October 2026 - NABIP Alaska Monthly Meeting (07 Oct 2026)

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:30:00 GMT

The Invisible Line Item: How Leadership Drives Healthcare Performance

Leadership is one of healthcare’s most powerful and most overlooked cost drivers. This session shows how communication, trust, accountability, coaching and agility shape workforce stability, operational reliability, quality outcomes and financial performance.

Attendees will learn how turnover, disengagement and communication failures create hidden risk, and why strengthening leadership systems delivers more sustainable results than treating symptoms. Leadership isn’t a soft skill; it’s a strategic lever every healthcare organization should be talking about.

About Our Speaker:

Lucretia J. Craig, RN, BSN, MSM, CPC Co-Founder, Gemini Exec & Pro Coaching

A veteran healthcare clinician and executive who brings a passion to coaching, leadership development and keynote speaking. As a professionally trained nurse, I bring compassion and high ethical standards to thought partnership. As an experienced leader, professional development and optimization of one’s potential is paramount.

Lucretia has earned a certification by the College of Executive Coaching.

Key experience

• GE Healthcare: Designed, developed and merged IT systems for improved efficiency, higher quality scores and greater profitability. Led a team of engineers globally to meet and exceed customer expectations

• Medtronic: As a regional economics manager, consulted with executives in a large multistate region, to improve economic knowledge, value to excel in quality patient care earlier in the disease process positively impacting financial outcomes

• HCA: Division Vice President for one of the largest for-profit health systems, influencing improved satisfaction of providers in 14 diverse localities across four states

• Freeman Health System: Chief Nursing Officer for multi-hospital health system driving improved retention rates among more than 1500 professionals while driving excellence in quality metrics and outcomes

• Olathe Health System: Led the genesis of a formal cardiology program and, over 13 years, tripled original volumes. Led construction of the Imaging Pavilion and coordinated collaboration between Radiology & Cardiology teams for optimized IT system (PACS) expansion and staffing expertise. Achieved the lowest turnover rates among physicians and staff, and the highest patient and staff satisfaction

November 2026 - NABIP Alaska Monthly Meeting (04 Nov 2026)

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:30:00 GMT

Herding Cats: How to Attempt to Lower Cost Drivers in Workers’ Compensation

Workers’ compensation in Alaska is a moving target, and the cost drivers aren’t always where employers think they are. This session breaks down the statutes, the biggest MOD pressures and the practical levers employers and brokers can actually pull to reduce indemnity exposure and improve outcomes.

Attendees will walk away with a clearer understanding of Alaska’s WC framework, the real-world factors that inflate claims and the strategies that meaningfully shift cost trends.

About Our Speaker:

Martha T. Tansik, CMSP, MSCC – Shareholder Attorney, Meshke, Paddock, & Budzinski

Martha is a shareholder at Meshke, Paddock, & Budzinski. She attended night law school at Seattle University while working at Seattle Children’s Hospital in hospital administration/external affairs. She interned with the legal department (addressing medical licensing and compliance, bioethics, and land use permitting during the hospital’s expansion). Martha’s undergraduate degree is in International Studies and Latin American Development from the American University in Washington DC. Her primary practice is workers’ compensation defense and subrogation; although Martha also serves as General Counsel for the Alaska Baha’i Community, a 501(c)(3).

She holds two national level industry certifications (MSCC and CMSP) for Medicare Secondary Payor issues. Originally from North Carolina, she has lived and worked on three continents. She is a Board member of AWAIC; co-leads her daughter’s Brownie Girl Scout Troop (let her know if you need a cookie dealer!); and loves travelling with her family/friends, photography, shoes and ice cream.

NABIP Alaska Chapter upcoming events

October 2026 - NABIP Alaska Monthly Meeting (07 Oct 2026)

November 2026 - NABIP Alaska Monthly Meeting (04 Nov 2026)