Leah Konwinski

Leah Konwinski, MS, CPE is a health care embedded Human Factors Engineer and the Director of Human Factors and Innovation at Corewell Health in Michigan. Leah is responsible for driving the organization’s proactive improvement strategy for patient safety, quality, and experience. She and her team specialize in leveraging human-centered systems analysis and participatory design to achieve breakthrough improvement. Their applied research centers around applying resilience engineering and human factors methods to better understand and solve for barriers to simple, satisfying, and safe work. She is internationally recognized as a deep thinker and practitioner of human factors and ergonomics, and a passionate advocate for human-centered design in the healthcare field.

Before her tenure in healthcare, Leah worked in the automotive, food production, aviation, engineering, and product design industries, bringing ergonomics and human factors insights into many design and improvement initiatives. Leah received her Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Guelph and her Masters of Human Kinetics with a focus on Biomechanics and Human Factors from the University of Windsor, both in Ontario, Canada. Leah is a Certified Professional Ergonomist, a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Resilience Engineering Association, and the Human Factors Transforming Healthcare group.