Dr. Debra Clary The Clary Group
Dr. Debra Clary is a leadership strategist, award-winning speaker and author. Her bestselling book, “The Curiosity Curve” is known for helping health care leaders navigate complexity, drive performance and lead effectively through constant change. A viral TEDx speaker and former off-Broadway performer, Debra blends research, storytelling and real-world health care leadership experience to challenge outdated leadership models built on certainty and control. She reframes curiosity as a strategic capability — one that strengthens decision-making, improves collaboration and enables leaders and teams to adapt in environments defined by regulation, risk and rapid transformation.
With more than three decades of executive experience, including senior leadership roles at Humana, Debra brings a deep understanding of health care systems, payer-provider dynamics and the operational realities facing today’s health organizations. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, culture, safety and experience — helping leaders move beyond compliance-driven thinking toward high-reliability performance grounded in trust, accountability and engagement. She works with health care organizations across the industry to help leaders ask better questions, build resilient teams and create cultures where performance and humanity coexist.