{"id":1097,"date":"2021-09-09T07:42:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/consultant\/john-baker\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:19:55","slug":"john-baker","status":"publish","type":"consultant","link":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/consultant\/john-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"John Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block-consultant-detail alignfull \">\n    <div class=\"consultant-hero\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n                            <div class=\"img\"\n                     style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Baker_John_Web-970x700.jpg);\"><\/div>\n                        <section class=\"copy\">\n                <h1>John Baker<\/h1>\n\n                                    <p class=\"title\">Managing Partner, Global Life Science Practice Leader<\/p>\n                                <ul class=\"offices\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/office\/chicago\/\">Chicago<\/a><\/li><\/ul>                                    <p>Leveraging more than 25 years in the healthcare environment, John focuses on senior executive- and direct report-level assignments in the life sciences sector. John has worked with private equity, venture-backed, development stage and high-growth publicly-held companies across the device, diagnostic, biopharmaceutical and healthcare technology markets.<\/p>\n                            <\/section>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"wrapper\">\n        <section class=\"contact\">\n            <h2>John Baker<\/h2>\n\n                            <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:jbaker@dhrglobal.com\">jbaker@dhrglobal.com<\/a>\n            \n                            <a class=\"tel\" href=\"tel:+1 617 834 8452\">+1 617 834 8452<\/a>\n            \n                            <div class=\"social\">\n                    <p>Let&#8217;s Connect<\/p>\n\n                                            <a class=\"icon-linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-baker-1b118b\/\"><span\n                                    class=\"screen-reader-text\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a>\n                    \n                    \n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n        <section class=\"main\">\n            <div class=\"copy\">\n                <h2>Experience<\/h2>\n                <p>John has established himself as a trusted partner to his clients with his consultative approach, strong work ethic, deep industry knowledge and extensive professional network. Gaining an accurate understanding of his clients\u2019 critical success factors and long-term business strategies, he applies his operational background and leadership assessment skills to identify talent that will augment and strengthen those key areas, often introducing clients to business development opportunities that add to the growth of their business.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining DHR, John served as a Managing Partner for another search firm, where he refined his assessment of general management talent and leadership of successful organizations. Previously, he held various roles within the medical device, diagnostic and laboratory services industries, with Quest Diagnostics, Hewlett-Packard Medical Products Group (now known as Philips Medical Systems) and Beckman Coulter.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n\n            <aside>\n                                <h2>Expertise<\/h2>\n                <ul>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/life-science\/\">Life Science<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/life-science\/healthcare-technology\/\">Healthcare Technology<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/life-science\/biopharmaceuticals\/\">Biopharmaceuticals<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/capability\/executive-search\/\">Executive Search<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/life-science\/pharmaceuticals\/\">Pharmaceuticals<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/industry\/private-equity\/chief-executive-officers-for-pe-portfolio-companies\/\">Chief Executive Officers for PE Portfolio Companies<\/a><\/li>\n                                                <\/aside>\n        <\/section>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"block-insights-featured \">\n        <div class=\"maybe-wrapper\">\n\n                            <h2 class=\"is-style-underlined\">Connected Insights<\/h2>\n            \n            <div class=\"article-grid\">\n\n                \n                    <article id=\"post-38205\" class=\"post-38205 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-board-ceo category-healthcare category-individual-consulting category-insights category-life-science category-organizational-development category-team-effectiveness insights_type-article\" >\n    <a class=\"inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/insights\/scaling-leadership-for-the-next-era-of-healthcare-life-sciences\/\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/iStock-1498143365-363x222.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"info\">\n            <h3>Scaling Leadership for the Next Era of Healthcare &#038; Life Sciences<\/h3>\n\t\t\t                <footer class=\"topic\">Article<\/footer>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article><article id=\"post-22561\" class=\"post-22561 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry insights_type-article\" >\n    <a class=\"inner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/insights\/ai-across-industries-life-science\/\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AI-Life-Science-363x222.png);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"info\">\n            <h3>AI Across Industries: Life Science<\/h3>\n\t\t\t                <footer class=\"topic\">Article<\/footer>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":4295,"template":"","consultant_title":[117],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/consultant"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38262,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant\/1097\/revisions\/38262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"consultant_title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhrglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultant_title?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}