By offering a suite of transitional leadership solutions to the healthcare industry, Warbird TLS provides compelling value to its strategic partners. Primarily focused on C-Suite and senior leadership roles, leveraging transitional resourcing together with direct placement assignments helps clients achieve a comprehensive approach to these talent needs.
Cornerstones of Expertise
Warbird’s advisors are deeply committed to improving healthcare operations and outcomes. Inherent to our expertise as advisors in performance improvement, we collaborate with your team and align with your vision while seamlessly integrating into your organization to achieve strategic outcomes.
Our Transitional Leaders are proven experts who excel in navigating complex healthcare challenges. This allows Warbird to provide stability while driving tangible improvements across the organization in clinical, operational, and financial areas.
Our process is designed to support rapid deployment. We partner with you to quickly identify the right Transitional Leader who best suits your culture and has the experience to implement impactful solutions for any identified challenges.
More than simply providing coverage for a vacancy, Warbird’s transitional leaders focus on achieving sustainability while preparing your organization for future success. We have the flexibility to scale resources to fit where you need us most, and as we conclude our engagement, our team will collaborate closely with you to ensure a smooth leadership transition. This way, any ongoing projects or strategic initiatives remain on track.
Warbird’s Transitional Leadership Solutions Engagements
All Other Warbird Engagements
Warbird has partnered with healthcare organizations to deliver results-driven solutions that address the most pressing strategic, financial, and operational challenges those organizations face.
Our professionals have advised and served clients in
over 1200 engagements across 48 states.
Richard has spent the past 30 years of his career serving as a Human Resources, Talent Acquisition and Operations management leader. Now serving as the Executive Vice President of Warbird’s Transitional Leadership Solutions, Richard advises Healthcare clients on their C-level transitional leadership needs.
Professional Accomplishments
• Prior to joining Warbird, Richard served as an HR Director for the Huron Consulting Group and supported the Accounting Advisory practice, which is now Warbird Consulting Partners. Prior to that, he spent five years as a Consultant with a Human Resources professional services firm called Flex HR. In this role, Richard assisted numerous industry-diverse clients with a broad range of HR, talent and leadership needs. As an advisor to Executive Management, Richard guided his clients to recognize the value and realize the tangible benefits of building a strategic HR function and implementing HR best practices across a full spectrum of HR matters
• Prior to his career as an HR Consultant, Richard served as the HR Director for several start-ups and fast paced, rapidly evolving multi-location organizations within the telecommunications, professional services, and manufacturing sectors. In each of these positions he was part of the senior management team, reported to the CEO and implemented innovative ideas and solutions designed to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Throughout his career, Richard has focused on leadership development as the critical path to organizational effectiveness. He first began teaching leadership courses in 1982 while serving as an instructor at the Fort Knox.
• Since then, Richard has provided leadership development training and consulting in every organization where he has been employed or engaged. Believing there is an imperative need for authentic leadership, in addition to serving as Warbird’s CAO and EVP of its Transitional Leadership Solutions, he conducts leadership development training through keynote speeches, workshops and individual leadership development consulting services to Warbird Healthcare Advisors clients.
For over 20 years, Sharon has been a demonstrated leader in various aspects of talent acquisition, client relationship management, and team leadership. She is a nimble and tenacious problem solver, able to successfully juggle multiple priorities and projects simultaneously with outstanding execution. Now serving as Client Partnership Director for Warbird Healthcare, Sharon, with the support of Warbird’s team of healthcare practitioners, works to provide solutions to common challenges within a health system environment, including Transitional Leadership Solutions, Performance Improvement, and Revenue Cycle Optimization.
Professional Accomplishments
• Lead national search engagements for healthcare systems, including CEO, CFO, COO, SVP, VP, and Director-level positions across multiple disciplines: Clinical Administration, Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain, Managed Care, Revenue Cycle, and Health Information Management.
• Develop and nurture relationships with new and existing clients, ensuring strong execution to achieve stated goals.
• Conduct extensive research to determine passive and active talent in the industry with relevant experience for senior-level opportunities.
• Onboard Transitional Executive Leaders ensuring these newly hired advisors meet Warbird’s rigorous standards, including background checks, drug tests, and references.
• Ensure HR best practices through implementing process improvements and the ongoing development of staff.
• Ensure corporate EEOC compliance, completing mandatory annual reporting.
• Led the successful system migration from iCIMS to Crelate, creating better efficiencies in talent acquisition, onboarding, and relationship management. Ongoing management of the system for data integrity.
Master of Healthcare Administration – Louisiana State University – 2026
Bachelor Degree, Managerial Science – Georgia State University
Certification, General & Civil Mediation – The University of Georgia
Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Member, American College of Healthcare Executives
Agnes is a resourceful and efficient recruiter with over 15 years combined experience in Healthcare and Big Pharma Talent Acquisition. She’s adept at identifying the right resources to bridge the talent gap for employers. As Client Partnership Director of Warbird’s interim healthcare advisory practice, Agnes is passionate about placing and managing top-notch advisors to leverage their diverse expertise in solving complex Revenue Cycle Management and Finance problems for hospitals and physician practices across the US.
Representative Profiles
Since joining the Warbird team in 2014, Agnes has contributed significantly to placing consultants for Financial Turnaround, Performance Improvement, and transitional leadership roles in various healthcare settings. Representative roles include:
Email: ABarnor@warbirdcp.com
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Social Sciences – Kwame Nkrumah’ University of Science and Technoloy
Certificate, Strategic HR Leadership – Cornell University
PHR Certification – Kennesaw State University
Certification in Human Resource Management – Kennesaw State University