Shannon Kennedy is the Founder and CEO of Sekhmet Advisors, bringing over thirty years of experience across healthcare policy, regulation, compliance, privacy, and AI ethics. A resourceful and compassionate healthcare executive, she is recognized for helping organizations navigate complexity with clarity—identifying opportunity where others see constraint. Her work focuses on advancing equitable, culturally responsive models of care and supporting ethical technology transformation, particularly for rural and community health organizations.

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Shannon’s leadership extends across healthcare policy advisory, compliance strategy, and emerging technology governance. She is deeply committed to democratizing innovation, including donating strategic consulting support to healthcare startups developing responsible artificial intelligence solutions for population health. Known for her belief in knowledge abundance, she openly shares insight and lessons learned to help organizations innovate faster, smarter, and with greater integrity. As Non-Executive Chair and Senior Executive Fellow in Healthcare Innovation at The Digital Economist, Shannon convenes global innovators, policymakers, and technologists to design more intelligent, resilient, and equitable health systems. She advises health technology ventures aligned with her mission to expand access to care, championing a unified approach where bold ideas, practical execution, and human compassion work together to improve health outcomes at scale.