Anne Wichels-Schnieber

I am a medical doctor, since 11 years focusing on top level executive search. I have a special interest in promoting diversity in leadership positions. My focus areas are healthcare (doctors and management) as well as the public sector, especially academic institutions.

Anne co-founded New Chapter as a boutique leadership advisory and executive search in early 2021, providing support to organisations in healthcare and beyond to find the best people for their leadership teams.

Previously, she co-founded KDD Digital Healthcare, a startup providing mobile digital solutions for hospital staff, with a successful exit of the company in September 2020.

Before that, Anne was an Executive Director at Russell Reynolds Associates, a leading global Executive Search firm. For 8 years, she worked with leading organizations across the Healthcare sector, with Universities and global Nonprofit organisations. She advised her clients on a range of organisational and leadership topics and placed senior executives across their organisation.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Anne worked with McKinsey & Company's healthcare practice for five years. She was the Head of McKinsey's Hospital Academy, an institution for clinical leadership development and management education. There, she developed and conducted leadership development programs, assessments and personal coaching for top hospital management and senior clinicians as well as for payer and government executives. As an Engagement Manager, she worked with leading hospital chains, academic medical centers, payers and government institutions across Europe on strategic, organizational and operational topics. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Resident Physician in internal medicine at Albertinen-Krankenhaus, Hamburg and at the Clinica Universidad Catolica, Santiago de Chile.

Anne received her medical and doctoral degrees from the Charité Medical School Berlin and attended Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden for part of her medical studies. Anne speaks fluent English, German and has working knowledge of Swedish and Spanish.