As a Senior Financial and Operations Executive, Ken Lester has a background in cultivating synergistic effects across entire organizations to spearhead change management. Ken makes organizations successful by managing complex budgets, developing and executing strategy, and drive comprehensive roadmaps with ironclad alignment . As a transformational management leader, he has implemented and led multiple cross-functional teams and system executives on turnaround and improvement strategies. Ken is driven and passionate about executing complex and holistic financial and operational roadmaps, improving market share capture and increasing organization productivity.

✅ Configured the entire Board of Directors, wrote the Board Bylaws, implemented Board Committees. Recruited, conducted education, and operationalized a strong and successful Board of Directors.

✅ Responsible for managing complex and intricate budgets in excess of a billion dollars through executive oversight including operations, strategy and planning, budgeting, and reporting.

✅ Implement and lead multiple cross-functional teams and system executives to execute on turn-around/improvement strategies, improving the realization rate by 4% (driving $2.5M in cash improvement) and reducing back-end denial rates by 70%+

✅ Acted as the Senior Executive and Financial/Operations Expert, overseeing a $650M non-profit operation with 79 locations, 52 service lines, and an accounting suite of 1250 high-performance staff members

✅ Leveraged systemic improvements to finances and operational strategy, increasing productivity by 30%, quality and safety outcomes by 25%, and customer satisfaction by 30%, accelerating the profitability by over 50%.

✅ Executed complex and holistic financial and operational roadmaps and change management in synergy with each other, improving the market share capture from 45% to 56% and increasing patient visits by 198% (500K) annually.

Enriching the lives of others is central to our objectives. Understanding the importance of every individual as part of a functioning team. Ken’s career has been in designing operational models that improve productivity and quality and results in doubling staff engagement. Teams can work effectively at the top of their skill set delivering highly effective and efficient results. To build a legacy of success a foundation for the future.