Lea Chatham

About Lea Chatham

With an extensive record of engagement, growth, and profitability, my success stems from my expertise in moving leading healthcare and healthcare tech companies forward. LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY Throughout my career, I have earned accolades for performance and expertise in creating persuasive content, branding, and digital marketing campaigns as well as communications and public relations in healthcare and health IT. Innovate high-impact strategies, transition objectives into actionable plans, and execute strategies to exceed client expectations. Drive growth and spark interest by delivering compelling communications, messaging, and lead generation strategies; embody a “think like a customer” approach to expand revenue streams and generate multimillion-dollar growth. Fuel progress by assembling, developing, and leading teams to high performance. Set the vision and direction and drive staff and agencies in executing end-to-end marketing strategies; motivate teams to exceed expectations and objectives.SIGNIFICANT WINSI’ve ensured teams have remained focused on objectives and goals; through dynamic leadership, I’ve challenged teams to consistently achieve excellence. Formulated plans that boosted brand awareness with more than 50-100 media mentions and placements a year for each company including executive interviews and bylines. Spearheaded buyer-journey-based content and lead generation initiatives and event programs that generated hundreds of net new leads each month at each company with higher-than-average conversion rates. Innovated strategies that propelled nurture email open rates from less than 10% to over 35%. Realized a dramatic impact by executing a customer loyalty program with 500 advocates that supplied upward of 300 sales references, 350 software reviews, and 100 customer testimonials. Earned software and innovation awards as well as industry recognition from analysts and key organizations, including KLAS, Black Book, Fast Company, AVIA, G2, Gartner, Digital Health Awards, Health 2.0, eHealthcare Leadership Awards for each company.

Experience

1. Director Enterprise Marketing

   Heidi

   Jul 2025 — Present · Livingston, MT, US

   Heidi is building an AI Care Partner to expand clinical capacity by automating administrative work—documentation, form filling, and task management—so clinicians can focus on patients. Used across emergency departments, general practice, and specialist clinics, Heidi supports more than 2 million consults each week in 110 languages from 116 countries. It\'s my job to make every hospital and health systems in the US aware of Heidi. Founded in 2019 in Melbourne, Heidi has been product-led and grown through grassroots physician adoption. As a result, Heidi sees adoption at 60-80% across even the largest healthcare organizations where most other scribes see 20-40%. If you want to know why message me and let\'s talk.

Education

• San Diego State University

  Creative Writing

  1997 — 1999

• San Francisco State University

  BA, English