Joe Tye

Joe Tye has spent five decades helping healthcare organizations build cultures where people act like owners. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Baystate Medical Center and as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The Toledo Hospital, two large community teaching hospitals. Earlier, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, he established one of the nation’s most comprehensive rural EMS systems and was founding president of the Association of Air Medical Services.

He is the author or co-author of 14 books, including The Florence Prescription, which has more than 250,000 copies in circulation, and Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare with Bob Dent, whose first and second editions earned American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. His Nursing Management article “Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times” received an APEX Award for Publishing Excellence, and his early work founding STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco) was profiled in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ashes to Ashes.

Joe earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was class co-president, and a master’s in hospital and health administration from the University of Iowa, where he is an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Public Health. His keynotes and workshops pair memorable storytelling with practical tools leaders can put to work right away.