My Community Dental Centers (MCDC) – Michigan

Role Overview

My Community Dental Centers (MCDC) is Michigan’s largest nonprofit dental provider, delivering accessible, high-quality oral health care to Medicaid, Healthy Kids Dental, private insurance, and uninsured patients statewide. Rooted in health equity, community impact, and person-centered care, MCDC serves as a vital public health resource for families and communities across Michigan.

We seek a visionary, mission-grounded, servant-leader CEO who advances a culture of kindness, accountability, operational discipline, and collaborative leadership —ensuring patients, team members, and communities can flourish.

Strategic Leadership & Financial Stewardship

• Champion MCDC’s mission, values, and health-equity commitments across all decisions, partnerships, and public engagement.
• Lead strategic planning, translating mission into clear priorities that strengthen organizational impact and statewide presence.
• Steward financial sustainability through disciplined management, transparency, and proactive adaptation to changing reimbursement, workforce, and policy environments.
• Partner closely with the Board to shape long-range strategy and success measures beyond the annual budget cycle.
• Position MCDC as a national leader and role model for provision of accessible, high-quality oral health care while ensuring resilience and sustainability.

Operating Systems & Execution

• Strengthen and modernize organizational systems—communication flow, operational cadence, decision pathways, and center-level support—to ensure clarity, consistency, and execution at scale.
• Build and reinforce a predictable leadership rhythm across MCDC’s distributed centers, improving coordination between clinical, operational, and administrative teams.
• Instill discipline in follow-through: clear owners, timelines, and accountability norms that support reliable performance.

Talent, Culture & Leadership Development

• Attract, mentor, and retain a high-performing, mission-driven leadership team that embodies MCDC’s values and models collaborative behaviors.
• Build a leadership culture grounded in trust, transparency, and shared responsibility across operations and clinical partners (dyad alignment).
• Ensure leaders at all levels have the tools, coaching, and structure necessary to thrive and grow.

Innovation & Digital Mandate

• Advance a forward-looking digital and operational strategy—including data analytics, workflow automation, AI-enabled tools, and patient-experience improvements—to strengthen clinical outcomes and operational reliability.
• Promote a learning organization that embraces continuous improvement and responsible innovation.

Advocacy, Public Presence & Community Engagement

• Serve as the public voice for MCDC’s mission, advocating for oral health equity, community wellbeing, and access expansion at the state and national level.
• Build strong partnerships with state agencies, payers, community organizations, philanthropy, and policymakers to advance MCDC’s work, increase available resources, and expand impact

Board Partnership & Governance

• Build a transparent, trust-centered partnership with the Board, ensuring alignment on strategy, financial oversight, enterprise risks, and organizational performance.
• Collaborate with the Board Chair and Officers to maintain clear governance rhythms, informed decision-making, and consistent reporting.

Core Executive Competencies

• Servant Leadership & Emotional Intelligence: Leads with humility, empathy, courage, and deep respect for patients and the teams that serve patients.
• Strategic Foresight: Sees around corners, anticipates risks, and positions MCDC proactively for a changing landscape.
• Operational Discipline: Skilled in system-building, execution, and translating strategy into measurable action.
• Change Leadership: Effectively guides complex organizations through transition, ambiguity, and turnaround.
• Community & Equity Orientation: Demonstrates commitment to vulnerable populations, health equity, and inclusive leadership.
• Relationship Mastery: Builds trust quickly with partners, staff, board leaders, and public stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in business, public health, healthcare administration, public policy, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of senior leadership experience in healthcare, provider organizations, community health, or mission-driven nonprofit organizations.
• Minimum 10 years of senior leadership experience in highly complex, geographically distributed healthcare organizations at (or beyond) the size and scope of MCDC.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site clinical operations, financial turnaround or stabilization, cultural transformation, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with governmental partners, boards, and regulated environments.

MCDC is entering a defining chapter. The Board seeks a Chief Executive Officer who will honor its mission, stabilize the present, and help shape a future rooted in dignity, clarity, and community impact. Candidates who bring both proven, steady leadership and inspired vision are strongly encouraged to apply.