Mary Stutts is CEO of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), a global organization whose mission is to further the advancement and impact of women in healthcare. The HBA is in 80 countries with over 160 corporate partners representing workforces of approximately five million employees.

Stutts is one of the leading voices championing organizational readiness for inclusive leadership, workforces that are representative of all stakeholders and health equity that drives maximum market penetration, at some of the world’s most prominent biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare and media companies including Genentech, Bristol Myers Squibb, Bayer, UnitedHealth Group, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Health Care and Comcast NBCUniversal. She has advised and consulted for public, private and academic organizations, is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader.

She serves on the advisory boards of private companies Wellist, Trial Library, Slone Partners and Hawthorne Effect. She previously served on the Board of Zogenix before it was acquired by UCB.

Stutts is an accomplished author who provides an in-depth analysis of ongoing exclusionary practices in the workplace, details the path needed to achieve true “cultures of inclusion” and has been dubbed a surrogate mentor for women focused on career advancement.

Stutts background led her to form The Center for Excellence in Life (TCEL), a 501c3 organization focused on developing underrepresented and underestimated youth and women aspiring to leadership positions. TCEL’s Virtual Internship Program to help prepare underrepresented youth for the healthcare workforce of the future has received nationwide recognition and media coverage.

Stutts earned a Master of Health Administration degree from the University of Southern California and is a graduate of the Executive Program on Strategy and Organization at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.