Leadership in healthcare fields is growing increasingly complex due to a number of factors.

For Parker Executive Search's industry-leading sports practice, 2013 was a year of familiarity and change. Hosting the 2013 Final Four in Atlanta gave firm leaders the opportunity to reconnect with many friends and clients as the sports world focused on Georgia in early April.

Dr. Carole Kenner, a scholar and educator with an international reputation as the "mother of neonatology nursing," has been appointed The College of New Jersey's Carol Kuser Loser Dean of the School of Nursing, Health and Exercise Science.

Executive talent is always an organization's most valuable asset.

In challenging times, savvy colleges and universities are remembering the one investment that always pays off: an investment in finding the right leader.

Derek Mason, regarded as one of the nation's top coordinators, is the new head football coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores.

John Kelly, Ph.D., was selected as Florida Atlantic University's seventh president by the University's 13-member Board of Trustees on Friday, Jan. 17.

Christy Harris Lemak, Ph.D., has been named chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Health Services Administration. Lemak comes to UAB from the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the Griffith Leadership Center in Health Management and Policy.

Bob Diaco, who served on the Notre Dame coaching staff as the defensive coordinator for the past four years and the assistant head coach for the past two, has been named the head football coach at the University of Connecticut - the 30th in school history.

Elon University Director of Athletics Dave Blank introduced Rich Skrosky as the new Phoenix head football coach today, Dec. 12. Skrosky becomes the 21st head football coach in school history and will guide Elon as it moves to the Colonial Athletic Association for the 2014 season.