Sweden’s Healthcare Innovation Chief (Göran Henriks): Your Hospital Can Drive World-Class Results!
Göran Henriks served as the Chief Executive for Learning & Innovation in Jönköping, Sweden, for nearly 30 years and is globally recognized for pioneering co-production and radical customization in healthcare delivery. He advises governments, health systems, and academic institutions around the world, and if you’re wrestling with cost, quality, or burnout, he has already solved versions of your problems at population scale.
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Sweden's Jönköping County has become the model that every high-performing health system in the world studies. Under Göran Henriks' leadership over nearly three decades, they built a culture of continuous improvement that didn't depend on mandates or external pressure — it was driven by frontline staff who were trusted, trained, and empowered to redesign care around patients. In this conversation, Göran explains what Jönköping actually did differently, why 'co-production' is more than a buzzword, and what U.S. health systems would need to change structurally to achieve comparable results.
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Göran Henriks
Chief Executive for Learning & Innovation (Retired) · Region Jönköping, Sweden
Göran Henriks served as Chief Executive for Learning and Innovation in Jönköping County, Sweden, for nearly 30 years — building one of the world's most celebrated examples of systematic quality improvement and co-production in healthcare delivery. Under his leadership, Jönköping became a global laboratory for what's possible when a health system commits fully to continuous learning, staff empowerment, and radical customization of care. He now advises health systems and governments worldwide, and is a faculty member at multiple international institutions including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.