Sharon M. Flynn Hollander

Clifford R. Hollander, Ph.D.

Sharon M. Flynn Hollander

   

Sharon M. Flynn Hollander is Executive Vice President (EVP), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Lead for the Executive Search Consultancy Practice for The Hollander Group.  She has developed a national executive search practice in a wide variety of not-for-profit sectors. Areas of special expertise include mission driven organizations of all types with primary emphasis on higher education and healthcare.  Sharon’s Executive Search Consultancy Practice emphasizes senior leadership search in organizations with a special need for executives who combine vision, fiscal strength, innovation and leadership.

Prior to entering the executive search field, Ms. Flynn Hollander spent more than 25 years in healthcare in executive, clinical, managerial and consulting roles. She began her career in nursing, where she gained an in-depth understanding of the healthcare delivery system and the delicate balance between high quality care, service and financial goals.  Later, she held a number of positions in nursing and healthcare at the University of Chicago Hospitals & Clinics in Chicago and at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park, Illinois.  Upon moving to California, Sharon embarked upon a nine-year career as an executive at Stanford University Hospital, where she served as a director of nursing and as an associate hospital director.  In 1997, she was recruited to be the chief executive officer of Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, where she remained until 2000 when she embarked upon executive search. Her entire career was based in academic settings.  Her search portfolio in higher education has encompassed a large number of Chair, Dean, Vice Provost, Vice Chancellor and Provost searches.  In healthcare Sharon's expertise is in physician recruitment and healthcare executive recruitment, at levels of director and above.  Sharon also specializes in not-for-profit executive search.

 

Sharon’s expertise, which she transitioned from executive leadership to search, emphasizes helping empower institutions across a wide range of sectors and fiscal conditions to maximize outcomes via tailored combinations of innovative leadership and management restructuring, cost containment, revenue generation and operational infrastructure renovation. As a clinician and administrator, Sharon led with a passion for quality and service, consistently selecting executives and teams who share that passion. Having served in major academic institutions, Sharon adds a deep understanding of universities and medical centers to her broad background in all areas of management and in institutions of varying sizes, public and private.  These experiences afforded her technical, managerial and finance expertise, which she has brought to bear upon executive search.

Sharon’s academic credentials include a Master in Management degree from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, a Master of Nursing Management degree from Loyola University in Chicago and a Bachelor of Nursing degree from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Dr. Clifford R. Hollander

   

Dr. Clifford R. Hollander is President, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Lead for the Information & Communications Systems Consultancy Practice and Associate Lead for the Executive Search Consultancy Practice of The Hollander Group.  He established The Hollander Group in 1985 and has molded into highly successful international consultancy that combines: (1) lifecycle management and technical consulting services for very large scale information & communications system R&D projects and (2) recruitment consulting for senior level personnel to fill key roles on such projects and the organizations which undertake them on behalf of government and commercial customers. Clifford’s Executive Search Consultancy Practice work complements his Information & Communications Systems Consultancy Practice work, particularly on search engagements to which his vast experience and sourcing networks can be opportunistically applied. Areas of special expertise include government, academic and commercial organizations with strong technology-related enterprises often in combination with business operations.

Prior to and in synergy with his involvement with the Executive Search Consultancy Practice at The Hollander Group, Dr. Hollander has more than thirty years experience in helping organizations with medium- to very large-scale, mission-critical projects in a wide variety of corporate, government and public environments.  Typical engagements, which invariably entail substantive amounts recruitment responsibilities (as noted above) involve various combinations of advanced communications networking, information brokering and web-based intermediation.  More than 150 clients have utilized Hollander to provide high-leverage consulting services that blend his deep technical knowledge and abilities with his exceptional organizational and inter-personal skills, maturity and ability to function effectively and rapidly in a wide range of situations.

 

Clifford’s role in engagements has entailed facilitating all aspects of project life cycle processes, including the recruitment and retention of key personnel on behalf of stakeholder organizations and their most demanding projects.  Oftentimes, Dr. Hollander’s primary assignments have focused upon architecture and design, internal and external interfaces, protocols and standards, technology evaluation and insertion, integration and evolution. This deep-seated experience continues to engender rich knowledge bases pertaining to technical and business content, as well as extensive contact networks that can be exploited for recruitment purposes.
Hollander holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University, a Master of Science degree also from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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