Kendra Calhoun

About Kendra Calhoun

Seasoned health care leadership spanning health system, academic health care, health…

Experience

1. Senior Vice President Marketing, Communications Pr & Digital Experience

   Avera Health

   Sep 2013 — Present

   Chief marketplace strategist focused on deepening relationships with patients, members, employees, and communities. Leads Avera’s efforts to identify what health care consumers need and expect from Avera, and to evolve the organization’s capability to create and deliver consistent, consumer-centric, digitally enabled experiences that cultivate, engage, and retain the consumer over their lifetime. Serves as a senior advisor to high-level decisions regarding strategic direction, organizational growth, community relations and operational effectiveness. Leads community engagement, patient engagement, and internal engagement strategies. Leads physician, employee, member and governance communications to build engagement, support retention and create brand champions across a large geographically distributed health system. Ensures public relations strategies cultivate and enhance meaningful relationships that advance the organization’s position with relevant constituents, as well as drive broader awareness and donor support for the organization.

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Budgets
• Public Relations
• Communications
• Organizational Development
• Community Development
• Nonprofits
• Event Planning
• Social Media
• Research
• Marketing Strategy
• Strategy
• Event Management
• Training
• Grant Writing
• Business Development
• Program Management
• Government Relations
• Program Development
• Policy Analysis
• Policy
• Healthcare
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Public Affairs
• Non-Profits
• Public Policy
• Team Building
• Strategic Communications
• Community Outreach
• Leadership Development
• Project Management
• Management
• Media Relations
• Marketing
• Fundraising
• Hospitals
• Philanthropy
• Internal Communications