Dianne H. Timmering

Dianne H. Timmering, MBA, MFA, CNA, American Writer and Journalist, Healthcare Executive, Strategic Business Advisor, Start-up Entrepreneur with sustainable ventures launched from ideation to implementation; a transformative leader, M&A contributor, national and local policy changer, spirituality "innovator," author, columnist, board member and builder of health and Virtual Care entities. A systems thinker, she has the pounding quest to create, embrace risk, test knowledge and look outside, inside the balance of logic and imagination to build, sustain, scale and transform. With decades of enterprise-wide experience and executive range, she helped build a billion dollar company through operational leadership, disruptive technological innovation, strategic boldness, crisis management, and key alliance development. She co-founded many entities including the Spirituality/Compassion Fund pillar, meeting the needs of thousands, & served as SR VP of HealthCare Policy & Legislative Affairs for Signature HealthCARE, one of the largest post-acute providers in U.S. with revenues of $1B+, operating in 11 states at its peak. Bold and enduring, she is an effective leader with direct impact, taking on projects and co-creating businesses that require strategic design, fearless resilience, achieved performance benchmarks and tactical maneuvering resulting in revenue generation, unique workforce benefits, including corporate growth and expansion. Her list of clients includes Reliq Health, Premier Workforce Solutions, Signature HealthCARE, K2 Solutions, BehaVR, the Louisville Healthcare CEO Council, PharMerica, and BrightSpring Health Services.

She has received awards including one from McKnight's for healthcare tech excellence, and was a feature contributing writer for numerous publications including Louisville Business First, Medical News, MedCityNews, McKnight's Long Term Care News, Tops Magazine, Business First on-line, and others. The spirituality movement she co-founded was nationally recognized as an innovative paradigm shift in care delivery in Long-Term Living Magazine, Business First Weekly, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Indianapolis Star, the Oregonian, Louisville Magazine, the Cincinnati Inquirer, Delaware Online, the Newark Advocate and others.

In 2022, she hiked 100km of the El Camino in northern Spain, in 2016, ran the NYC Marathon, in 2014, hiked in 4 days the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, and in 2009, the Milford Trek in New Zealand. She is also co-publisher of a research paper in 2011 on Spiritualty and Its Value-Added Impact on Care Delivery and Revenue in healthcare. She is publishing her first novel, her third book, in 2023 called Guardian Moon which she originally debuted in Sofia Bulgaria. She is proud to be a co-author of the anthology You Can You Will published in 2023.

Education: Executive MBA in Health Sector Management and Policy, University of Miami, 2013

Master of Fine Arts, Fiction Writing, Spalding University, 2005

Bachelor of Arts, Communication and Business, Cum Laude, Vanderbilt University, 1986

Certified Nursing Assistant, Spalding University, 2012