Stabilize Staffing.

Optimize Operations.

Transform Leaders.

ABOUT


Cory Geffre spent more than three decades inside hospitals, the last decade as VP in charge of Hospital Operations in rural PPS hospitals. In his most recent role, he led the integration and operational improvement of a critical access hospital. He's also served as a Chief Nursing Officer, so he knows both sides of the building: the clinical floor and the operational seat. And from that operational seat, he watched the same thing happen over and over... some of the best clinical leaders in the building were handed operational roles and expected to run them like seasoned business operators. Nobody ever taught them how. And that performance gap quietly cost the whole organization.

Now Cory takes the lesson on how to close that gap to the stage. He helps audiences stabilize staffing, optimize operations, and transform good clinical leaders into high performing hospital operators who can get results that last. He's the author of Lead Your People and the soon-to-be-published Stabilize. Optimize. Anchor. He consults with hospitals on operations, writes two LinkedIn newsletters, creates videos for nurse leaders, and speaks across the country on healthcare. Everything he teaches comes back to one stubborn belief... the fix only matters if it sticks.

BOOKS

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Lead Your People

A Framework for Leadership Success

Are you ready to discover a framework for exceptional leadership?

Drawing on decades as a healthcare executive, Cory Geffre distills hard-learned wisdom into a roadmap for inspiring, empowering, and guiding your team to new heights of quality, satisfaction, and financial performance.


Rooted in real-world experience, this guide walks you through the five essential skills of leadership mastery: developing people, managing performance, building teams, improving operations, and achieving results.

With candor and clarity, Geffre deconstructs the myths and offers pragmatic strategies for the toughest challenges leaders face.

Whether you're a manager, director, executive, or aspiring leader, "Lead Your People" is your plainspoken playbook for unlocking extraordinary potential.

FORTHCOMING

STABILZE. OPTIMIZE. ANCHOR.

The Definitive Guide to Modern Hospital Operations

Your hospital isn't broken. It's unbuilt.

Drawing on a decade of hospital leadership across facilities from 25 to 267 beds, Cory Geffre hands operators a precise, tested build sequence for the operating system nobody ever finished... a step-by-step method for reversing margin erosion, developing leadership talent, and building a hospital that consistently performs.

Its logic is unforgiving: Stabilize. Optimize. Anchor. Cure the foundation before raising the pillars, beginning with a proven staffing method that ends negotiation-based staffing for good. Performance, Geffre shows, is the result of an environment, not an act of will. Stop fixing what's broken. Start finishing what was never built.

SPEAKING

Keynote Speaking and Conference Presentations:

  • South Dakota Health Care Association

  • New Mexico Health Care Association

  • South Dakota SHRM Conference

  • Iowa Rural Health Collaborative

  • South Dakota Healthcare Financial Management Association

  • International Association of Workforce Professionals

  • What’s Right in Healthcare Conference

  • Vizient Connections Summit

  • Iowa Hospital Association

  • North Dakota Hospital Association

  • Dakota Conference on Rural Health

Cory's newsletters

Written operator to operator, for the executives running hospitals under real pressure. Practical, specific thinking on staffing, throughput, workforce, and leadership... grounded in the actual work, sharpened for the people who actually own the outcomes.

Honest, practical thinking

for nurse leaders and other clinical leaders finding their footing. Real talk on difficult conversations, leading former peers, and building the confidence to trust your own judgment... from someone who has been there.

NEWSLETTER

HOSPITAL OPERATIONS LETTER

Written operator to operator, for the executives running hospitals under real pressure. Practical, specific thinking on staffing, throughput, workforce, and leadership... grounded in the actual work, sharpened for the people who actually own the outcomes.

NEWSLETTER

THE CONFIDENT NURSE LEADER

Honest, practical thinking for nurse leaders and other clinical leaders finding their footing. Real talk on difficult conversations, leading former peers, and building the confidence to trust your own judgment... from someone who has been there.

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Helping rural and community hospitals stabilize staffing, optimize operations, and transform clinical leaders into hospital operators.

Helping rural and community hospitals stabilize staffing, optimize operations, and transform clinical leaders into hospital operators.

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