Professional Biography
Kristi Pintar, Ed.D., serves as the Vice President of Change Leadership and Organizational Development of the Christiana Care Health System, a major teaching hospital with three campuses, more than 1,300 patient beds, more than 13,400 employees, and generating more than $3 billion in patient revenue. She provides consultative services to executive leaders including strategic planning, organization design, performance coaching, leadership development, process improvement, and employee engagement as well as leads the organization’s workforce and leadership development programming and curriculum. In 2013, she joined Christiana Care as the operational leader of the Medical Group of Christiana Care (MGCC). MGCC is a large multispecialty physician practice comprised of over 500 employees and 230 clinical providers in over 55 primary and specialty care practices.
For five years, Kristi served as Penn Medicine Corporate Director of Organizational Development and Leadership Practice in the Penn Medicine Academy. Penn Medicine consists of The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (the nation’s first) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System (three major hospitals and several other business entities). Serving 18,000 employees, the Academy’s efforts focused on strengthening leadership practice, advancing the careers of the employees through on-site degree completion programs, and supporting the transfer of best practices in quality, service excellence, and leadership practice across the organization.
For 19 years prior, she led the Management Engineering and Organizational Development functions at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Allentown. She began her professional career as a researcher for the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Kristi earned her B.S. in Health Planning and Administration from Pennsylvania State University and is an M.B.A. graduate of Temple University. She earned her Ed.D. in the joint Wharton/Penn Graduate School of Education Work-Based Learning Leadership Program.
