In two years as CEO of the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), Maria Ghazal has grown membership 40%.The 35-year-old group is a membership organization: neither a trade association nor a professional society. A good comparison is the Business Roundtable, where Ghazal worked for 19 years, the last seven as senior vice president and counsel.HLC now has more than 50 senior executive members representing diverse segments of the health care industry, which are sometimes at odds with each other. Traditionally, members included executives of hospitals, insurance companies, and drug and device makers. To achieve such growth, she improved the member experience by broadening membership eligibility,… Read More