John Winkleman

John S. Winkleman teaches healthcare marketing and directs HPM’s Health System Simulation and Consulting Practice. The Simulation is also part of programs at NYP, NYC H+H, Mount Sinai, the American College of Healthcare Executives and Bocconi University (Milan). He is a senior judge for the annual Healthcare Management and Delivery Case Challenge and faculty for APEx. For over a decade he was adjunct faculty at Fordham's Center for Nonprofit Leaders and Columbia Business School's Institute for Not-for-Profit Management.

He founded Winkleman Company in 1990 after working in the public relations industry and in the senior administration of Clark University and as director of NYC's Greenwich House Music School. Winkleman Company specialized in media relations, reputation management, speaker training, collateral development, public service outreach, brand marketing, strategic positioning and assessment.

As a trustee of the Mount Sinai Health System, he chaired its Community/Government Relations committee and was a long-time member of the Public Affairs/Marketing and Executive committees and Multicultural & Community Affairs Advisory Board and the System's Community Advisory Board; now, emeritus, he is on the Community/Government Relations and Quality committees and of counsel to Marketing. He also serves on the Clinical Excellence Leadership Circle for CommonSpirit Health and the Advisory Boards of CIVITAS, Project Evergreen and New Yorkers for Parks.

Winkleman served on the board of the Association of Fund-Raising Professionals NYC (AFP), was one of the founders/co-chairs of their National Philanthropy Day Celebration, and a co-founder of the Conference on Sustainability in the Nonprofit Sector at Columbia. For 25 years he was the co-author of the Top Ten List at NYC’s AFP National Fund-Raising Day.

He received the HPM 2025-26 Simulation Pioneer Award in recognition of extraordinary leadership in experiential learning, the 2024 Columbia Mailman School Judson Wolfe Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008 United Hospital Fund Distinguished Trustee award, 2009 Our Town Entrepreneurship Award, 2011 CIVITAS tribute award and special recognitions from Mount Sinai’s Center for Excellence in Youth Education and the NYC Chapter of AFP.

Winkleman is recognized as an architectural artist, having had his work displayed in Tiffany & Company, in publications and galleries as well as in published children's books.