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Jennifer Sonneland
Senior Associate
St. Louis MO USA
Get in TouchJennifer Sonneland, a senior associate in WittKieffer’s Healthcare Practice, brings to her role more than 15 years of executive recruiting experience. She prides herself on building strong, lasting relationships with clients and candidates. She earns trust through transparency, whether speaking candidly with clients about their leadership needs and challenges or giving candidates honest assessments of their suitability for key positions.
Based in St. Louis, Jennifer supports the recruitment of a broad mix of executives for large integrated health systems, academic medicine institutions, medical groups, clinically integrated networks, accountable care organizations, and managed care organizations. She is a quick study and thus for any client excels at the full range of recruiting functions, from developing sourcing strategies to conducting interviews to referencing.
Prior to joining WittKieffer, Jennifer held the role of senior associate consultant with a nationally recognized healthcare executive and physician search firm. She recruited for physician executive and administrative leadership roles for healthcare clients, focused primarily on C-suite and vice president searches. Earlier in her career, she held positions of increasing responsibility within a nationally recognized physician recruitment and client services firm.
Jennifer strives to continuously develop her own career and has achieved certifications in internet recruiting as well as candidate research. In her personal life, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three young children.
Distinctions
AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter
American Management Association, Strategies for Developing Effective Presentation Skills
Certified Researcher/Associate, Associate of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC)
Education
B.S., Communications, Boston University
Expertise
Children’s Hospitals
Clinical Leadership
Managed Care
Nursing
Operations
Physician Integration and Leadership