Consulting Magazine: Cognizant’s Vice President of Healthcare Consulting Named Among the Top 25 Consultants for 2016

“Winning the Top 25 Consultants Award is a testament to the wonderful clients, mentors and consulting leaders I’ve worked with over my career.” - William Shea, Vice President, Healthcare Consulting, Cognizant

William Shea was named by Consulting Magazine among the Top 25 Consultants for 2016. He was honored in the Excellence in Healthcare category.

“Our winning consultants are game-changers,” noted the magazine. “The Top 25 Consultants are a distinguished group, for sure. Through their extraordinary efforts, they make themselves, their firms, their clients and the entire profession proud.”

“Cognizant’s William Shea has been driving successful managed care strategies for more than 30 years and across several industry cycles,” the magazine wrote. “With such a lengthy career, he’s seen a lot of changes take hold in the industry, many of which he helped pioneer in the earlier wave of value-based and accountable care. His knowledge and experience are so vast, clients from the 1990s continue to seek his counsel, across their own careers as well as his.”

“As a consulting firm, we are only as good as the people we have on our team, so providing a challenging and rewarding organization for professional and career growth is key to success of any consulting leader,” says Shea. Among the biggest factors to his success, he says, are his passion, deep industry knowledge, and intense focus on healthcare industry.

When asked what motivates him to excel, Shea says, “Our team. Every morning we wake up realizing that the decisions we make impact our consultants’ personal and professional lives. That is a critical responsibility that cannot be taken lightly. Additionally, the ability to have an impact on the healthcare industry and to shape is course. Throughout my career, I have had the good fortune to work with industry-leading clients who were committed to improving healthcare, both on the administrative and financing side, as well as on care delivery.”

He says addressing new challenges faced by clients and consulting teams on a daily basis, resulting in a unique vantage point from which to understand the entire industry and its underlying market dynamics are what he enjoys most about the profession. “As a consultant, I have the privilege of working with numerous clients facing off against the same industry challenge,” he says. “This provides me unique insight into the relative value of alternative business strategies.”

Winning the Top 25 Consultants Award, Shea says, is a testament to the wonderful clients, mentors and consulting leaders he’s worked with over his career.