A Dynamic, Collaborative Learning Community for Health Care Executives and Their Teams

​The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Leadership Alliance is a dynamic collaboration of health care executives who share a goal to work with one another as well as in partnership with our patients, workforces, and communities to deliver on the full promise of the IHI Triple Aim.

Alliance Members share generously with one another, confident that by collaborating and learning together, we can individually and collectively get better, faster.

At this critical moment, health care needs leaders with the courage to imagine, design, and scale new models of innovation, collaboration, and governance that can push health care beyond its traditional limits.

The Leadership Alliance provides that space for leaders to transform and innovate health care together and we are committed to rebuilding healthcare from the inside out.

The 2025–2026 IHI Leadership Alliance membership year begins in October 2025.

Read the TIME article by Donald. M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE, IHI President Emeritus, Senior Fellow, and Senior Advisor to the IHI Leadership Alliance, American Health Care Is Broken. Major Hospitals Need to Be Part of the Solution.
 

Who Should Join

The IHI Leadership Alliance welcomes organizations from across the United States — health care organizations and systems, primary care organizations, professional and hospital associations, industry groups, and others — that believe that sharing and learning with each other and partnering with patients, workforces, and communities can help us individually and collectively reimagine and redesign health and health care, better and faster.

We recommend organizations: 

• Have commitments from the highest levels of organizational leadership that delivering on the full promise of the Triple Aim is of strategic importance
• Are willing to share generously and commit the time and resources required to meaningfully engage in developin​​​g, testing, implementing, and measuring care redesign efforts
• Are fully committed to moving from talking to doing, from aspiring to achieving​

Leadership Alliance Membership Benefits

• Unmatched senior leadership engagement across all Alliance virtual programming and communications, described by current members as the most distinctive and valuable benefit: the opportunity to meaningfully engage diverse leaders from across their own organizations in high-impact conversations that not only inform local strategy but also elevate local expertise to influence the broader network.
• Other leaders and staff are encouraged to join in for specific initiatives relevant to their area of focus — there’s much flexibility so that each member organization broadly extracts the greatest benefit and growth.
• Up to 4 participants at each Alliance in-person event.
• Participation in a special Networks Reception and Executive Leadership Summit at the IHI Forum.
• Invitation into emerging collaborations across the IHI global community.
• One complimentary membership to IHI Chief Quality Officer (CQO) Network.

Leadership Alliance Enrollment Fees

The cost for one year of participation is $45,000, which includes participation for one entire organizational team.

The 2025–2026 membership year of the IHI Leadership Alliance begins in October 2025. To learn more about the Alliance and how your organization can join this remarkable group of health care innovators, please email David Coletta (dcoletta@ihi.org).

Partial scholarships are available for:

• State hospital associations
• Federally qualified health centers
• Safety net organizations
• ​Primary care organizations
• Other select stakeholders

The IHI team welcomes a conversation to discuss your eligibility for scholarships.