
Dr. Jane Cooke-Lauder specializes in issues of leadership, strategy and governance in the health sector, working with physicians, senior management teams and boards of directors to catalyze change and innovation. She has a Doctorate in Management from the Weatherhead School of Business, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland and was an associate professor at York University, Faculty of Health and School of Business for a number of years.
Her consulting career has included a strong strategic focus on leadership development and decision making, with a specific interest in how organizations and sectors work and make decisions together. Starting with her MBA dissertation, she has remained a student of interorganizational collaboration as both an academic and as a practitioner.
As a member of the Ontario Women’s Health Council, Jane championed the inclusion of gender based analysis within the Hospital Report Card and chaired the Accountability Committee that designed and funded the first evidenced-based scorecard on the state of women’s health in Ontario (the POWER study). Jane was a member of faculty for the inaugural certification program in Social Innovation, designed and delivered by the Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo. She was also a faculty member for the highly regarded Physician Leadership Development Program run over six consecutive years by the CMA and the OMA and continues to coach a number of physician leaders across the country.
Today, in this increasingly complex and volatile world, Jane’s practice is based on helping leaders identify new ways of working, strategizing, establishing priorities and making more effective decisions. She has provided strategic advice to the Section on the Beyond the Mask initiative for the past five years.