Sarah Kier

Sarah Kier

Principal

Sarah is a healthcare operations and consulting leader with more than 20 years of experience advising, designing, and operating complex access, capacity, and care delivery models for large health systems and AMCs. Sarah's unique approach combines deep operational credibility and strategic advisory perspective to enable organizations to translate ambition into execution and deliver measurable, sustainable results. She is particularly passionate about aligning people, processes, and technology to create access and capacity models that are operationally excellent; human centered; and trusted by patients, providers, and staff.

Sarah's work focuses on improving how patients connect to care; how providers are supported in delivering it; and how health systems build scalable, resilient platforms for growth and performance. Sarah has led enterprise-wide access center, capacity management, and performance transformations across the full continuum of care, most recently serving as senior vice president of enterprise patient access at Emory Healthcare. In that role, she held system-level responsibility for access strategy and operations across 11 hospitals and more than 220 ambulatory practices. She has successfully guided large-scale technology and workflow transformations, including Epic scheduling optimization, enterprise telephony modernization, and the deployment of digital self-service, telemedicine, and AI-enabled decision support across dozens of specialties. Earlier in her career, Sarah held leadership roles at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, where she led surgical scheduling, hospital medicine operations, enterprise technology conversions, and performance improvement initiatives.

Education

Goizueta Business School at Emory University
Master of Business Administration

Loyola University Chicago
Bachelor of Arts