Candidate for
Board Member; Mendocino Coast Health Care District

Founder and chief executive of Imagine What If, Inc., Joe Flower has been writing, speaking, and consulting about hospitals and healthcare for over 25 years.

He is author or co-author of several books including:

• The 21st Century Healthcare Leader (Jossey-Bass 1999 - co-author)
• Leading Change: A Key Challenge for Board-Management Teams (The Governance Institute, 1998)
• Best Practices in Collaboration to Improve Health: Creating Community Jazz, (principal co-author), The Healthcare Forum and the California Wellness Foundation, 1996

Flower is principal author of the landmark forecast, "Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology," Journal of the American College of Cardiology (vol. 35, no. 4, 2000). His recent clients include the World Health Organization, the United States Department of Defense, and the UK National Health Service, as well as hospitals large and small, urban and rural, across the United States and Canada.