About Quint

"How do you actually change a company's culture? And how do you know if you're succeeding? Until we met up with Quinton Studer we were skeptical of those advocating cultural change within an organization. Studer has refined his system over the years and brought it to the point where it's replicable not only in other hospitals but in any service business." - Inc. Magazine

Quint Studer

Quint Studer, founder of Studer Group, is considered by many as the main impetus for developing tools and techniques for organizations attaining great results. The systems he and the Studer Group have invented hardwire techniques and behaviors to sustain these great results. Quint has done it.

After ten (10) years teaching special education, Quint entered healthcare as the Community Relations Representative with Parkside Medical Services.

He then went to Mercy Health System in Janesville, Wisconsin, moving from Director of Marketing to Senior Vice President of Business Development. From July 1987 to January of 1993, Quint was involved in taking Mercy Health System from a single location to a large vertically integrated system. Quint was also placed in charge of focusing on employee satisfaction.

From January 1993 to June of 1996, Quint served as COO of Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. His focus on patient care helped Holy Cross gain a national reputation in operational excellence by being named Hospital Magazines 'Great Comeback Winner' in 1994.

In June of 1996, Quint was named the Administrator of Baptist Hospital, Inc. in Pensacola, Florida. While President of Baptist Hospital, Quint used his past experiences to lead this organization to unprecedented success. In 1997, Baptist was named by Modern Healthcare magazine as their Service Excellence winner as well as being named by Voluntary Hospital Association as winner of their Leadership Award. In 1999, inc. (pronounced Ink) magazine named Quint its March Master of Business, making him the only healthcare leader to have ever won this award. Quint also has received the honor of being named to Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.

In January 2000, Quint formed the Studer Group. Today, Studer Group is considered to be the leading company in assisting organizations to achieve their desired results. In their efforts to improve healthcare nation wide, Studer Group proudly partners with the National Quality Forum in Washington D.C., co-sponsoring the National Quality Award and also partners with Modern Healthcare to host the annual Best Places to Work Conference and Gala.

Quint is a nationally recognized speaker and a published author. His first book, Hardwiring Excellence was a BusinessWeek bestseller and currently has over 380,000 copies in use nationwide. Results That Last is a general leadership book published in the fall of 2007 and within just 4 weeks of publishing, it hit the Wall Street Journal's best seller list of business books. His new book, Straight A Leadership – Alignment, Action and Accountability, is based on research with America's top healthcare organizations, pinpointing what gets in the way of execution and reveals how to overcome these obstacles.

Most importantly, Quint stays in the field creating tools and techniques to make organizations better. Quint mixes passion with prescriptions to help achieve organizational goals and connect them to purpose. He is called 'healthcare's fire starter' for igniting the flame in each of us to make a difference.