Barbara Ladon
Managing Director and Vice President, Client Services
Barbara Ladon is a senior executive with extensive experience providing project management, leadership development, strategy and business transformation.
Ms. Ladon’s role includes creating executable business plans/processes that ensure that the company can meet and exceed client goals, objectives and contractual obligations, manages budgets and ensures resources are allocated effectively, manages client accounts and communicates with clients on business issues. She also monitors and tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess progress towards goals and identify areas for improvement.
Ms. Ladon has provided senior level project management and served as VP, Client Services for multiple public, private and non-profit projects, including those with Antelope Valley Health System, Beacon Behavioral Health, Children’s Hospital of Oakland, CHOC Children’s, CHRISTUS Health System Texas and New Mexico, Colorado Medicaid Agency (HCPF), Kaiser (multiple states), LA County District Attorney’s office, New Mexico Human Services, University of California Irvine, and University of Southern California.
For eight years, she was the Director of the Colorado CHIP program (CHP+) and a member of the Senior Management Team to the State’s Medicaid and CHIP programs with a budget exceeding $2 billion. She has served as VP Government Services for United Healthcare corporate, overseeing the design and implementation of innovative government programs in multiple states and was the primary liaison with state clients. She was an owner of HealthPro, a national evaluation research and care management firm serving one million public sector or union enrollees. In these roles, she was the thought leader working with legislators, governor’s offices, union representatives and senior State administrators tailoring programs to address each state’s unique needs, concerns and budgetary constraints.
She has held a research faculty position at the University of Virginia. Barbara earned her Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Virginia and her BA from the George Washington University.