The CareStar Leaders Table™ is a leadership knowledge platform where the experiences, decisions, failures, innovations, and strategies of health and social care executives are transformed into practical learning that accelerates better leadership across the industry.
Season One: Building the Systems Behind Better Care
Healthcare transformation is no longer defined by clinical excellence alone. The future of care depends on how effectively health systems connect with housing, nutrition, behavioral health, community organizations, and the social infrastructure that shapes health outcomes long before a patient enters a hospital.
The CareStar Leaders Table™, presented by The Anchor Group, brings together the executives who are building these systems every day. These are the leaders designing partnerships, scaling innovative models, overcoming operational barriers, and proving that integrated care is not simply a vision — it is an operational reality.
Rather than focusing on headlines or theory, every conversation explores the leadership decisions, strategic thinking, operational challenges, and lessons learned from those transforming health and social care from the inside out.
Each discussion is intentionally structured into a practical learning curriculum, ensuring that what you learn today can be applied by your leadership team tomorrow.
Six domains, one connected system
Together, these six domains reveal how connected systems — not isolated programs — create healthier communities and better outcomes.
Why the CareStar Leaders Table™ Is Different
Every guest is responsible for designing, leading, or transforming the systems they discuss. These are practitioners sharing lived executive experience — not commentators reflecting from the sidelines.
Every episode follows a consistent leadership framework that transforms authentic conversations into practical lessons, strategic insights, and operational tools leaders can immediately apply.
Whether you are a CEO, executive, program director, clinician, board member, or emerging leader, each conversation delivers insights tailored to strategic leadership, operational excellence, workforce development, and governance.
Housing. Nutrition. Maternal Health. Mental Health. Care for Vulnerable Populations. These are not independent issues — they are interconnected drivers of health. Season One explores how leaders are integrating these domains to build more resilient, equitable, and sustainable systems of care.
Eight leaders. One moderator.
How every episode is built
Six consistent chapters turn each leader’s story into a curriculum, not a conversation you simply watch once.
The Leader’s Journey
How they arrived — the path, the mentors, the turning points.
The Challenge
The problem that defined their tenure, in their own words.
The Strategy
The thinking behind the decision — what was weighed, what was risked.
Execution
How the plan actually moved through the organization.
Lessons Learned
What they’d do differently — and what they’d never change.
The Future
Where they see the field, and their organization, heading next.
Insight, translated for every seat at the table
Each episode closes with takeaways built for four different audiences inside your organization.
Executive Insights
Strategic takeaways framed for peer-level decision-making at the top of the organization.
Workforce Applications
What the lesson means for the people actually delivering care day to day.
Boardroom Perspectives
The oversight and fiduciary implications a board should be asking about.
Action Challenges
One specific, immediate step a leader can take before the next episode airs.
Three Key Leadership Lessons — every episode closes with a mid-point and end-of-episode summary, distilling the conversation into the three ideas an executive audience should walk away remembering.
The leaders at the table
Seven conversations across housing, nutrition, maternal health, mental health, and care for vulnerable populations.
When Strategy Meets Reality: What Leaders Get Wrong About Scaling Community Care
Housing as Infrastructure: Redesigning the Foundations of Care
Building Health & Behavioral Solutions Targeting Children & Vulnerable Groups
Technology Doesn’t Fix Culture: What Healthcare Leaders Learned the Hard Way
Maternal Health Beyond the Clinic: Leadership Lessons in Community-Based Care
Mental Health as Community Infrastructure: What Leaders Must Build Beyond Clinical Care
Food as Infrastructure: Building Nutrition Systems that Deliver Health, Equity, and Dignity
“Kevin Howell leads each conversation with the discipline of a peer, not an interviewer — drawing out the strategy, the risk, and the reasoning behind decisions that shaped the organizations at the table.”
Bring the Table to Your Organization
Season One premieres in July. Follow the conversation as each new episode is released, or bring the complete curriculum into your organization’s leadership development program. Equip your leaders with practical strategies, operational insights, and forward-thinking approaches they can apply immediately.