The Backstory

Anne Hancock Toomey

Booking Overview

This limited-series leadership interview podcast explores the personal journeys, values, and leadership philosophies of prominent healthcare and philanthropic executives, with recurring guests who lead major health systems or national organizations. PR agencies could credibly pitch healthcare CEOs, nonprofit and foundation executives, and mission-driven organizational leaders with substantial leadership achievements and compelling personal backstories; booking is very difficult because the show consistently features high-profile industry leaders.

Metrics

Episodes: 169

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 97 subscribers

Instagram: 6.8k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

ourthinking@jarrardinc.com

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Host

Anne Hancock Toomey - President and Co-Founder of Jarrard Inc., a healthcare communications consulting firm, with nearly two decades of experience partnering with healthcare leaders and organizations.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:

CEOs, presidents, and senior executives of major healthcare systems, foundations, nonprofits, or other mission-driven organizations, particularly leaders with substantial operational responsibility and a distinctive personal leadership journey.

Required Achievements:

Leading large healthcare systems or national philanthropic organizations, Driving organizational transformation or major institutional initiatives, Advancing to chief executive leadership after a notable career progression, Building high-performing cultures centered on mission, humility, and service

Recent Guest Discussions

Cynthia Brandt, PhD - Authentic Leadership, Philanthropy, Career Development, Organizational Culture, Humility, And Lessons From Becoming A Ceo.

Patrick Frias, MD - Healthcare Leadership, Empathy, Mission-driven Management, Empowering Teams, Humility, And Leading Through Complexity.

Marty Bonick - Healthcare Administration, Executive Leadership, Mentorship, Career Advancement, Patient-centered Management, And Organizational Measurement.

Lisa Shannon - Leadership Development, Patient Safety, Cultural Change, Mentorship, Career Decisions, And Balancing Executive Responsibilities With Family.

Rob Allen - Servant Leadership, Healthcare Transformation, Transparency, Employee Engagement, Organizational Growth, Authenticity, And Purpose.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Leadership, Philanthropy, Organizational Culture

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Backstory

Backstory Sessions 2026: David Dill

October 07, 2026

This is Backstory Sessions — a new short-form series recorded live at Healthcare Sessions 2026 in Nashville, and also on YouTube. Host Anne Hancock Toomey sits down with David Dill, chairman and CEO of Lifepoint Health, to discuss his path from growing up with a basketball-coach father and teacher mother to earning an accounting degree at Murray State and moving to Nashville in 1991. Dill explains how work at Deloitte and a dialysis startup pulled him into healthcare in 1996, leading to near...

BONUS 211. From Plowing Snow to Leading Healthcare Transformation, with Warner Thomas

September 23, 2026

It's a bonus! In this special edition episode , Anne Hancock Toomey interviews Warner Thomas, president and CEO of Sutter Health. They start with a note about the first podcast Anne ever hosted - a 2020 conversation with Thomas that reminds us all of how much has changed even as the principles of authentic leadership haven't. From there, Thomas traces his path from a disciplined, outdoorsy childhood in Vermont to pumping gas, plowing snow, and later studying accounting and computer informa...

210. From Local Newspaper Delivery to National Philanthropy Leader, with Cynthia Brandt, PhD

June 24, 2026

In the final episode of Season 2, Anne Hancock Toomey interviews Cynthia Brandt, PhD. Brandt is CEO of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health and a deeply respected leader in the world of philanthropy. Brandt reflects on growing up in the Midwest in a minister’s family, early lessons in authenticity from a difficult camping experience and the teacher who led the excursion, and how receiving scholarships didn’t just make higher education for her but also sparked her belief that ph...

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