TARJA HUUSKONEN

CEO
Action for Results

Tarja Huuskonen is the CEO of Action for Results; a consulting firm focused on advancing medical product innovation and delivery, and the host of the Leader’s Agenda, a show designed to elevate leadership impact by creating conversations with leaders and innovators across Life Sciences. 

As a strategic advisor and large-scale change facilitator, Tarja has been transforming healthcare and life sciences organizations globally for nearly three decades.​ Whether shaping the healthcare system, evaluating a global company's innovation capabilities, or upgrading an outdated process, she is a systems thinker focused on connecting the dots that fast-track value to patients.​

She has helped hundreds of executives reinvent their businesses, grow their innovation pipelines, and improve their company’s product delivery, by creating clarity of direction, eliminating obstacles to execution, and demystifying culture change.​

As a public speaker and Leader’s Agenda host, Tarja delights her audiences and guests with her authenticity and joy in learning about their work, insights, and dilemmas. She is an engaging and bold speaker who draws from her wealth of knowledge and experience, along with her Finnish Sisu, which keeps her going. ​

After surviving a ruptured brain aneurysm, Tarja became a brain activist and patient advocate focused on empowering survivors in their re-entry to life and work after brain injury through her non-profit, the Harbor of Life, and through collaborations with the Same You organization and the Lisa Foundation.