Sharon Confessore

Sharon Confessore is a learning and change leader with extensive experience in identifying, developing and implementing strategies, best practices and standards for building organizational and individual capacity to meet business imperatives.  As an innovative leader and strategist in health care organizations and a skilled coach and thought partner to executive leaders, she has lead corporate wide transformation efforts including learning and change efforts associated with EPIC installs in both ambulatory and acute settings, created clinician leadership programs and executed a corporate wide assessment and redesign of a learning enterprise of over 25,000 staff and clinicians to maximize use of virtual learning that resulted in significant cost savings and training time requirements.

Sharon created a corporate-wide physician leadership strategy and implemented programs and experiences for physician leaders at all levels, including CMOs and high potential early career physicians in two organizations. Over 200 physicians completed programs  in change leadership, team effectiveness, the business of healthcare and executive presence.  

Sharon’s varied career in both healthcare and academia allows her to leverage her passion for learning to challenge others to think differently, see new possibilities and then act to create results in the healthcare space.  Her favorite experiences involve combining evidence based data and robust dialogue  to collectively create solutions that are different, practical and effective.

Sharon’s professional experience includes Chief Learning Officer at Bon Secours Health System in Marriottsville MD, and at Kaiser Kaiser Permanente, Mid Atlantic States, and George Washington University.  She has co-authored a book on self-directed learning and completed numerous articles and presentations focusing on leadership development, learning systems design, and change management .    She lives with her husband Gary in Rockville MD, where she enjoys gardening and her daily runs.