Carson F. Dye, FACHE

Executive Search

• Provide customized search for leaders
• Review and assess internal candidates
• Reduce the risk of hiring mistakes through more focused and objective assessment
• Help manage recruitment and selection processes

Physician Leadership Development

• Help organizations design and establish physician leadership development programs
• Assist new physician leaders in enhancing their effectiveness
• Help organizations build effective physician leadership structures
• Provide customized leadership development programs for physicians
• Teach leadership courses in physician leadership development programs

Leadership Assessment

• Help organizations reduce the risk of hiring mistakes when hiring leaders
• Assist organizations in designing more effective recruitment and hiring processes
• Help organizations better define leadership requirements for recruitment, promotion, and succession planning situations
• Design competency-based behavioral interviews to enhance the interview process
• Assess the effectiveness of leaders
• Provide an objective external review of finalist candidates
• Provide methodologies to help increase objectivity in assessing and hiring leaders

Team Effectiveness

• Assess teams in building team effectiveness

Position Development

• Assist organizations in position design; provide bench-marking comparisons to other organizations

Succession Planning

• Help organizations develop succession plans and identify & develop high potential leaders

Leadership Development

• Help organizations identify leadership derailers that may cause leaders to fail
• Provide objective coaching and counsel for leaders

Board and CEO Relations

• Help boards design and conduct CEO evaluations
• Board retreat facilitation

Carson offers clients extensive experience in leadership counsel including succession/transition planning, executive leadership assessment, CEO evaluation, and retreat facilitation. He is certified to use the Hogan Leadership Assessment tests for assessment, coaching, and leadership development. He has had extensive experience working with physician leaders.

Carson has served as an executive search consultant and partner with 3 large search firms including Witt/Kieffer, TMP Worldwide, and LAI/Lamalie Associates in Cleveland. Earlier in his career, Carson also was partner and director of Findley Davies, Inc.’s healthcare consulting division in Toledo. He has had twenty years experience in healthcare provider administration, having served as vice president at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Clermont County Hospital, both in Cincinnati.

Carson has been a regular faculty member for the American College of Healthcare Executives since 1987 and teaches in their Board of Governors Exam prep course. He also serves as a faculty member of The Governance Institute and currently holds faculty appointments at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and The Ohio State University. He has authored nine books including two ACHE Book of the Year winners, Developing Physician Leaders for Successful Clinical Integration (2013) and Leadership Values (2001). He has also authored Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values & Skills, 2nd Edition (2010); Exceptional Leadership – 16 Critical Competencies, 2nd Edition (2015); Winning the Talent War (2001); and Protocols for Healthcare Executive Behavior (1993). His leadership competency model developed for the Exceptional Leadership book has been used extensively for assessment and executive selection.