Leadership

Tom Olivo is the founding partner of the consulting firm, Healthcare Performance Solutions (HPS) and the President of Success Profiles, Inc. HPS was formed in 2003 and provides performance management, leadership development and executive coaching services to the healthcare industry. Success Profiles, Inc. was established in 1990 and designs and provides organizational performance measurement instruments and database management services to clients, management consulting firms and professional associations. The company specializes in performance measurement, talent management and succession planning.

In his professional career, Mr. Olivo has over 25 years of experience in identifying, measuring and comparing the “commonalities” of highly successful athletes, business leaders, and organizations. Olivo has worked in a multitude of industries with thousands of senior executives and managers emphasizing the importance of Business Analytics and Getting the Right People in the Right Roles. Success Profiles has measured the business practices of over 1,000 organizations and developed a database of performance criteria that includes over 30,000 individual business units. Tom’s work with Olympic athletes, coaches and successful business leaders led to the development of several unique diagnostic instruments that measure performance. Success Profiles’ methodology combined with a measurement framework and supporting research data prove that consistent success in business today rarely occurs by accident. In fact, there are specific predictors, hard‐wired behaviors and “evidence‐based business practices” that contribute to high performance among people and organizations. These characteristics can be identified, measured, and compared overtime as performance benchmarks to improve business results.

Olivo is the co‐author of Impending Crisis, Too Many Jobs, Too Few People (a Business Best Seller for 2003), Success Simplified (with Dr. Stephen Covey in 2011) and Roadmap to Success (with Dr. Ken Blanchard in 2012). He is considered by business leaders to be an expert in Talent Management and is one of the most requested speakers in the Healthcare industry on the topic of “Quantifying the impact that leadership has on performance outcomes.”

Throughout his life, Olivo has been very involved in competitive athletics. His collegiate career was highlighted twice by being honored as an NCAA All‐American in the sport of Springboard Diving. As a Coach, Olivo has developed athletes at every level of competition and in 1985 he was recognized as NCAA coach of the year.

Tom Olivo lives in Bozeman, Montana with his wife Katie and daughters Sarah and Christine. His personal interests include all forms of outdoor recreation ‐ especially fly‐fishing.

Larry A. Mullins is President and Chief Executive Officer of Samaritan Health Services, Inc., an integrated healthcare system of hospitals, physicians, clinics, health plans and other health operations in Oregon.

A veteran of the US Marine Corps, Dr. Mullins served in South Vietnam with the 26th Marine Regiment and the 1st Dr. Mullins is an active community leader. He received the 1996 Robert C. Ingalls Business Person of the Year award from the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, the 1997 MacEachern CEO Award from the Public Relations Society of America, and the 2001 Newcomer Executive of the Year award from the American Academy of Medical

Administrators. He was recognized by the American Hospital Association as one of its 2007 Grassroots Champions. The Oregon Health Forum honored Dr. Mullins with its Lifetime Leadership Award in 2008. In 2011, he was named Business Leader of the Year by the Lebanon, (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce. Professionally, Dr. Mullins has achieved the designation of Diplomate in Healthcare Administration from the American Academy of Medical Administrators (AAMA). He is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives (ACHE), and has served as Regent and as Oregon Chapter President. He received the ACHE Regent Award for the State of Oregon in 2014. Dr. Mullins is a past chair of the Oregon Association of Hospitals & Healthcare Systems

(OAHHS) and of the Health Systems Governance Council of the American Hospital Association (AHA). He currently serves on the Leadership Committee of the Governing Council of the AHA and is a member of AHA’s Regional Policy Board 9. He also serves on the boards of the Northwest Osteopathic Medical Foundation and the Oregon Health Leadership Council. He has served as Chair of the Paradigm Board of Directors since its inception in 2003. Paradigm is a medical malpractice insurance company. In addition, he previously served on Oregon’s Adverse Healthcare Incidents Task Force and the Oregon Foundation for Medical Excellence.

Dr. Mullins previously co-chaired Oregon’s Emergency Support Function 8 Policy Group, which advises on policies and planning regarding the full range of emergency activities encompassed by the Oregon Emergency Response Plan. He participated in the Air Force War College as part of the National Security Forum and was appointed by former Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski to serve as a member of the Homeland Security Council of the State of Oregon. Dr. Mullins received a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University, a Master’s degree from Northern Arizona University, and a Doctor of Health Administration degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. The topic of his doctoral dissertation was organizational change and crisis leadership. He was awarded an honorary degree from Linn-Benton Community College in 2007 and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Western University of Health Sciences in 2008. In 2009, Dr. Mullins received the Dwight Patterson Alumnus of the Year award from the Northern Arizona University Alumni Association. He is an Adjunct Faculty member in the College of Health & Human Sciences at Oregon State University and serves on the Leadership Council of the College of Health and Human Services at Northern Arizona University. He is a Professorial Lecturer at George Washington University in the Department of Health Services Management and Leadership. He has published articles on integrated health networks, health care reform, and hospital/physician relations.

Stephen G. Morrissette is the Managing Director of Providence Advisors, Inc. a provider of comprehensive strategic advisory services to Boards of Directors as well as CEOs and controlling owners/investors. He has extensive expertise in banking as a director, CEO, and CFO and healthcare industry experience including roles as trustee, board chair, hospital treasurer and advisor on medical practice mergers, acquisitions, and sales. He has published several articles on banking and healthcare M&A. He is an Associate Professor at the University of St. Francis where his teaching includes healthcare finance and he is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he teaches the M&A Strategy course in the MBA program. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D.

President of Pete Lien & Sons, Inc. since 1996, Pete and his family have led the mining industry in realizing the concept of shared value creation through environmental protection and sustainability. Pete has received scores of conservation and environmental stewardship awards while maintaining a profitable and growing enterprise which employs hundreds of citizens in the local communities in which Pete Lien & Sons operates.

Pete is a graduate of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University: YPO Presidents Program and of Arizona State University business college.

He was a member of the Young President’s Organization 1990-2009 and now belongs to WPO. Pete currently serves on the Bishops Advisory Board for the Diocese of Rapid City, SD and is a trustee of the USAF Academy Falcon Foundation. He is a member and participant of the Rocky Mountain Wild Horse Racing Association/American Wild Horse Racing Association and is pleased to be a Certified National Beer Judge by the American Home Brewers Association.

Jack R. Blair has a wealth of international business experience. Mr. Blair served in various capacities with Smith & Nephew PLC and Richards Medical Company, which was acquired by Smith & Nephew in 1986. Most recently, he was Group President of Smith & Nephew’s North and South American and Japanese operations (1986-1998) and held the position of President of Richards Medical Company (1982-1986). Until November 2007, when the company was sold, Mr. Blair served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of DJO Inc., an orthopedic medical device company. He also serves as a director of NuVasive, Inc., a publicly held Spinal Surgery Company, and is Chairman of The Campbell Clinic Foundation of Memphis, TN.  Mr. Blair holds a B.A. in Government from Miami University and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.