Therese Narzikul
Therese Narzikul has more than 20 years as a strategic leader in both the payer and provider sectors of healthcare systems. As a consultant and leadership coach, Narzikul hardwires learning and adaptive capabilities for individuals, teams, and organizations. These capabilities enable forward-thinking approaches to emerge from clients. Narzikul specializes in the areas of value-based healthcare, outcome measurement, population health, risk management, design, and performance excellence with a focus on serving and improving the lives of the nation’s most frail and vulnerable citizens.
Narzikul is Co-Founder of a leadership coaching program for healthcare leaders at Villanova University. In prior work, as Vice President of Practice Design and Care Coordination at Jefferson Health, Narzikul focused on population health interventions and successfully built and led a team that measurably improved health outcomes, prevented costly errors and reduced avoidable acute care visits for patients and populations.
Narzikul has also worked with the Department of Justice, United Health Group, Capital Blue Cross, and University of Pennsylvania in a variety of different roles focused on systems and business model design, population health, risk management, measurement, analysis, and most importantly improving lives and experience of care for communities, patients, families, and caregivers.
Narzikul is currently in the dissertation phase of a doctoral degree (EdD) program and is researching, Cross Boundary Professional Practices Navigating Increasing Interdependencies. She holds an MBA from Villanova University Executive MBA program (’04). She is a Professor of Practice in Leadership and Systems Thinking at Villanova University where she practices across campus in the College of Professional Studies, the College of Nursing, and the College of Engineering. She teaches, Systems Thinking, Consulting and Transformational Leadership to non-traditional undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. She is a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP) and received her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree from The University of Pennsylvania and BSN from The University of Scranton. She also serves on three non-profit boards in the region.