Title
Vice President, Total Health Partnerships
Company
Kaiser Permanente
Bio
Tyler Norris, MDiv, is an entrepreneur and founder of over a dozen businesses and social ventures. His three decades of service in the public, private and non-profit sectors have focused on population health, community vitality, and equitable prosperity. Currently, he serves as Vice President of Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente, where he helps lead the implementation of “anchor institution” work, applying all KP assets to measurably improve population health and community well-being. This work leverages such resources as payroll, procurement, investment portfolio, facilities and grant making to deliver on the aspiration for the complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being of our members, workforce, and communities. Additionally, Tyler leads KP’s portfolio of physical activity, active transportation and placemaking initiatives. Tyler is a trustee of Naropa University, North America’s leading institution of contemplative education, and serves on advisory bodies for the Convergence Partnership, Transportation for America, Active Living by Design, Samueli Institute, and as faculty for Estes Park Institute and the YMCA Leadership Symposia. He is currently active with Social Venture Network, BALLE and SOCAP. His three decades of service in the public, private and non-profit sectors have focused on improving population health, community vitality, and equitable prosperity. As an early leader in the healthy and sustainable communities movement, Tyler has worked in over 400 communities and with scores of organizations in the United States and around the world. Previously he served as founding chair of IP3, a technology venture that powers the Community Commons and data platforms for leading health philanthropies and governmental agencies. He was founding CEO of Community Initiatives Inc.; convener of Advancing the Movement; founding co-chair of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's National Leadership Alliance; founding director of what became the national "Convergence Partnership"; NAC Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living by Design initiative; a Fellow of Estes Park Institute and the Public Health Institute; head coach of the YMCA's Pioneering Healthier Communities initiative, and founding director of the US Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities, which later seeded The Association for Community Health Improvement of the American Hospital Association. Norris has a bachelor’s degree in international political economy from The Colorado College, a master of divinity degree from Naropa University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Program. He is a parent of two young adults, an avid mountain biker, backcountry skier and pilot.