Katie Healy is a seasoned health industry planner, passionate change leader, skilled project manager and workforce strategist with experience across both the private and public sectors. Leading large complex major infrastructure projects from business case to commission, Katie has extensive project management experience to deliver on-time and within scope. As the world continues to change and the need for connected healthcare is greater than ever, Katie has also played a vital role in digital health uplift for major IT infrastructure projects across both metro and regional health services. Katie’s clinical background and interprofessional education leadership experience allows her to draw from ‘real world’ experience to engage with health leaders and successfully implement change. With data-driven decision-making, Katie is the senior director and strategist for a health organisation with an operating budget of over $1.5 billion, almost 10,000 staff in five main hospitals, across 10,000 square kilometres. Katie is an accomplished graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors with a Master of Health Service Management. In her current role leading teams of experienced strategists and planners, Katie uses population data, social determinants of health, workforce trends, co-design with consumers and analysis of emerging global and national trends to plan the future of health across the Sunshine Coast Health region and the broader Queensland health system.