Richard Gregg, MBA

Biography

Professor Gregg's career has focused on the strategic management and change for healthcare organizations, both in the field and in academia. Beginning in 1976, he was a management consultant to healthcare organizations, then served as director and CEO of the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, the largest yoga and holistic health center in the United States. Since coming to Suffolk in 2001, he served as the executive director of the graduate program in philanthropy and media, taught in the MPA Program, and served as the program director and chair of healthcare administration. He developed the Healthcare Internship Program, Healthcare Mentor Program, Healthcare Travel Seminar and the Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, along with several new courses. His areas of particular interest and expertise are leadership, innovation, strategy development and implementation, and organizational learning and change.

In 2022-2023, while on a reduced teaching load, he served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Community Health Programs (CHP) in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. This followed six years as a member of the Board of Directors. CHP is a federally qualified health center that serves more than 30,000 patients and family services clients. After leaving CHP, Professor Gregg wrote about his experiences there in a Suffolk healthcare administration newsletter piece entitled "What I learned as a CEO. He also drew on his experiences at CHP for a presentation entitled "How Innovations are Transforming Primary Care, and the Implications for Community Health Centers", which he delivered to the Community Health Institute of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers.

As an environmentalist, Professor Gregg was a leader in the "Idle-Free" movement that encourages drivers to stop idling in order to protect our health and environment. He served as chairman of the "Idle-Free" Massachusetts Campaign of the American Lung Association, and his efforts to reduce motor vehicle air pollution resulted in a Massachusetts law — "An Act to Improve School Campus Air Quality" — that limits engine idling on every school property in the Commonwealth. The law was signed by Governor Deval Patrick in 2008 and ensures cleaner, safer air for the 1,000,000 young people who attend school and everyone else that works at and visits the schools. Professor Gregg was honored with the Healthy Air Award from the American Lung Association, and he was named as a "Climate Champion" by Clean Air Cool Planet, a non-profit organization that creates partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions.

Professional Activities

• Interim Chief Executive Officer, 2022-2023, Board of Directors member, 2016-2022, and Philanthropy Committee member 2023-present, Community Health Programs (CHP), a federally qualified health center in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts
• Faculty Associate, American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), 2006-present
• Member, Program Committee of the ACHE of Massachusetts, 2017-present
• Member, Board of the ACHE of Massachusetts, representing the academic programs in the ACHE Higher Education Network (HEN), 2014-2017

Honors and Awards

• John Brennan Award for Outstanding Instruction to Graduate Students, Graduate Student Association, Suffolk University, 2006, 2008, and 2013
• SBS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service, Suffolk University, 2016
• ACHE Service Award, national ACHE and the ACHE of Massachusetts, December 2020

Intellectual Contributions

• Richard Gregg's Intellectual Contributions [PDF]