Twenty years of building and running hospitals, now serving on and chairing healthcare boards. Two ways to make use of that experience.

I serve on and chair the boards of healthcare groups in the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and Switzerland. Before that I opened new hospitals and led others through difficult periods and turnarounds as Chief Executive. I am also the author of Leading with Purpose in Healthcare, published in March 2027. Today I put that experience to work in two ways.

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Helping organisations and leaders avoid repeating mistakes that others have already made.

Advisory For boards, owners and investors Board roles, and advisory mandates in turnaround and transformation, for healthcare groups, their owners and investors. Advisory and board work → LEAD in Healthcare For healthcare leaders and their organisations Coaching, mentoring and speaking today, with programmes and a book from 2027, for clinicians moving into management, professionals joining healthcare from other industries and leaders preparing for their next role. Explore LEAD in Healthcare →

Advisory

Board and advisory work, grounded in having run hospitals.

For healthcare groups, their boards, owners and investors.

Christian Schuhmacher among healthcare leaders at a conference in the Middle East

Board mandatesChair, non-executive and independent roles on the boards of healthcare groups.

Turnaround and transformationRestructuring and change that holds, engaged for the length of the assignment.

Investment and project advisoryMarket entry, new hospital projects and operator selection for investors and owners.

Current board roles

United Arab EmiratesEmirates Hospitals GroupChairman of the Board

Saudi ArabiaSpecialized Medical Company (smc)Board and Audit Committee Member

KazakhstanTertiary Care Hospital Project, AlmatyChairman of the Board

SwitzerlandVITREA SchweizNon-Executive Board Member

DjiboutiHospital Al ShifaNon-Executive Board Member

MoroccoKing's College Hospital CasablancaNon-Executive Board Member

Healthcare invests years in training its clinicians, and far less in the people who lead the organisations around them.

Leadership development for clinicians stepping into managerial roles, professionals joining healthcare from other industries, and leaders preparing for their next step. Built from real situations in hospitals, including what went wrong.

Leading with Purpose in HealthcareChristian Schuhmacher

The book · Published March 2027

Leading with Purpose in Healthcare

Building resilient teams, cultures and systems that serve patients

Written from the hospitals I opened, ran and governed, including what went wrong. It sets out the four areas every healthcare leader works on, and everything in LEAD in Healthcare is built from it.

About the book

Available now

Coaching and mentoringExecutive coaching and mentoring for Chief Executives and senior leaders, and support through the first months of a new appointment.Coaching and mentoring →

Keynotes and conferencesSpeaker, panellist and panel chair at international conferences on healthcare, healthcare leadership and the future of health.Speaking →

Writing on healthcare and leadership

I write regularly on LinkedIn, where more than 14,000 people follow the conversation. The most recent pieces:

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14 May 2026 · LinkedInWhat challenges reveal about leadershipWhy the trust between teams and leadership is built long before a crisis, and only becomes visible during one.Read on LinkedIn → 9 May 2026 · LinkedInResilience, what is it really?Resilience in healthcare as a practice, built through structure, reflection and the tone that leadership sets.Read on LinkedIn → 2 May 2026 · LinkedInHealthcare in the UAE through the geopolitical challengesHow the country’s hospitals kept services running, and what that says about the system built over the past decade.Read on LinkedIn →

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