SEATTLE, Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Virginia Mason
Institute is thrilled to welcome the addition of Mary Alida Brisk, MAIS, SHRM-SCP, as the
Director of Client Services. In her new role, she will provide
oversight and strategic talent management. She will also lead the
development of institute team members who provide education,
facilitation, and coaching services to health care organizations
worldwide in the areas of organizational transformation, culture
change, improvements to quality and safety, efficiency, patient
experience and staff engagement.
Brisk joins Virginia Mason Institute from Seattle Children's
Regional Medical Center where she served as the Director of Talent
Management, and previously, as the Director of Learning and
Organizational Effectiveness. Prior to her nine years with Seattle
Children's she worked as a solutions-driven strategy consultant to
Fortune 500 companies with a focus on large-scale performance
improvement. Through her vast experience Brisk possesses an acute
understanding of human behavior, critical success factors, with
expertise in driving organizational optimization.
"I am most excited to contribute to Virginia Mason Institute's
ability to help other institutions develop their work to improve
quality and safety, and employee well-being," shared Brisk.
The Virginia Mason Institute team welcomes Mary Alida's deep knowledge of Lean Improvement
and human factors engineering and vast experience applying her
dynamic skill set to talent management, organizational development
and human resources leadership.
"We are delighted to have Mary
Alida join the Virginia Mason Institute team. She brings
over 20 years of experience in lean management, leadership
development and change management. She will work closely with our
clients on driving organizational effectiveness and creating
learning organizations," says institute Interim Executive Director,
Sarah Paterson.
Mary Alida has a Bachelor of Arts
from Western Washington University and
a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Oregon State University.
About Virginia Mason Institute
At Virginia Mason
Institute we believe that zero-defect health care is possible. We
are committed, we are confident, and we can transform health care.
By creating and sustaining cultures of continuous improvement;
through the delivery of training that inspires, prepares and
guides; and in helping organizations solve their urgent and
persisting problems, we can transform health care. It is possible.
Together we will relentlessly pursue the improvement of patient
safety, patient experience and the quality, cost, and delivery of
health care.
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