundamental, The Learning Games Network, National Academy of Sciences, and Crayola.
At Strategy Implemented, Kate provides clients with vision, strategy development and supervision of creative and programming work related to the design and maintenance of digital media platforms including digital learning environments. Kate works closely with clients to strategically develop web-based and emerging technology plans for new and existing initiatives that align with institutional objectives.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
Dr. Crone, President and CEO, is a globally recognized senior healthcare physician executive with more than 25 years of experience leading profitable international ventures for U.S.-based hospitals, medical schools, and private industry and the non-profit health and education regulatory and accreditation community. Dr. Crone's work at Strategy Implemented focuses on helping domestic academic health centers, medical schools and universities to develop and implement international strategies and programs, as well as assisting assessment and accreditation bodies interested in globalizing their missions and operations.
Prior to forming Strategy Implemented, Dr. Crone founded and built Huron Consulting Group's Global Healthcare Practice and he served as Founding President, and Chief Executive Officer for Harvard Medical International, Inc., a not-for-profit subsidiary corporation of Harvard Medical School (HMS) focusing on international program development. He also served as Clinical Professor and Dean for International Programs for HMS. Dr. Crone also served as Senior Vice President for Operations at The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., (Project HOPE) and as a professor and administrative leader at both Children's Hospital Boston (Harvard Medical School) and Seattle Children's Hospital (University of Washington School of Medicine). Dr. Crone currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of numerous healthcare organizations nationally and internationally.