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IMPACT Podcast Series
IMPACT is FORUM’s signature podcast highlighting the women whose leadership, expertise, and vision are shaping the future of government, technology, and the federal contracting community. Each episode features in-depth, authentic conversations with executives, trailblazers, innovators, and rising leaders who are driving meaningful progress across the public and private sectors.
The podcast explores a wide range of topics essential to modern leadership: building inclusive workplaces, navigating career advancement, leading through change, supporting mission outcomes, and fostering collaboration between government and industry. Guests share real-world experiences, lessons learned, and actionable insights that empower listeners to lead with confidence and drive impact within their organizations.
IMPACT offers more than professional stories—it provides a platform for thoughtful dialogue on mentorship, opportunity, innovation, and the challenges and successes women encounter at every level of the GovCon and federal technology ecosystem. Whether you are an emerging professional, a seasoned executive, or someone passionate about leadership and community, the podcast delivers inspiration and practical guidance you can apply immediately.
About the Host:
Mary Ann Brown hosts IMPACT and brings deep experience supporting government–industry collaboration. As Senior Director of Operations at FORUM, she helps create strategic events, leadership initiatives, and platforms that elevate voices across the federal community and advance meaningful conversations about leadership and mission success.
Subscribe to IMPACT to hear the stories and perspectives of the women shaping the federal landscape—and to be inspired by the leadership driving change across government and industry.
IMPACT Podcast Series
The Importance of Passion in Healthcare
Taking advantage of every opportunity and chance to grow is the key to achieving career goals. Today we discuss being an impactful leader with Claudine Beron the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Initiate Government Solutions.
Claudine Beron, PMP, Chief Executive Officer, Initiate Government Solutions, LLC
Claudine Beron, MA, PMP, is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Initiate Government Solutions. Claudine has more than 30 years of experience in health information technology. Ms. Beron’s experience includes large scale information systems and information technology implementation and support. Working with the largest clinical data warehouse in the federal government for researchers, Ms. Beron has focused on solving healthcare data standardization, interoperability, quality and useability by developing tools using natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to manage big data, see trends, and pin-point proactively issues in large population data sets. Claudine has previously acted as the Chair of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee (C&BI) and co-founder of the Federal Health Community. Ms. Beron has a Masters in International Transactions from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts from Park University.
About IGS
Initiate Government Solutions, LLC is a health information technology services company that supports improving public healthcare organizations. Our focus is on data analytics, informatics, migration of data solutions, applications and operations, and modernization of federal EHR systems. We support medical research for over 16 million veterans and 10,000 researchers, turning raw clinical data into actionable healthcare for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As well as migration of all legacy data across the enterprise from VistA to HealthEIntent for VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM). We also support RPMS for over 400 Indian Health Service and tribal clinical facilities. We have achieved Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 for both Services and Development and certified ISO 9001:2015, 20000-1:2018, 27001:2013, 28001:2007.
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