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Stephanie Spry
Healthcare & Life Sciences
“Stephanie built the recruiting benchmarks and systems HHS runs on today. What stands out is who she keeps showing up for: transitioning veterans she's building a real leadership path for, dietitians she's publicly fighting to get treated as full clinical partners instead of support staff. She's said the real problem behind most staffing gaps isn't a lack of people, it's a lack of visibility, exactly the blind spot AI-era hiring exists to close. She builds infrastructure like an engineer and fights for her people like it's personal, because to her, it is.”