Gretchen Berlin

Gretchen is a leader in McKinsey’s Public Sector and Healthcare Practices, as well as our organization work within the Life Sciences Practice, drawing on her in-depth experience in the healthcare industry to serve clients. 

A registered nurse by background, Gretchen has led numerous projects with leading public and private healthcare organizations to develop innovative healthcare strategies and drive sustainable change through frontline-workforce and clinical transformations.  She coleads McKinsey’s provider performance-improvement and federal healthcare work.

Most recently, Gretchen designed and implemented a large transformation for a national public-sector health system to optimize effectiveness and efficiency. She has also led the development of market-level partnerships and large-scale transformations in the private sector to improve quality, access, and efficiency. Gretchen has created workforce strategies for large private-sector hospital systems, focused on improving nursing retention and achieving 5 to 10 percent labor-cost efficiencies through total-reward strategies and changes to core staffing and skill mix.