Karl Rishe Joins Children’s Hospital Association as Chief Learning and Member Experience Officer

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) announced Karl Rishe, EdD, as the association’s chief learning and member experience officer. Rishe will lead the Learning and Member Experience department at CHA. He is an experienced executive leader with a successful track record in leading teams, delivering impactful programs, and building knowledge sharing across organizations.

“I am looking forward to building exciting new educational programs and supporting our membership during this important time for children’s health care and hospitals,” said Rishe. “Our member hospitals are at the heart of CHA’s work, and I am excited to develop member engagement goals and educational programming to build value for our membership and deliver the best care possible for children across the nation.”

Rishe has decades of experience in higher education and health care and has dedicated his career to leadership development and strategic planning. He has served in leadership at colleges and universities across the Midwest and will bring a talent for building strong relationships and collaborative, results-driven teams to his work at CHA.

“Karl will bring his years of experience in leading teams and executing effective programmatic strategy to this new role at CHA, and we are looking forward to working with him as he helps us create even more value for our member hospitals,” said CHA President and CEO Matthew Cook. “We have much work to do to support access to informed pediatric care, and he will be instrumental in building onto our learning and membership divisions in the coming years.”

Most recently Rishe served as director of client relations and senior consultant at the telos institute, an organizational development firm.