Waterford Global Leading CEO Search for Southern Health–Santé Sud
April 29, 2026 – Winnipeg, Canada-based Waterford Global Inc. is currently leading the CEO search for Southern Health–Santé Sud (SH-SS). The search is nearing shortlist presentation stage. Working with an engaged board and leading a committed and experienced executive team, this is an opportunity to provide executive-level leadership as CEO of Southern Health-Santé Sud and to build upon a strong foundation of community impact, to envision and create a sustainable and vibrant future for SH-SS, and to ensure the organization’s continued relevancy and impact in serving its constituent communities.
Reporting to the board of directors, the CEO of Southern Health-Santé Sud is the senior-most executive responsible for the overall strategic leadership, operational oversight, and mission alignment of the organization. The CEO ensures that SH-SS fulfills its purpose and successfully executes on its strategic priorities. In advancing the region’s strategic plan and priorities, the CEO also ensures the development of innovative solutions and responses to new and emerging needs among communities in the region.
In providing overall leadership to the organization, the CEO is expected to lead in a manner that best reflects the interests of the organization and its communities, employees, volunteers, partners, the public, government, and other stakeholders while upholding the values of SH-SS, according to the job specification. As the primary spokesperson for SH-SS, the CEO is responsible for advocacy efforts on behalf of the organization, and for maintaining open and transparent communication with the board of directors.
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Southern Health–Santé Sud is one of five regional health authorities in the province of Manitoba, Canada, responsible for delivering a range of healthcare services to residents across a largely rural and small urban geographic area. The region covers communities in southern Manitoba, including areas near the U.S. border and extending west and east of Winnipeg. SH-SS oversees hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and community health programs, providing services such as primary care, public health, mental health support, and emergency care.
Proven Search Firm
Waterford Global Inc. is an international executive search firm specialized in helping clients build senior leadership teams through the acquisition of equally exceptional talent. The firm’s domestic and international clients retain Waterford Global as a strategic partner and advisor in the recruitment of executive-level leaders and mid-to-senior level managerial, technical, and scientific talent. With over 45 years of combined experience between the firm’s two founding partners, Waterford Global is a long-standing provider to private and public-sector clients in key industry verticals.
Karen Swystun is a founding partner of Waterford Global Inc. She has more than 25 years of experience in search and has carried out all levels of technical, scientific, physician, managerial, executive, and board search engagements for a wide variety of clients in both the private and public sectors, nationally and internationally. Recognized and respected as a trusted advisor, Ms. Swystun is often called on to speak about a broad range of issues related to the strategic acquisition of talent and its impact on organizations and on their ability to achieve and exceed goals and objectives.
A founding partner of Waterford Global Inc., with over 20 years of experience in search, Fred Loewen applies his specialized background in competitive intelligence to the search process and the strategic acquisition of technical, scientific, physician, managerial, executive, and board talent for a wide variety of clients in both the private and public sectors, nationally and internationally. His unique capability has been recognized by the Toronto-based Canadian Institute, a leading Canadian think tank, with invitations to speak at and co-develop the Institute’s biennial Conference on Competitive Intelligence.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
