Christine Cress

Director, Nurse Workforce & Leadership Development Sutter Health

Christine Cress is a director of a highly productive, highly positive talent management function for the largest clinical workforce at Sutter Health, based in Northern California. A skilled executive coach and Stanford-trained facilitator, Christine has led inter-disciplinary teams to create functions and company programs where they did not exist before. She has been named honorary nurse by her nurse executive colleagues and is a strategic business partner generating results that require no marketing spin. Once naturally brunette, Christine is surprisingly humorous on occasion and blends mind, heart, and business to her practice as a healthcare leader. She brings to you the insights of 18 years in healthcare, --partnering with finance, supply chain, clinicians, and HR  to serve those who take care of our patients.