Sharon Scanlan
Partner | Head of Healthcare | Grant Thornton
Experience
Sharon is a consulting partner, leading Grant Thornton healthcare and life sciences practices. She is a qualified nurse and physiotherapist with 16 years of experience in Ireland and the UK. Sharon brings significant frontline healthcare operations experience and has a proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale healthcare transformation and improvement programmes across the public and private sectors.
Sharon is a trained expert in service and pathway redesign, with specialised knowledge in quality improvement and change management tools and techniques.
She has expertise in clinical areas such as scheduled care (outpatient departments and theatres), urgent and emergency care, primary care, and clinical care pathways. Sharon specialises in developing bespoke solutions for clients, tailored to add value, reduce costs, and enhance efficiencies.
Qualifications
First-class Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Hertfordshire, where she placed first in her cohort
Masters in Physiotherapy from King’s College London
First-class degree in General Nursing from University College Cork (UCC)
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt practitioner
Change Management practitioner certification