Marni Stahlman

Marni has a 36-year career in C-suite health care delivery management in medical, educational and mental and behavioral health care organizations. She is currently the President/CEO of the Mental Health Association of Central Florida, Inc (www.mhacf.org) one of the oldest nonprofits in Central Florida (1946) and the leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting mental wellness and equity of access to mental health care by providing mental health services, support and information to the members of the Central Florida community. Additionally, she has been an Adjunct Professor in the department of Social Innovation at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL since 2019.
Prior to her current role, Marni was President/CEO for five years of Shepherd’s Hope (www.shepherdshope.org) the largest free and charitable clinic system in Florida with 5 locations that cumulatively provided, through her tenure, over 221,000 free, acute care and specialty care patient visits to the uninsured. Preceding Shepherd’s Hope, Stahlman was the Senior Director of Operations at United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida (www.ucpcfl.org) for six years where she oversaw pediatric physical, occupational and speech therapy outpatient services, across seven locations, for approximately 800 patients.
Stahlman’s behavioral care expertise arose when she was made the first female CEO of a large hospital in Central Florida, of Laurel Oaks Behavioral Healthcare, an 80-bed adolescent in- patient and out-patient facility with 150+ employees and an onsite Charter School. While there, Marni developed companywide clinical and performance management protocols for a national behavioral healthcare network, re-engineered the system’s clinical programs, and initiated new on-site/home based clinical programs while successfully leading a JCAHO re-accreditation.