Leslie Pelton

Leslie Pelton is an outcome-oriented leader who catalyzes innovation in health systems and transforms passion into impactful action. Throughout her 24-year career, she has brought these talents to the improvement of health and health care of adults of all ages in community, health care practice, hospital, and nursing home-based care. She listens deeply to the challenges that executives and frontline teams face, and collaboratively designs responses and leads the application of improvement science to build on will and drive improved outcomes. Ms. Pelton is a nationally recognized leader in the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement to improve the health and health care of older adults across the US. With funders, national partners, leading health systems, and the IHI team, she designed the campaign that has resulted in improved care of older adults in 1,000 places of care across the US. Throughout her career, Ms. Pelton has consulted with major academic medical centers, including building new models of integrating research, clinical care, and policy, resulting in improved outcomes. She built and led her own consulting firm and served as IHI faculty prior to joining the staff. She also built a practice at Deloitte Consulting, addressing the human factors associated with strategy and operational innovations.