Join us for a live conversation with Elena Lytkina Botelho, author of The CEO Next Door and advisor to leading CEOs, boards, and investors, and Erica Schwartz, who served as the Rear Admiral of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States, as they discuss and share lessons in leadership.

About the guest speakers:

Elena Lytkina Botelho has been a Partner at ghSMART since 2007. She is a highly sought-after advisor for leading CEOs, boards, and investors globally. Elena initiated and co-leads The CEO Genome Project® featured in a cover article of Harvard Business Review and in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller book The CEO Next Door. The CEO Genome Project® is an extensive research and client practice supporting CEOs, executives on the path to CEO, and boards managing all stages of CEO succession. The research explores paths and behaviors that lead to the top, typical setbacks CEOs encounter and ways to prevent them. This research and insights have been featured in leading CEO forums, on TEDxUPenn, CNN.com, other major media and conferences.

Prior to joining ghSMART, Elena was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where for six years she advised CEOs and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies and major private equity players on the issues of M&A, business strategy, organizational change (including CEO “100 day” plans), and operations. Her clients included major corporations in media, technology, and financial services industries. Elena was a core member of the McKinsey Media & Entertainment practice and authored several publications on advertising sales strategies, marketing effectiveness, and organizational transformation. Elena led design and rollout of a new candidate assessment system across McKinsey US offices and has been actively involved in candidate assessment, training, and coaching since 1999.

Prior to McKinsey Elena started her career in finance and accounting, first with Andersen Worldwide in New York and later with AIG-Brunswick private equity in Moscow, Russia. Elena actively supports non-profit institutions including Social Finance, Washington National Cathedral Schools, The Economic Club of New York, and others. Elena holds an MBA in finance from Wharton. She received a CPA license and a BS in Accounting with Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Binghamton. Elena completed Leadership Coaching certification at Georgetown University. She also completed three years at the Moscow State Pedagogical University majoring in education, with coursework in psychology. Elena lives in Washington DC with her family.

Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH brings more than 25 years of distinguished service to the nation’s health policies, programs and administration. She is currently serving as the Insurance Solutions President within United Healthcare Medicare and Retirement.  She previously served as the Deputy Surgeon General for the Department of Health and Human Services, where she led the country’s public health deployment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to her role as the Deputy Surgeon General, Dr. Schwartz spent 24 years in uniformed service, during which time she was promoted through the ranks to Rear Admiral of the U.S. Coast Guard, where she served as the Chief Medical Officer and Director of Health, Safety, and Work Life from 2015-2019. In that capacity, she was responsible for the Coast Guard’s health care system. She also oversaw the Coast Guard’s childcare, substance abuse prevention, suicide prevention, special needs, family advocacy, and sexual assault prevention and response programs, among others.

Dr. Schwartz also served as the U.S. Coast Guard’s Chief of Health Services from 2013-2015 and Preventive Medicine Chief from 2005-2013, where she instituted critical inter- and intra-agency programs including Navy Safe Harbor, disease surveillance, deployment health, and the chemical, biological, and radiological medical countermeasures programs. During this time, she also served as the Coast Guard’s principal expert on the pandemic influenza and developed health protection guidance for armed forces deployments following numerous contingencies operations such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the West Africa Ebola outbreak.

Dr. Schwartz is trained and Board certified in Preventive Medicine. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University, an M.D. from Brown University School of Medicine, a Master of Public Health degree with a dual concentration in health services administration and occupational and environmental medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.

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