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Bill Henry
Consultant

Bill Henry is president of ForeSight Strategy Associates in St. Paul, Minnesota, a consulting company focused on developing the governance and management capacity of nonprofit organizations, especially those in healthcare. ForeSight's work includes developing new or merged governance structures, enhancing board performance, improving relationships between boards and their CEOs, strategic planning, and preparing boards to undertake new strategic directions.

Bill's education includes a master's degree in organizational psychology and completion of the coursework for the PhD in healthcare administration. He teaches governance in ISP, the University of Minnesota's executive study program in healthcare administration, and directed the University's Trustee Education Program for several years. He has conducted research in healthcare governance, and written a number of articles and book chapters on the topic. He also serves as a consultant to the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, facilitating strategic planning efforts of the Division of Healthcare Management and the Program in Healthcare Administration. He has served on a number of boards, including 5 years as chair of the Gillette Children's Hospital board, and two terms as president of the Metro Hospital Trustee Council.

Bill has worked with Family Philanthropy Advisors in several areas. He has provided capacity building assistance to several grantees of client foundations, especially in governance development and strategic planning. He has worked with families to achieve consensus on the strategic direction of their philanthropy and on the structure and process of their decision making relative to that philanthropy, and has coached family members in effective approaches to governance in their roles as board members in nonprofit organizations. He has assessed prospective grantees, and consulted on the design of various philanthropic efforts.

Bill has played key roles in the evolution of the Bravewell Collaborative, especially in the Collaborative's effort to map the emerging field of integrative medicine. He managed the first phase of that effort, a study of the opinions on integrative medicine of a number of thought leaders, and he conducted the second and third phases – studies of the emergence of integrative medicine in community institutions and of the effect of emerging consumer directed health plans on access to integrative medicine.

Bill has conducted research on the psychosocial problems of family practice residents (in the UofM Medical School), home care for children dying of cancer (in the School of Nursing), rural-to-urban migration (for the U.S. Department of Labor), poverty and other social issues. He was chief operating officer of the International Diabetes Center for nine years, during which he led the development of collaborative diabetes management programs in the USSR, Austria and the Republic of China.