Episode 292: Getting Back to the Fundamentals of Leadership w/ Jason Weems

In this episode, we sit down with Jason Weems, the Chief Information Officer of Soleo Health. Jason shares his insights on leading technology organizations through business-led transformation and the importance of returning to fundamentals when driving organizational change. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare and financial services, Jason emphasizes collaboration, patient-focused care, and leveraging real-world outcome data. Join us for a conversation on achieving business outcomes and creating value through strategic technology initiatives.

Bio: Jason is an experienced executive with a strong background in leading large-scale technology organizations through business-led transformations. He currently serves as the CIO at Soleo Health, a healthcare corporation dedicated to providing care for patients with complex needs. As a core member of both technology and business executive leadership teams, Jason acts as a crucial technology advisor and partner, leveraging technology to drive value and achieve significant business growth.

Jason brings a wealth of experience from his roles in Fortune 50 healthcare and financial services companies such as Citi, Express Scripts, and Cigna Healthcare. Throughout his career, he has held senior leadership positions, including the senior technology leader for Express Scripts Pharmacy businesses, VP of Digital at Express Scripts, as well as senior leader over Cigna Patient Care division, Telehealth, and Citi’s M&A leader.

Jason’s leadership style is characterized by a value-based enterprise mindset with extensive experience in leading teams across various technology domains. His expertise spans software engineering, product development and strategy, digital engineering and transformation, artificial intelligence, data intelligence, program and project management, and technology strategy.

Jason holds an MBA with an emphasis in International Business from Saint Louis University.

Jason’s Something Extra: “Take stock of the people around you…just say, you know what, I’m really thankful, I’m really grateful and then communicate it.”

Guest Links:

– Lisa Nichols, Host
– Jenny Heal, Executive Producer
– Joe Szynkowski and Landon Burke, Marketing Support
– Portside Media, Podcast Engineer

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