Pamela R. Knecht
Ms. Knecht, President of ACCORD LIMITED, has over 28 years of consulting experience in multiple industries. Her clients include for-profit and not for-profit organizations in industries such as health care, financial services, distribution, retail, professional services, manufacturing, associations, social services, arts, and education.
Ms. Knecht assists clients with strategic planning; governance assessment, restructuring, and development; organizational diagnosis and design; change management; physician collaboration/alignment; and executive team effectiveness. She custom designs and facilitates programs and processes that enable owners, families, boards, and senior executives to clarify their mission, vision, and goals. In addition, she helps them to develop their organizations and their teams to support implementation of their strategic plans and to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness.
Ms. Knecht is a frequent speaker and facilitator at board retreats as well as at local, regional, and national conferences. Her presentations to hospitals, family business centers, banks, associations, and other organizations address issues related to strategic planning and governance effectiveness. She is also a faculty member and one of the Governance Advisors of The Governance Institute.
Ms. Knecht has authored a number of articles for AHA’s Trustee Magazine, ACHE’s Healthcare Executive, and The Governance Institute’s BoardRoom Press. Her articles address various aspects of board effectiveness including structure, composition and functioning. She also recently authored a white paper for The Governance Institute entitled, Engaging the Board in Strategic Planning: Rationale, Tools, and Techniques.
Prior to joining ACCORD LIMITED, Ms. Knecht was a Consultant for an executive education and organization development firm that served the Fortune 200. The firm helped Chief Executive Officers and their direct reports to understand the strategic challenges that would be facing their industry and organization over the next five to ten years. During the previous ten years, she worked for a family owned business as well as for medium and large sized publicly traded corporations where her clients included not-for-profit, for-profit, privately held and publicly traded organizations.
Ms. Knecht is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and is an active member of the Chicago Chapter of the Organization Development Network and the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development.