An experienced healthcare advisor, communicator and facilitator, Linzie Treadway helps leaders and teams navigate complex change by building alignment, strengthening trust and translating strategy into action.
Her work is grounded in a belief that successful transformation depends as much on the human experience of change as it does on the strategy itself – helping people understand what is changing, why it matters and how they fit into what comes next. She advises academic health systems and healthcare organizations on change leadership, strategic communications, leadership alignment and engagement, helping people move through transformation with greater clarity, confidence and connection.
At Jarrard, Treadway partners with leaders during significant organizational shifts to understand the needs and perspectives of people affected by change, develop change and communication strategies and equip leaders and teams to carry change forward. Her work includes designing and facilitating leadership workshops and working sessions, developing tools and messaging that help leaders communicate through complexity and ambiguity and creating opportunities to practice and reinforce the skills and behaviors that support change over time. She brings particular expertise in helping leaders connect enterprise strategy to the day-to-day experience of employees, clinicians and others affected by change.
Treadway joined Jarrard after nearly two decades as a strategic communicator, change agent and healthcare and higher education leader at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Throughout her career, she has led initiatives spanning strategic planning, organizational change, behavioral health, social determinants of health, community engagement and inclusive excellence.
Treadway holds a master’s degree from Emory University and a doctorate from Vanderbilt University in religious studies, with an emphasis on civilizations of the ancient world, storytelling and collective imagination.
Worth Knowing
- Has a flock of backyard chickens named after iconic women in hip-hop
- Loves the Enneagram and has provided coaching around it
- Votes cheese over chocolate every time
