Elizabeth Newman
Elizabeth Newman is the President and CEO of Circle Health Services and The Centers for Families and Children (The Centers), historic human service non-profits serving more than 30,000 people across Northeast Ohio each year. Together, the organizations are leading the way in providing an innovative and integrated model that coordinates health and wellness services, including primary care for children and adults, a specialized teen clinic, behavioral health care, addiction services, HIV treatment and an in-house pharmacy with family support programs, including early childhood development, job training and workplace and workforce development. As affiliated organizations, they operate under a shared leadership structure as one, unified front moving towards a common goal: creating life-changing solutions for those we serve to lead healthier and more successful lives.
Circle Health Services and The Centers provide services through 18 locations supported by more than 650 FTEs with a $66M operating budget. Newman was appointed to the position of CEO for The Centers in May 2015 after serving as The Centers’ Chief Operating Officer and was appointed to her dual role as CEO for Circle Health Services following the organizations’ November 2017 affiliation.
Ms. Newman brings over 15 years of varied and diverse leadership experience in the non-profit, for profit, and government sectors. As Chief Operating Officer at The Centers, Newman had both programmatic and operational responsibilities, including oversight of early learning, workforce and basic needs services as well as key administrative functions. She has helped to establish new partnerships and collaborations to strengthen the organization’s efforts around integrated behavioral health, parent engagement and school readiness. She also led the organization’s effort to become a Head Start grantee on behalf of The Learning Coalition, a network of high-quality early learning providers.
Newman joined The Centers as Vice President for Program Strategy in early 2012 after serving as the lead consultant for its 2011 affiliation with West Side Ecumenical Ministry and El Barrio. Previously, she was a strategic consultant with KPMG specializing in transforming operations and driving change to enable growth, improve performance and maximize resources, serving federal agencies, state and local governments and global corporations. She also worked for the City of Cleveland, where she led a performance measurement and continuous improvement project and numerous community initiatives. Before returning to Cleveland, she served as a public policy analyst and development associate for a New York advocacy organization focused on children living in foster care.
Newman serves on the Board of Directors for the Midtown Development Corporation. She is also a Leadership Cleveland (Class of 2016) and Cleveland Bridge Builders (Class of 2004) alumnus. Newman holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, a Master of Science from the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and a Master of Business Administration from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. She resides in Cleveland with her husband, Marty McGann, and their two daughters.