President and CEO
Exceptional Leadership LLC
Carson F. Dye, FACHE, President & CEO of Exceptional Leadership, LLC, is a seasoned executive recruiter and leadership consultant with over 40 years of leadership and management experience. Carson Dye combines over 20 years of executive search and consulting with 20 years of executive leadership positions in four hospitals/health systems. He has taught many individuals over the past 30-plus years through his relationships with the American College of Healthcare Executives, The Governance Institute, University of Alabama-Birmingham, and The Ohio State University. Along with his executive search work, teaching, and writing, he has had considerable experience the past two decades in physician leadership development, physician engagement, and physician leadership coaching.
Carson has conducted over 700 leadership searches for CEO, COO, CMO, CFO, and physician executive roles in health systems, academic medical centers, universities, and free-standing hospitals. With extensive experience in succession planning, coaching, leadership assessment, and retreat facilitation, he is also certified to use the Hogan Leadership Assessment tests in assessing senior leadership talent and executive team building. He has had extensive experience working with physician leaders and is frequently sought out for counsel on physician engagement matters. He has developed customized physician leadership academies for a number of health systems.
Carson has served as an executive search consultant and partner with 3 large search firms including Witt/Kieffer, TMP Worldwide, and Lamalie Associates. Earlier in his career, Carson was partner and director of Findley Davies, Inc.’s healthcare consulting division in Toledo. For 20 years he worked in healthcare administration at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Clermont Mercy Hospital, Cincinnati.
A faculty member for the American College of Healthcare Executives since 1987, he has taught in their Board of Governors Exam Prep course and serves as lead faculty in several courses including leadership, physician engagement, and clinical integration. He serves as a faculty member of The Governance Institute and currently holds a faculty appointment at the University of Alabama-Birmingham in their Executive Master of Science in Health Administration program. For twenty years he taught organizational behavior and leadership at The Ohio State University’s MHA program. He has authored 17 books including 3 ACHE Book of the Year winners, The Healthcare Leader’s Guide to Actions, Awareness, and Perception, 3rd Edition (2017), Developing Physician Leaders for Successful Clinical Integration (2013) and Leadership Values (2001). His recent 2-volume books, Enhanced Physician Engagement: What It Is, Why You Need It, and Where to Begin, Vol. 1, and Enhanced Physician Engagement: Tools and Tactics for Success, Vol. 2, have just been published in 2021. He has also authored Leadership in Healthcare: Essential Values & Skills, 3rd Edition (2017); Exceptional Leadership – 16 Critical Competencies, 2nd Edition (2015); Winning the Talent War (2001); and Protocols for Healthcare Executive Behavior (1993). The Dye-Garman Leadership Competency Model from the Exceptional Leadership book is used by many leading health care organizations for assessment and leadership development.
He has served on the boards of Lourdes University, The Sight Center / Toledo Society for the Blind where he served as board chair, and the Visiting Nurses Association. Carson earned his M.B.A. at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH and his B.A. at Marietta College, Marietta, OH.
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