Sheri Shapiro

SEVP, Chief Strategy Officer, CommonSpirit Health

Sheri Shapiro is senior executive vice president and chief strategy officer of CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit healthcare systems and the nation’s largest Catholic health system. With more than $42 billion in annual revenue and 160,000 team members across 24 states, CommonSpirit supports more than 25 million patient encounters annually across urban, rural and suburban communities through a diversified care delivery portfolio spanning hospitals, outpatient centers, physician practices, virtual care, post-acute services, risk-based care and ancillary services.

As chief strategy officer, Shapiro leads enterprise growth and portfolio transformation initiatives and is responsible for system and market strategy, partnerships, innovation, marketing and communications, brand management, sales, payer strategy and CommonSpirit’s international division. Her portfolio includes mergers and acquisitions and the ministry’s $250 million venture fund, with a focus on advancing enterprise transformation, accretive growth and the development and implementation of strategic priorities.

Shapiro joined CommonSpirit in 2023 from Trinity Health, a $25 billion health system operating in 22 markets, where she served as chief strategy officer. She led enterprise-wide strategy, growth, innovation, transactions and diversification across the continuum of care, including work that increased diversified revenues by 11%, established Trinity Health’s first national ambulatory surgery partnership and supported the acquisition of a multimarket urgent care company.

Prior to Trinity Health, Shapiro was a principal and partner at Chartis, where she advised healthcare boards and C-suite executives on enterprise strategy, growth, operations transformation and partnerships, including mergers and acquisitions. At Ford Motor Company, she held brand and product management roles, managed the multibillion-dollar Ford Escape SUV brand and led go-to-market and launch strategy for the Ford Escape Hybrid, the world’s first hybrid-electric SUV and Ford’s first hybrid vehicle.

Shapiro has been recognized multiple times by Becker’s Healthcare as a top chief strategy officer and is a healthcare thought leader who regularly speaks at national industry forums on strategy, growth, transformation and the future of healthcare. She serves on nonprofit boards and advises healthcare startups through Redesign Health. In 2023, she was selected for the Frist Cressey Ventures Collective, an innovation-focused network of healthcare leaders, where she continues to engage on policy priorities, industry transformation and emerging models of care.

Shapiro earned a Master of Business Administration with honors in healthcare management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in biopsychology with distinction from the University of Michigan.