Curt Lindberg, Waitsfield, VT

Curt Lindberg, DMan, MHA, is Principal and Senior Consultant in Partners in Complexity, an organization that specializes in facilitating improvement and change initiatives using new theories and processes inspired by complexity science and implementation science. He helped introduce the social and behavioral change process, Positive Deviance (PD), into healthcare in North and South America and served as principal investigator on the first significant multi-hospital application in the US. He coauthored Inviting Everyone: Healing Healthcare through Positive Deviance.

In recent years he has been active in developing and diffusing Relational Coordination theory in healthcare in the United States. He has led Relational Coordination-informed initiatives to improve the quality of care in an intensive care unit, in a family medicine practice, a federally-qualified health center, in case management process in a large health insurer, and in joint replacement surgery. He also helped integrate Relational Coordination into the culture of Cabin Creek Health Systems and Billings Clinic.

Lindberg holds a masters degree in healthcare administration and a doctorate in complexity science and social change which he earned at University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Lindberg has played an important role in bringing complexity science concepts into healthcare and management. He has written numerous articles and coauthored several books, including Edgeware: Lessons From Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders and On the Edge: Nursing in the Age of Complexity.