Leadership & Advisory Board
Curt Lucas
Curt Lucas is the Managing Partner and Founding Chairman of InveniasPartners, based in Chicago and Los Angeles. With more than 30 years of executive search experience, Curt has successfully conducted over 650 senior leadership engagements across the healthcare sector. His work spans integrated delivery systems, academic medical and health sciences centers, investor-owned healthcare enterprises, physician group practices, and managed care organizations.
Curt has led numerous high-profile C-suite and board-level searches for leading healthcare organizations, including Providence Health, University of Virginia Health, Huntington Health/Cedars-Sinai, Oregon Health & Science University, BJC Health System, Boston Children’s Hospital, Scripps Health, and University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, among others. His expertise encompasses senior executive roles across operations, finance, clinical leadership, human resources, information technology, physician leadership, and governance.
Prior to founding InveniasPartners, Curt was a Partner with Heidrick & Struggles, where he led the firm’s global Healthcare Services Practice in Chicago. Before that, he spent nearly 20 years with Korn/Ferry International as Managing Director and Senior Client Partner, holding multiple leadership roles within the firm and its healthcare practice. Earlier in his career, Curt worked in hospital administration, most recently serving as Assistant Administrator for Medical Staff Affairs at Christ Hospital in New Jersey.
An active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and the Chicago Health Executives Forum, Curt has also contributed to several nonprofit organizations. He served on the boards of the Chicago Metropolitan YMCA Lawson House and SuperSibs!, an organization supporting siblings of children with cancer. In addition, he spent seven years as President and Board Chair of the Naperville Youth Football League.
Curt earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health Administration from Western Illinois University and a Master of Health Administration (MHA) from Governors State University. During graduate school, he was a national recipient of the Foster G. McGaw Award and served as President of the ACHE Graduate Student Association.