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Do you have dreams for your team and workplace? I’d love to join you and help make them realities.

My areas of expertise include executive healthcare leadership and development, program development, healthcare innovation and transformation, new care delivery models, large-scale system change, healthcare operations across both acute and ambulatory care settings. All of my work is infused with joy, creativity, and faith. The result of my work is a transformation of leaders, teams, and workplace culture.

Dr. Joni Watson is passionate about growing the healthcare professional workforce pipeline while also caring for existing healthcare professionals and fostering healthy work environments creating unparalleled, holistic care. She is particularly interested in creative leadership fostering joy-in-work, professional uses of social media, lean repaid cycle process improvement, and intrapreneurship to impact individuals and communities.

Joni has served in healthcare leadership roles from frontline nurse to local hospital and integrated healthcare system executive. She holds an Oncology Certified Nurse credential from the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Tyler. She completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice in Executive Leadership from Duke University.