Women in Leadership Spotlight

Some leaders inherit systems. Others decide those systems can work better.

Stacey Finster is one of them.

Healthcare has long struggled with fragmentation. Patients move from visit to visit and provider to provider, often carrying the burden of coordination themselves. Stacey saw that not as an inconvenience, but as a structural failure worth correcting. She founded Healthyr on the belief that support should extend beyond the appointment and that meaningful access should not depend on proximity alone.

That conviction set the standard early. It guides how partnerships are chosen, how priorities are set, and how success is evaluated. Growth alone has never been enough. What matters is whether the work improves the experience of care in real, measurable ways.

What defines Stacey’s leadership most clearly is her insistence on seeing everything through the patient’s lens. In every discussion, the conversation inevitably returns to the same questions: Is this intuitive? Does this add real value? Does it make someone’s hardest day more manageable? She reminds us that behind every data point and performance metric is a person navigating uncertainty, recovery, diagnosis, or prevention. That awareness shapes the product in ways dashboards alone never could.

Healthyr stands where it does today because Stacey refused to accept a lower bar. The expectations are higher, the accountability is real, and patients are better supported as a result.

In a sector where women represent just 9.7% of CEOs in HealthTech and roughly 15% of CEO roles across healthcare, her leadership carries weight, not because of the statistic, but as proof of what is possible.

This Women’s History Month, we recognize a CEO who did not wait for permission to lead differently.

She simply did.