Kathleen LePar has 30 years of healthcare experience. She is a registered nurse offering Beacon Partners clients clinical and nursing informatics expertise gained through broad experience in progressively responsible management and supervisory positions. She possesses management and customer service skills, providing a wide array of leadership and management support with a great depth of understanding of healthcare organizations. She also served as an education and public affairs specialist for the Medicare Peer Review Organization (PRO), responsible for developing and delivering Medicare education, along with communication and relationship-building with physicians, administrators and both state and federal legislators.

Ms. LePar is an expert in selecting and implementing advanced clinical systems, including EMR, clinical documentation and specialty systems in acute care, ambulatory clinics and behavioral health provider organizations. She effectively identifies approaches for creating integrated networks to support the healthcare continuum and effectively applies informatics and clinical solutions that extend nursing care delivery across the breadth of the patient safety scope.

Using proven methodologies for change management Ms. LePar has effectively assisted organizations in successfully reaching their goals by facilitating change management working sessions, collaborating with senior leaders to identify impacts to their functions and to assess organizational change readiness and developing project charters to guide organizations through the change process.

She currently serves as Vice President of Strategic Services for Beacon Partners, and oversees resource management, professional development, service methodologies and practice line development.

Chris Kondrat’s 15- year career has been exclusively focused on the healthcare information technology sector. His extensive experience working with academic hospitals, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), community hospitals and physician group practices enables him to serve as a strategic advisor to many of the industry’s leading CIOs.  He has an extensive track record of producing strong sales results and high client satisfaction, with strong reputation among healthcare industry leaders.  He has in-depth knowledge of and experience in implementing and optimizing clinical systems with a focus on physician-centric applications, including CPOE and clinical documentation. Chris has been instrumental in establishing Beacon’s business presence in Canada and Europe. 
 
Chris received his bachelor of arts degree from Bowdoin College and his master’s degree from Boston College. 

Christina brings a wealth of strategic HR experience to Beacon Partners, culminated over the past 20 years in a variety of positions in HR and Management Consulting. Before joining Beacon Partners in 2012, Christina lead EMD Serono’s Talent Management & Development function and also served as the HR Business Partner for the Medical Operations organization. During these years at EMD Serono, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Christina was responsible for developing and implementing the Talent Management strategy and worked closely with global HR leadership to design company wide initiatives and programs related to employee engagement, performance management, succession planning, competency models and career paths, and high potential programs. She also provided change management consulting to senior leadership and led the award winning Corporate University.

Prior to EMD Serono, Christina was with Mercer Human Resource Consulting’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice where she provided project management and advisory services around human resource issues that were a direct result of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs or business process outsourcing. Christina also worked for Gartner’s consulting organization within the Human Capital Management practice where she provided strategic guidance to senior and executive level clients focused on improving employee performance, retention and satisfaction, optimizing organization structures, managing major organization change and transition efforts, and developing competency based HR programs and initiatives.

Previous to her employment at Gartner, Christina established herself within the HR and HR/IT consulting industries through her employment with Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Human Factors and Performance Analysis Group, the Professional Development Group, and the Yankee Group. During her career, Christina has been asked to present her research and ideas at major industry conferences as well as to private organizations, and has been quoted by the trade press.

Christina’s received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and her Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Hofstra University.