Denise Prindiville is a business consultant and executive coach, based in Toronto, in the health and life sciences sectors. Prindiville offers her experience and skills to her community as an Executive on the Board of Directors for one of Ontario’s largest Family Heath Teams.

She has worked in both the public and private sectors. She was honoured to have once been among 300 young international strategic advisors to then Secretary-General Kofi Annan on combating infectious diseases and access to medicines. From coast to coast, she has helped bring health programs to Indigenous communities and continues to advocate for equitable access to health technologies and services for all populations.

Prindiville believes that managerial effectiveness must consider the human element and the system in which an organization operates. In healthcare, the patient experience and the potential health outcomes are products of more than the application of medical science and provider training. Physician well-being is fundamental to the quality and efficacy of our healthcare system. Physician burnout is a signal for a call-to-action to review management practices.

Prindiville’s research will focus on physician burnout prevention at the systemic and organizational levels, from strategic planning through management practices.

Prindiville’s research will investigate the knowledge gap towards understanding which key organizational and executive management theories and practices will bring a significant and sustainable impact on reducing burnout. This research aims to contribute to the management practice knowledge economy in healthcare.

Prindiville is a Certified Executive Coach from Royal Roads University (2019). She holds a Master of Business Administration, Management of Technology, Biotechnology (2006) from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Science, Cell Biology & Medical Genetics degree from the University of British Columbia (1998).