Executive Career Transition · Healthcare

Your next healthcare leadership role won't be posted. We know how those roles get filled.

Executive career transition and private representation for healthcare leaders earning $200K+ across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Texas.

See how the program works

15 minutes. A candid, non-public read on how the healthcare market will see you.

Executive Career Strategy Report

Search-Market Perspective · how committees read you

PHASE 01

Today

Let go in the merger

With us

Led the integration

Translated into what systems reward

QualityMarginThroughputPatient experiencePhysician alignment

Executives placed at

Memorial HealthcareMount SinaiJohns HopkinsNemours

System, academic-medical & pediatric · Since 1991

The situation

The market changed. The playbook didn't come with it.

01

The role was eliminated.

A merger, reorg, or "synergy" cut erased the seat. The severance clock started the same day.

02

The portal is a void.

Every posted VP role now draws hundreds of AI-generated applications, and recruiters trust the pile less each month.

03

The real roles are invisible.

They move through search committees and retained recruiters before they're ever posted.

04

Your outplacement expires.

Generic, national, and timed to run out before a committee-governed search even concludes.

05

Your coach has never hired.

They read this market from the outside — never once from the hiring side of a search like yours.

You don't need to send more applications. You need the people who decide to hear your name from someone they trust.

The result

Stop applying into the void. Start being represented.

You stop guessing how you're being read and start hearing it straight — including the things a committee would never say to your face. Your record gets translated into the outcomes systems reward: quality, margin, throughput, physician alignment. And your last chapter stops reading as "let go in a merger" and starts reading as the leader who ran the integration.

You walk into rooms already introduced, by someone those rooms respect. Senior healthcare searches routinely run past a year unaided; shorten yours by even a few months and you've recovered far more than the engagement ever cost.

How you read now

  • Displaced in a merger
  • Single-site administrator
  • Clinical leader
  • A longer résumé

How we position you

  • The leader who ran the integration
  • A system-scale operator
  • An executive-track leader
  • A search-caliber strategy
About Newland

A search firm — not a coaching service.

Newland has run C-suite executive search since 1991. Health systems, payers and medical groups engage us to fill the very seats our clients are competing for — which is precisely why we can tell a leader how those decisions actually get made.

The practice is deliberately small and deliberately regional: the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Texas, the densest health-system corridors in the country. We take on the leaders we can genuinely open doors for — which is why representation is capped, and why every engagement starts with an honest read rather than a pitch.

The people behind the work

Vanessa Abreu

Vanessa Abreu

Managing Director · Executive Career Transition

Leads the program and serves as Director of Recruitment, with more than 18 years as an executive recruiter, HR consultant and career coach — her deepest expertise in healthcare. She has placed healthcare leaders at Memorial Healthcare, Mount Sinai, Johns Hopkins and Nemours, across system, academic-medical and pediatric environments. Search-committee chairs cite her ability to match talent to mission and run a rigorous, authentic process.

Robert Newland

Robert Newland

Founder & CEO · Certified M&A Advisor

Founded Newland HR Services in 1991 and has spent three decades in C-suite executive search, talent management and leadership development across industries and international markets. As an entrepreneur, investor and Certified M&A Advisor, he anchors the complimentary Entrepreneurial Pathway session for leaders weighing MSO ownership, practice acquisition or health-services investment.

What that changes for you

We work the buy side, live.

Our perspective comes from inside the rooms where committees, CHROs and retained recruiters decide — three decades of C-suite search since 1991.

Targeted, never volume.

At $200K+, the right 20 relationships beat 200 applications. We open the right doors the right way.

Healthcare-fluent.

Service lines, payer mix, value-based care, committee dynamics, physician alignment — we speak your market's language because we hire in it.

More included, not less.

Leadership assessments and 90 days of post-placement coaching are included — support competitors charge extra for or end the day you land.

How it works

One engagement, from first read to first quarter.

We keep the work personal — the doors we open are chosen carefully for you.

1
Complimentary · 15 min

Market-Read

A candid, private read on how committees, CHROs, and recruiters will evaluate you — and where your search should actually start.

Every engagement starts here

2
Four months

Position & Strategize

Your leadership narrative, an executive brand for committee and CHRO readers, a target map of 30–50 organizations, and a recruiter strategy built by recruiters.

3
End to end

Activate & Represent

Run the plan with accountability — or hand us the market and let us represent you directly. Assessments and 90 days of post-placement coaching included.

Inside the four-month program

Select a phase to see what happens and what you walk away with.

Weeks 1–3

We find out how the market actually reads you.

You walk away with

Executive Career Strategy Report

  • Executive career and leadership assessment
  • Accomplishment inventory translated into system-level outcomes — quality, margin, throughput, patient experience, physician alignment
  • Values, motivators and constraints
  • Alternative-path exploration: system roles, payer, health-tech, consulting, ownership
  • Search-Market Perspective session — how committees and recruiters will read you
What representation looks like

Active representation is targeted, never volume.

Active representation is targeted, never volume — the right doors, opened the right way. Every month you get concrete activity: new opportunities identified, outreach run, the target list expanded, and market feedback fed back into your positioning.

Reported to you every month. Cancel anytime.

Prefer to start with a conversation?

Representation · Month 02

Your monthly activity

YOUR REPORT

4

Committees reached

7

Introductions made

5

Recruiters briefed

3

Conversations active

Chief Nursing Officer searchCommittee chair briefed
System VP, Service LinesIntroduction accepted
Regional CHROConversation scheduled

Reported to you every month. Cancel anytime.

In their words

Newland HR Services played a pivotal role in helping me find the right CEO position. They took the time to understand my career goals, leadership style and aspirations, so every opportunity they presented was aligned with my vision. One of the best in the business.
Thresa GilesHealthcare sector
Investment

Boutique representation, priced for the region — not the coast.

Set deliberately below the $12K–$25K coastal tiers, and structured so a transition on severance is never the reason a leader goes unrepresented.

Start here

Complimentary Market-Read

A private 15-minute read on how the market sees you. No pitch, real feedback. Every engagement begins here.

Free

15 minutes · Private

Core plan

4 months

Executive Career Transition

The core engagement. Full strategy, brand and search program.

$4,500

paid in advance · or $5,000 in 3 monthly installments

  • Executive career-transition strategy
  • Leadership assessments included
  • 90 days of post-placement coaching included
  • Entrepreneurial Pathway session included
Best value

Boutique anchor

6 months

Signature Engagement

The full white-glove engagement, with active representation running end to end.

$9,500

$13,000

50% upfront · 50% in 90 days
À la carte these components run ~$13,000.

  • Full executive career-transition engagement
  • Active representation end to end
  • Assessments and post-placement coaching included
  • Entrepreneurial Pathway session included

Active representation

Monthly

Executive Placement

Private, active representation, with concrete activity reported every month.

$1,000

per month · cancel anytime

  • Targeted opportunity identification
  • Committee and recruiter outreach
  • Introductions and market feedback
  • Concrete monthly activity reporting
I've worked with several advisors over my career. What made Newland HR Services different was the analysis underneath the advice: they read the market, mapped my skills and competencies against it, and turned that into a direction I could actually act on. Most advisors stop at the conversation.
Guillermo MorenoHealthcare sector
Frequently asked

Before you begin.

The program is intentionally narrow, confidential and built for experienced healthcare leaders navigating a consequential transition.

AI can write your résumé — so can everyone else's. It can't call a CHRO it knows, read a committee's temperature, or vouch for you to a search chair. We use AI for the commodity work and spend our hours on what it can't touch.

Keep it. It's generic, and it expires — usually before a committee-governed search even concludes. We're healthcare-specific, we work for you, and our post-placement support begins where theirs ends. Many clients run both.

Coaches advise from outside the market — most have never hired for a role like yours. We hire in it. Every engagement opens with a Search-Market Perspective session: how healthcare decision-makers will actually read you.

No one honest does. What we commit to is search-caliber strategy, real market access, and visible activity every month — and you can cancel Placement anytime.

Most of our work is confidential. Representation and outreach are handled to protect your current position throughout.

Start here

Find out how the market sees you.

Fifteen minutes, complimentary and entirely private — a candid read on how committees, CHROs and retained recruiters will evaluate you. No pitch.

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