Building Sustainable Pipelines to Attract & Retain Critical Roles in Healthcare
Stride Funding revolutionizes talent acquisition and retention through customized education-to-career pathways. Stride's approach offers a stronger ROI by enabling health systems to compete better (and earlier) for skilled talent, and retain talent longer. Learn how they vet, match, and engage in-school talent for health systems, facilitate students' upfront education financing, and provide employers with a low-risk, high-reward model for building engaged, loyal, and sustainable pipelines of talent.
Attendees will walk away with:
- New ways to find and acquire talent
- How to guarantee retention for 3+ years after hire
- How to reduce dependency on contract labor
- Ways to save on recruiting and turnover costs, including sign-on bonuses
Tess Michaels

Tess Michaels is the Founder and CEO of Stride Funding, a mission-driven company tackling the healthcare labor shortage. Stride connects health systems, high-quality schools, and diverse talent to transform access to career pathways. Stride’s innovative approach helps build & retain pipelines of talent, while increasing access and affordability for students, through employer-sponsored student loan programs. Tess grew up in a healthcare family and founded Stride from a student-first perspective as an MBA at Harvard Business School. Tess is also recognized as a member of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in education.
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