Aaron Kull's Blog

The standard leadership advice is simple. It advocates working hard, staying positive, and empowering employees. But what happens when there are substantial challenges along the way? For Aaron Kull, that’s where real leadership begins.  Kull knows his stuff. An entrepreneur, consultant, and former health care executive, he’s bounced between industries and worked at a wide variety of companies, from small-scale businesses to massive corporations.  Along the way, he’s faced his share of obstacles. From organizational challenges to ethical dilemmas, he’s encountered a variety of hurdles that aren’t always discussed in traditional stewardship courses.  The first step to effective captaincy during hard times is self-discovery, he explained. Leaders need to know themselves before they can hope to inspire others with their vision. Not only must a leader know themself, but a leader must also deeply know their team, and what motivates and inspires them. A servant and empathetic l...

  New leaders are often tasked with enacting change. In the world of tech this means meeting a desired set of outcomes, many of which are new, visionary and have never been achieved before. But turning that vision into reality, especially as a company is growing and innovating can be extremely difficult, and requires careful maneuvering across several aspects of the business simultaneously,  according to entrepreneur, health care executive, and consultant Aaron Kull. No matter if a company brings in an executive with a mandate for change or an ambitious manager wants to improve his team’s output, driving meaningful change within a company takes more than desire and a plan.  Leadership is a muscle that, like any other, must be grown and molded through concentrated effort. Much of that molding comes through experience , and who you are as a leader is the product of how you navigate your experiences. “As I grew in my career, I think the things that shaped me most effectivel...

There’s no denying that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the overall health care system is still recovering. Stealth Health Tech CEO Aaron Kull took a long, hard look at the state of the sector today, and zeroed in on some key areas that will need a focus for the future of the industry. An experienced operator and innovator — his experience as a leader spanning entrenched and emerging issues — predicts that staffing shortages, changes in health care coverage, and health equity, will be some of the critical focus areas for the future of health care.  “Post-pandemic, every health care organization has realized the impact of effective community and population health management. All providers are facing a two-sided challenge: trying to more effectively care for their communities at large, while experiencing increasingly challenging circumstances driven by decreasing reimbursement rates, staffing shortages, and a growing population of people that need care in different means and w...

Aaron Kull is proud to be a disrupter. In a varied career that’s landed him in the CEO seat of startup Stealth Health Tech, Kull knows a thing or two about steering the ship — and he’s willing to share tips and tactics that make a successful leader. “Transparency, truth, and consistency to the degree possible is really important from a leader,” he advises. “I think that leading with being able to make decisions that are congruent with the destiny that you hope to achieve for the business and the mission that you’ve explained to the people that are along the ride with you is really, really important. Being able to make prudent decisions that help the organization achieve those goals and to look far enough out into the future to be able to understand what unforeseen circumstances might arise that help you get there.”  Best in KLAS One of Kull’s proudest moments was leading a small organization’s pivot from staff augmentation to strategic services and achieving a No. 1 Best in KLAS a...