Katie Clift

About Katie Clift

I am a strategic healthcare leader with over 15 years of experience in program and product management, change management, and analytics in the healthcare industry. I excel in driving strategic initiatives, fostering collaboration, and implementing sustainable solutions in an accelerated way by honoring the intersection of people, processes, and technology. My intrapreneurial achievements include leading multi-year cloud analytics transformation initiatives and scaling geographic information systems at Kaiser Permanente. I believe deeply in Kaiser Permanente’s approach to well-being and am committed to helping reach more people through strategic planning, financial acumen, and continuous performance improvement by assuming a leadership role with broader scope and impact. I began my career in the technology industry, am an artisan in my free time, and once met Quincy Jones in real life.

Experience

1. Director, Data Reporting & Analytics

   Kaiser Permanente

   Jan 2018 — Present · Portland, OR, US

   Challenge: Handpicked to build relationships with analytic leaders, establish a scalable intake process, and create and implement a strategy to capture, vet, and socialize emerging standards as part of a multi-year, multi-million-dollar cloud analytics transformation.Significant contributor to multiple large, strategic cloud analytics transformation initiatives. Built relationships with analytic leaders, established scalable processes, and implemented strategies for capturing and socializing emerging standards. Consulted on multi-million-dollar budgets and contributed to significant increases in forecasted benefits. Developed business partner-centric approaches and established advisory groups to facilitate development and adoption of standards. Scaled program and department portfolio management, communications, and talent development offerings.ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS:• Strategic Program Management: Revised portfolio strategy and roadmap as part of updated multi-million-dollar business cases. Developed and championed a business partner-centric approach to analytic product intake and marketing. Established advisory groups to increase awareness and facilitate development and adoption of standards. • Financial Acumen: Managed a $xM annual budget and team of staff and consultants. Strategic contributions to increases in forecasted benefits and return of allocated investment through application of flow principles.• Innovation and Collaboration: Developed an opportunity brief the Responsible AI Quality Assurance Lab and advised relaunch of KP Insight Flawless Consulting. Led adoption of product model and product marketing. Product manager for COVID Financials dashboard.• Talent Development: People Pulse scores are consistently higher than in my department and finance organizations.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Professional Education, Applied Generative AI for Digital Transformation

• University of Delaware

  BS, Environmental Science, Art (Ceramics), Spanish

  1995 — 1999

• Portland State University

  Master's degree, Systems Science

  2016 — 2019

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• Arcgis
• Leadership
• Business Analysis
• Gis
• Team Leadership
• Healthcare
• Esri
• Data Analysis
• Software
• Management