Chief of Staff

The Center for Sleep Medicine , a 100% employee-owned company is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and results-driven Chief of Staff to partner directly with the CEO in executing organizational priorities, strengthening culture, and driving alignment across our six locations.

This is a unique opportunity for a high-impact leader who thrives on turning strategy into action, managing complex initiatives, building relationships, and creating a consistent employee and patient experience across a growing healthcare organization.

Position Summary

The Chief of Staff is the CEO's partner in turning priorities into results across all six locations.

This leader takes the organization's strategic direction and makes it happen. They drive key initiatives from plan to completion, keep teams aligned, and ensure every location delivers the same high standard of patient care and workplace experience, so all six locations operate as one practice.

This position reports directly to the CEO and is responsible for driving strategic initiatives, organizational alignment, and culture across all locations.

Location: Travel between six locations required (throughout the Chicagoland-area)

Schedule: Monday - Thursday | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Why Join Us?

• This role offers the opportunity to work directly with executive leadership and make a meaningful impact on the future of the organization, our employees, and the patients we serve.
• We are a 100% Employee-Owned company (ESOP - Employee Stock Ownership Plan) which means employees own shares of the company!
• 4-day work week
• Growth and leadership opportunities
• Generous benefits

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Execution:

• Translate CEO directives and organizational priorities into clear plans, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead high-priority, cross-functional initiatives, including new service lines, process standardization, technology implementations, and growth initiatives.
• Monitor progress toward strategic goals and provide regular updates, recommendations, and risk assessments to the CEO.
• Drive accountability across departments and locations to ensure successful execution of key priorities.
• Serve as a connector between physician leadership, operational leaders, managers, and department heads.
• Lead organizational change initiatives and support teams through implementation and adoption.

Culture & Employee Engagement:

• Define, communicate, and reinforce organizational values, service standards, and workplace expectations.
• Create a consistent employee experience across all locations, including onboarding, communication, recognition, engagement, and leadership development.
• Regularly visit locations to understand challenges, identify opportunities, and strengthen connections throughout the organization.
• Champion employee engagement, retention, and professional growth initiatives.
• Gather and act upon employee feedback to continuously improve workplace culture.

Organizational Alignment:

• Establish effective communication and accountability structures across the organization.
• Identify operational and cultural gaps between locations and lead efforts to create consistency and best practices.
• Facilitate collaboration across departments and locations to support organizational goals.
• Act on behalf of the CEO on designated projects and initiatives.
• Help resolve cross-functional challenges and remove barriers to success.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, continuous improvement, and teamwork.

What Success Looks Like:

• Strategic initiatives are completed on time and achieve intended outcomes.
• Employees across all locations understand and embrace the organization's mission, values, and expectations.
• Employee engagement and retention improve.
• Processes and service standards become more consistent across locations.
• Communication and collaboration strengthen throughout the organization.
• Patients receive a positive and consistent experience regardless of location.
• The CEO gains greater capacity to focus on physician relationships, growth opportunities, long-term planning, and organizational vision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required ; MBA, MHA, or related advanced degree strongly preferred .
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience.
• Healthcare, multi-site medical practice, or service-based organization experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading organization-wide initiatives, operational improvements, and change management efforts.
• Proven ability to build culture and engage teams across multiple locations.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and influence skills.
• Strong organizational, planning, and project management abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Highly accountable, adaptable, and comfortable working independently.
• Willingness to travel regularly between all six locations.

Studies have shown that as an employee-owned company, our team members can potentially receive between 5% and 12% more in wages, and 2.5x greater wealth in retirement accounts when compared to similar positions in centers that are not employee owned. Employee-owned companies, like ours, are also more successful in recruiting talented, committed staff. If that's you, we look forward to discussing this opportunity with you.

This pay range reflects the Company's current estimate for this position at the time of posting. In accordance with applicable law, actual compensation will be determined based on relevant experience and other job-related qualifications or skills. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

For this role, benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(K), ESOP; vacation days; paid time off (PTO); sick days; and voluntary life, short-term disability (STD), and long-term disability (LTD) insurance.

NO PHONE CALLS WILL BE ACCEPTED

Pay: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Are you willing and able to travel between all six of our Chicagoland locations as needed for this position?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Progressive Leadership: 10 years (Required)

Work Location: In person