Michelle Wright has over 25 years of corporate leadership and private equity advisory experience, including nearly a decade in the C-suite as both Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and a Product Executive for the largest health insurer in the mid-Atlantic region.

Michelle’s varied business and health care background includes human capital and organizational change, mergers and integration, value-based care, private equity, government programs, wellness, disease and behavioral health management, finance, corporate governance, and end-to-end product accountability. She understands complex business models and draws on her experience to help leadership teams create aligned product, care management, and workforce strategies.

As CHRO for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield—a $9 billion health insurance payor—Michelle was responsible for a 7,000-person distributed workforce and an operating budget of $250 million. Her strategies led the company to top-quartile results for employee engagement and organizational health and received national recognition for engagement, diversity, ethics and compliance, health and wellness, and recruitment. Michelle was directly responsible for the Compensation Committee and all aspects of executive and broad-based performance compensation within a heavily regulated environment. As a Product Executive across three million covered members, Michelle developed a suite of wellness and disease management products across all commercial and government business segments and grew account adoption 400 percent.   

As a Strategic Consultant with extensive private equity, payor, and provider experience, Michelle has aligned providers and provider executives to value-based care and quality strategies while simultaneously reducing turnover and improving engagement. She has led multistate compensation, benefits, and recontracting initiatives in alignment with Corporate Practice of Medicine regulations and established governance for approval and monitoring.

She advises extensively on payor relations and go-to-market strategies within commercial and government programs. She has also advised companies in the receipt of millions in federal, state, and private grant programs supporting patient access, value-based care, behavioral health, technology, and provider retention.