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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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