Ecumen Names Liz Hackenmueller as VP, Strategy & Execution
By Lisa Hawks | October 26, 2026
SHOREVIEW, MN (October 26, 2026) — Ecumen, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit providers of senior housing and health care services, today announced that Liz Hackenmueller will join the organization as Vice President of Strategy & Execution.
In this executive leadership role, Hackenmueller will support the organization’s One Ecumen vision as it works to meet the changing needs of older adults through housing, health care, services and innovation. She will help Ecumen focus on the work that matters most, bring leaders together around shared priorities, and ensure major initiatives continue moving forward. Her role will help create greater alignment across the organization and support thoughtful decisions about where Ecumen invests its time, energy, and resources.
Hackenmueller is an enterprise transformation leader and operational strategist with more than 15 years of experience helping organizations execute complex change, strengthen performance, and build scalable operating systems.
She joins Ecumen from Allina Health, where she spent the past 10 years in progressive leadership roles, most recently as System Director of Improvement for Enterprise Operations. Across her career, Liz has led multi‑site health care operations, guided organizational redesign, and built cross‑functional structures that improve clarity, alignment, and execution. She brings to Ecumen experience building systems that enhance access, community partnerships, quality, workforce engagement, and operational reliability.
“Liz brings a strong ability to connect strategy with action and help teams turn shared priorities into meaningful results,” said Cyrus Batheja, Ecumen’s president and CEO. “Working alongside leaders and team members across Ecumen, she will offer a systems-thinking perspective to help us strengthen our services, advance sustainable growth, and respond to the changing needs of older adults. Her leadership will support our One Ecumen vision and our commitment to the people and communities we serve.”
Hackenmueller holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from Bethany Lutheran College, and a Master of Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and School of Public Health.