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This is an extraordinary case that powerfully confirms how igniting the greatness in people can achieve hard-to-imagine results… This book is a gift to the world, showing us what is truly possible.” 

David Carder
Managing Director, Kotter International

Creating Organizational Culture to Yield Extraordinary Business Results

Bill Lucia and Deb Kelly embarked on a journey to transform their company. Together with the best executive team in the business, a workforce with unparalleled passion and commitment to serve, and a handful of really smart partners, they have proven that anything is possible when you truly unleash the power of your people. This book tells you how they did that-and how you can too.

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HMS Case Study

We have included a case study that shares HMS’ story of transformation. This helps to illustrate the value of our approach to accelerating business results; the results we achieved; and the impact it had on the company and its people.

Companion Reading Guide

This series of 5 emails will walk you through the book and deliver extra content for understanding the main ideas. Each email also includes at least one tip for accelerating your transformation not mentioned in the book.

Overview of High-Performance Organizations

This presentation provides an overview of the criteria HMS used to define an organization as high performing. You can use it to determine where your company stacks up against these criteria and use it as a roadmap to begin your own transformational journey.

Crafting Your Big Opportunity

This presentation illustrates the steps HMS took to create their initial Big Opportunity statement. Please remember that this is the first step in a much bigger initiative to accelerate business performance and create a culture of high performance.

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10 Things This Book Will Teach You

Learn how to…

Discover how you can grow as a leader through the power of culture.
Create an atmosphere in your company where employees drive positive change.
Learn to create true urgency that will build a positive and progressive atmosphere within your company.
Find ways that you can ensure your team of employees stays motivated and connected even when working remotely.
Fuel employee engagement and bring excitement back into the workplace.
Explore various methods of creating an inspiring company culture for any size business.
Discover why showing your employees what they do matters is vital to growth.
Employ strategies not only to maintain your company's growth but also to accelerate it.
See why it is so important to have a strong balance of leadership and management skills in your business.
Learn to lead with both your head and your heart to drive inspired performance in your company.

Praise for Leading With Your Head and Your Heart

"For over a decade, I was fortunate to be part of a unique journey where organizational culture was placed front and center. Bill Lucia and Deb Kelly share, in this compelling leadership memoir, a clear path for other organizations to achieve improved business results by placing people first."
Debjani Biswas
CEO and Founder, Coachieve, LLC
"Having lived firsthand the journey described in Leading from the Heart, I can affirm that it opened my eyes to what's seemingly impossible but truly achievable. I consider myself fortunate to have worked alongside Bill and Deb, two leaders with more heart than most any I've encountered."
Vern Maczuzak
VP, Culture and People

Let Me Tell You More About the Book...

Leading with Your Head and Your Heart may be one of the most heartfelt and practical guides on how any leadership team can build an organizational culture that truly yields extraordinary results. Writing this book was a labor of love because it gave the authors and the thousands of employees who were part of this story the opportunity to look back on a journey that changed them all forever.

This book is not theoretical. It tells the story of a company that aspired to greatness and was willing to put in the work to make it happen. It tells you not just what they did, but walks you through, step by step, just how they did it. It introduces you to the many experts they tapped into along the way, and the extraordinary partnership they established with the company that helped them build and transfer the skills to sustain it on their own. It openly shares the missteps they encountered along the way and uses real metrics to measure progress and articulate success. Perhaps most importantly, though, it illustrates the power of an engaged workforce.

Many of us grow up learning to manage our companies and our people. To” manage” means “to control”. This book shares the leap of faith required for HMS’s executive team to let go of that control and empower their workforce to set aggressive goals and find innovative means for achieving them. It teaches you that leaders exist at all levels of the organization if only you look for them. Finally, it proves, once and for all, that an engaged, empowered workforce will choose to work harder than you would ever ask of them—and they will have fun doing it!

The Authors

About William C. Lucia

Bill Lucia is the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of HMS, a leading a healthcare analytics and technology company . . He served as CEO from 2009 to 2021 and was named Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2015. HMS was acquired by Gainwell Technologies, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, in April 2021.

Under Bill’s leadership, HMS grew to $673 million in revenue, serving 500 healthcare payers and 50 government agencies in 40-plus states and 31 of the 38 private health insurers in Australia .

Bill and his leadership team transformed HMS into a high-performance culture by empowering its 3,200 people to act with urgency and excellence to tackle healthcare’s biggest challenges. By unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of all HMSers, employee engagement jumped by 20%, revenue increased by 52% and AEBITDA rose by 82% over a six-year period.

About William C. Lucia

Bill Lucia is the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of HMS, a leading a healthcare analytics and technology company . . He served as CEO from 2009 to 2021 and was named Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2015. HMS was acquired by Gainwell Technologies, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, in April 2021.

Under Bill’s leadership, HMS grew to $673 million in revenue, serving 500 healthcare payers and 50 government agencies in 40-plus states and 31 of the 38 private health insurers in Australia .

Bill and his leadership team transformed HMS into a high-performance culture by empowering its 3,200 people to act with urgency and excellence to tackle healthcare’s biggest challenges. By unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of all HMSers, employee engagement jumped by 20%, revenue increased by 52% and AEBITDA rose by 82% over a six-year period.

About Deborah Kelly

Deborah Kelly served as Director of Organizational Development at HMS for 10 years. She is committed to helping organizations achieve strategic business results by applying “next practice” organizational learning, performance improvement and change leadership tactics. She spent most of her career at Aetna, where she served as head of Enterprise Workforce Development and led some of the company’s most innovative change initiatives

About Deborah Kelly

Deborah Kelly served as Director of Organizational Development at HMS for 10 years. She is committed to helping organizations achieve strategic business results by applying “next practice” organizational learning, performance improvement, and change leadership tactics. She spent most of her career at Aetna, where she served as head of Enterprise Workforce Development and led some of the company’s most innovative change initiatives.

Leading With Your Head And Your Heart

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