Toney Welborn, MD, MPH, MS
Dr. Toney Welborn is a family physician, healthcare leader, educator, and organizational systems thinker who guides healthcare organizations through complexity to identify practical ways forward.
Her career spans clinical medicine, public health, Medicaid administration, population health, value-based care, and medical education. She previously served as Medical Director and Interim Chief Quality Officer at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority and Chief of Population Health at Variety Care, a federally qualified health center.
Drawing on experience from both payer and provider perspectives, Toney offers consulting in population health, value-based care, and organizational assessment, along with speaking engagements and educational programs for healthcare professionals, including medical residents and faculty.
Her approach begins with understanding what is actually happening, questioning assumptions, and identifying practical opportunities to move forward.
See Clearly. Move Forward.
Clarity as an Intervention
45–60 minute keynote, breakout, or virtual presentation
Organizations are often very good at solving the problem they think they have. But what happens when that isn’t the real problem?
Through real-world stories, Dr. Toney Welborn explores how questioning assumptions, following variation, and looking for the story behind the data can reveal what is actually driving organizational results.
Audiences discover why understanding the problem may be the most important intervention before deciding what to do next.
Organizational Systems Thinking 101
90-minute interactive, in-person workshop
What happens when everyone is doing their job, but the organization still isn’t getting the results it expects?
Participants explore a realistic healthcare problem from multiple organizational perspectives, uncovering how data, processes, incentives, workarounds, and human behavior interact.
Through this interactive experience, participants learn to look beyond individual departments, recognize unintended consequences, and bring different pieces of the story together to identify the problem behind the problem.
