Florence ("Flo") Di Benedetto is an experienced healthcare executive, teacher, mentor, public speaker, attorney, consultant and business owner. She is a commercial pilot, flight instructor, and an avid downhill skier. As the founder and owner of Di Benedetto Solutions, Inc. (DBS), Flo offers leadership development training, executive coaching, assessments of, and action planning for, enhanced team culture and effectiveness, and reputation management, including internal and external crisis communications. Flo speaks and teaches across the country on a variety of topics related to values driven, accountable leadership, team management, organizational and board culture, diversity, and resilience.

DBS also provides advice and counsel to governing boards, interim and fractional executive leadership and general counsel services, and complex litigation strategy and management. Flo serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Health Law Association. She also serves as a Medical Staff peer review hearing officer for the American Health Law Association and the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys. Flo currently serves as the fractional General Counsel for The Physician Association of California, the only statewide trade association solely focused on representing independent physicians and small group practices.

Before forming DBS, Flo served for over fourteen years as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Sutter Health. Sutter Health is a $15 billion integrated healthcare delivery system with 55,000 employees, over 12,000 affiliated physicians, 26 acute care hospitals, approximately 300 ambulatory clinics, 33 ambulatory surgery centers, home health and hospice and a variety of ancillary services. At Sutter Health, Flo had accountability for the Office of the General Counsel, which included Legal Services (a multispecialty group of attorneys and other professionals who provided the majority of all legal services to the organization), Risk Services (including Sutter Insurance Services Corporation ("SISCO"), a captive insurance company, and Sutter Health Emergency Management System ("SHEMS"), (a centralized incident command operation which provides an organized structure to assist affiliates in maintaining optimal patient care in the event of a catastrophe), and Privacy and Information Security, including cyber security. From 2009 to 2018, she had accountability for the Ethics and Compliance Program. Flo reported directly to the Sutter Health President and CEO, serving as a strategic business advisor to the CEO and other members of senior leadership. She served as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, (ELT) which provided strategic and operational direction to the organization, as well as serving on the broader senior leadership team. Flo provided primary advice and counsel to the Sutter Health Board ("Board") and Board Committees, including Finance, Audit and Compliance, Governance, and Compensation. She managed a department of approximately 360 team members, and a budget of approximately $85M.

Flo is passionate about developing herself and others. While at Sutter Health, she served as the Executive Sponsor of the Leadership Academy, a ten (10) month intensive leadership development program offered to a small, select group of rising leaders. For many years, she also served as the Executive Sponsor of the Administrative Fellow Program and Summer Intern Program and the Military and Veterans Inclusion Resource Group. In recognition of her years of outstanding leadership and many contributions, Sutter Health created the Flo Di Benedetto Academic Grant program, which awards two grants annually to complete an Executive Education Certificate Program at a top tier university (e.g., Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA). This grant was created to promote diversity in leadership which is a cause that Flo has championed throughout her career. A recent venture in developing leaders and advancing diversity in leadership is “Women In Health: A Master Guide to the Voices, Stories, and Strategies Shaping the Modern Office,” published in March, 2026. Flo is a contributing author for the book which focuses on the bold and compelling stories of twenty-two (22) senior women healthcare executives across the country who have navigated challenges, rebuilt organizations, transformed cultures, and delivered impact across complex health systems.

Prior to joining Sutter Health, Flo was a senior partner of the Sacramento-based law firm Hunter Richey Di Benedetto & Eisenbeis, LLP. She started the firm's litigation practice and chaired the litigation section. Flo is an experienced litigator and has litigated cases in state and federal court and in a variety of administrative tribunals. She also served more than ten years as the firm's health law section senior partner, representing clients across California, including Sutter Health, Dignity Health, Stanford, and John Muir Health System.

For many years, Flo served in the leadership ranks of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, including serving as the Chairman of the Board in 2005-2006.

Throughout her career, Flo has taught and currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the College of Public Health. In 2022, she served as co-chair and faculty for the Consero Leadership Development Institute, which focuses on the skills necessary to provide authentic, effective, and accountable leadership. She has developed and taught modules on character based and accountable leadership, self- reflection and self-awareness, organizational culture, power and politics, critical thinking and strategy, communications, including crisis communications, and governance. From 1992 to 1999, Flo was as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law, where she taught basic and advanced Health Law classes. She also taught Health Law in the MBA, MHA and MPH programs at the University of San Francisco, Golden Gate University, and Chapman University.

Flo earned her bachelor's degree in International Relations from Georgetown University and studied economics and economic planning at London University and the Central School of Planning and Statistics in Warsaw, Poland. She earned her law degree from the University of San Francisco and her M.B.A. in Health Services Management from Golden Gate University.

Contact Ms. Di Benedetto atFdibenedetto@dibenedettosolutions.com

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