About the Program

    
Strategy Matters! Overcoming the Paralysis of Uncertainty Presenters


Marian C. Jennings, MBA 
President
M. Jennings Consulting, Inc.
Malvern, PA

Susanna E. Krentz, MBA 
President
Krentz Consulting LLC
Chicago, IL




Marian C. Jennings, MBA
President
M. Jennings Consulting, Inc.
Malvern, PA

Currently the president of M. Jennings Consulting, Inc., Ms. Jennings has served as a healthcare strategy consultant for more than 30 years. Prior to founding M. Jennings Consulting in 2004, Ms. Jennings co-founded and served as president of Jennings Ryan & Kolb for 19 years.

Nationally recognized as an expert in strategic and financial planning, Ms. Jennings served as editor and co-author of Health Care Strategy for Uncertain Times. She is also the author of numerous articles and a frequent presenter at national programs. She was the 1991 recipient of SHSMD’s Corning Award. Ms. Jennings holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA in Mathematics from Tufts University.

Susanna E. Krentz, MBA
President
Krentz Consulting LLC
Chicago, IL

Susie Krentz is president of Krentz Consulting LLC, a consulting firm focused on assisting healthcare organizations with business strategy. Ms. Krentz has more than 29 years of advisory experience in strategic and service-line planning, process facilitation, affiliation planning, medical staff strategy, and financial analysis for academic medical centers, community hospitals, and children’s hospitals. Prior to founding Krentz Consulting LLC, she was the deputy director for health innovation at Noblis and executive vice president of Jennings Ryan & Kolb, for whom she worked for more than 20 years.

Ms. Krentz is currently a member of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development Board of Directors. She received her MBA from the Booth Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and her BA from Yale University.

Ms. Jennings and Ms. Krentz have worked together since 1980.

 

 
 
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