​​IPC 

Executive Search for Healthcare Leadership

Christy Curtis, MBA, SPHR, ACHE 

Our Team

IPC operates through a highly selective network of experienced healthcare executive search professionals and advisors, engaged based on the scope and needs of each search.​

Laura Shepp serves as IPC's Director of National Client Services, bringing over two decades of experience in staffing, client management, and business development across legal and healthcare sectors.

Known for her ability to connect, lead client initiatives, and align talent strategies with organizational goals, Laura combines strategic insight with a highly relational approach. Her leadership has contributed to 100% client retention and 30% growth over the past 18 months, making her an invaluable partner to both clients and the IPC team.

Our Signature Approach

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​IPC Executive Search is a national healthcare-focused, exclusive, and deeply executed executive search firm—built for outcomes, not volume. Partnering with selected organizations where leadership decisions directly impact patient access, outcomes, and the communities we serve.

With nearly three decades of experience across academic health systems, community hospitals, and critical access environments, as well as termed in-house client contracts navigated within highly complex, unionized and regulated environments, IPC operates as a strategic partner and extension of each client—aligning leadership selection with organizational structure, culture, and long-term performance.

​Laura Shepp, Director National Client Services  

Who We Are

As the Principal and Founder of IPC Executive Search, approaching each engagement with three decades of executive search within healthcare, human resources, and organizational talent strategy. She has partnered with top-tier academic health systems, community and rural-based hospitals, and both public and private organizations, to identify and secure leadership that propels organizational structure, culture, communities forward.

Known for a disciplined, relationship-driven, and integrity-based approach, Christy operates as a strategic extension of her clients—bringing clarity, alignment, and an informed lens to leadership selection. Christy’s is inspired by continuous learning and her passion work is advocating for  diverse, high-caliber talent pipelines that expand entry pathways, and uphold integrity and excellence across the selection process.

Christy has dedicated hundreds of hours to the communities and projects by supporting job coaching, career development, educational grant and training resources, and supporting neurodivergence, later-in-career, work capabilities and adaptations, marginally represented populations, and she is an advocate for prison recidivism reduction through career placement and access to self-sustaining life training and rehabilitation programs.   

We partner with CEOs and Boards to identify high-impact executive leaders—supported by embedded market intelligence, organizational insight, and compensation strategy within every search.  IPC’s approach is intentionally selective and relationship-driven. Engagements are mutually exclusive—one search at a time—avoiding conflicts and candidate overlap across mandates. This allows for deep market insight, disciplined candidate development, and highly aligned client recruitment rather than volume-driven models that introduce competition across client engagements

Beyond executive search, IPC supports organizations through strategic talent procurement, hiring process architecture, and experience design across both candidate and client engagement—bringing clarity, structure, and accountability to leadership selection. From role definition through onboarding and transition, IPC centers process integrity, long-term professional relationships, hiring for retention, and leadership success as the true measure of outcome.Type your paragraph here.