Healthcare Leadership Trends for 2025
Key Findings Forty-three percent consider their ability to attract quality leadership candidates to be extremely or very challenging, a five-point improvement over last year. Organizational size is a factor: 50% for small, 46% for medium-sized, and 33% for large hospitals. Forty-six percent of leaders intend to leave their organization within twelve months. Almost three-fourths have been approached with a job opportunity in the past six months, and 17% pursued it. Leadership is rated as highly engaged at twice the level of nurses and doctors. This significant leadership- clinician gap has persisted through previous Trends surveys. Technology leadership roles in IT, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence made strong gains to place second through fourth in the ranking of roles growing most in importance this year. Leaders projected the timeline on which AI would change healthcare managerial work at meaningful scale: 13% this year, 46% in 2-3 years, 27% over 3 years, and 14% no change expected. The percentage of respondents anticipating better organizational health this year than last decreased 19 points to 34%. “No change” doubled to 48%.
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