Valerie Spalding

Valerie Spalding, MBA, MSc, Vice President, Business Development and Operations, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), provides leadership in developing and executing on IHI’s business strategy, creates and develops new business opportunities, and provides expertise on business and relationship development, project design, translation of customer needs, and operational planning. Prior to joining IHI in 2014, she led operational planning for an international non-governmental organization and worked in product marketing for a US-based global software company. She received her undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in Canada, her MSc from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and her MBA from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.