Brian Walker

Brian Walker is an entrepreneur, doctor of public health, and educator who explores the relationship among creating, purpose, and impact.

He is the founder of the leading pediatric surgery center organization in the United States, now completing over 50,000 surgeries each year across the country. After directing the organization for over a decade, Brian stepped away to pursue a deeper inquiry into the role of creation in building lasting impact.

Today, Brian serves as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he co-teaches the Innovating in Health Care course alongside Regina Herzlinger. He has developed and co-authored several widely acclaimed Harvard Business School cases, including those on Judy Faulkner’s 45+ years leading Epic and Bayer Leverkusen’s historic undefeated Bundesliga season. His current book project, co-authored with Yale’s Teresa Chahine, explores how entrepreneurial women are teaching us new ways to imagine, build, and thrive.

Brian earned his SM in Health Policy and Management from Harvard and his DrPH from Johns Hopkins, where his research focused on entrepreneurial women and the pathways through which their work becomes both transformative and meaningful. Before founding his company, Brian worked at The Boston Consulting Group and Ridgemont Equity Partners, focusing on strategy, innovation, and investing across multiple industries.

Having lived and worked across all four regions of the United States—as well as in England, Spain, and Austria—Brian believes that simple, everyday connections can be powerful drivers of global understanding, peace, and progress. His passion for international connection first took shape through soccer when, as a teenager, he represented his home country as a member of the U.S. Youth Olympic Development Program’s National Pool.