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Ron Rheinheimer shared thisPleased to join Empactful Studios as an advisor. It’s an extraordinary moment in healthcare as AI shifts from experimentation to real operating change. I’m looking forward to working with leaders to align vision, economics, culture, and execution as AI moves to the core of the enterprise.Ron Rheinheimer shared thisAt Empactful Studios, we know that who you build with matters. With that in mind, we are pleased to announce that Ron Rheinheimer has joined Empactful Studios as an advisor focused on AI, healthcare transformation, and go-to-market strategy. As we continue to partner with health systems and healthcare technology companies, Ron brings deep experience helping leaders design and scale growth strategies amid rapid market change. His background spans enterprise go-to-market leadership, platform adoption, strategic partnerships, and commercialization of emerging technologies in healthcare and adjacent markets. Empactful Studios exists to build what’s next alongside our partners through human-centered design, new business model development, and disciplined, scalable execution. By translating unmet market needs into practical solutions, we help organizations improve access, affordability, and care experience while strengthening margin and long-term growth. Ron’s role as an advisor supports the work our AI Practice Leader, Nate Gagne, and our team are doing alongside provider organizations and healthcare innovators as they navigate the realities of AI adoption. Our focus areas include overall AI vision, new economic models, culture and change capacity, and sustainable go-to-market strategies—with the goal of moving organizations from initial experimentation to enterprise-scale impact. A healthcare and technology executive, Ron has worked closely with boards and executive teams to lead revenue growth, enterprise partnerships, and platform expansion. His experience includes scaling commercial teams, opening new vertical markets, and helping organizations position emerging technologies for real-world adoption. “Healthcare leaders are being asked to adopt AI while simultaneously rethinking their operating system, culture, and growth strategies,” said Chris Fox, Managing Partner at Empactful Studios. “Ron brings a rare perspective spanning healthcare, technology platforms, and enterprise go-to-market execution. His addition strengthens our ability to help partners turn pilots into measurable value at scale.” You can connect with Ron directly at Ron@empactfulstudios.com.
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Ron Rheinheimer reposted thisRon Rheinheimer reposted thisMost online learning underperforms for one simple reason: it treats every learner the same. The teams seeing real results are doing the opposite. They’re using AI voice to adapt to each learner, at scale, without adding headcount. A few patterns are emerging: - Personalized support becomes practical: AI teaching agents can answer questions, explain concepts in different ways, and adapt tone or pace to each learner. Not theoretically, but in production, today. - Engagement that compounds over time: Teams like StudyLab AI, MasterClass, and Supernova are using AI voice to turn static content into dynamic audio experiences. The result: learners stay longer and actually finish courses. - Accessibility and reach are no longer blockers: Turning courses into high-quality audio for visually impaired students and translating content into 70+ languages can now happen in days, not quarters. Why this matters: if you are building in K-12, higher ed, corporate training, or consumer learning, AI voice is moving from optional feature to foundational infrastructure. We are hosting a live ElevenLabs webinar to break down exactly how teams are implementing this, with hands-on demos and real customer examples. William T. Hashir Majeed 📆 Date: March 5, 2026 ⏰ Time: 10am EST 🔗 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/efBwe7RD
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Ron Rheinheimer shared thisFrom a 1984 Macintosh in my sophomore-year room to whatever comes next in 2026 and beyond. It’s been quite a ride, and it feels like the most interesting chapter may still be ahead. Last week I retired from zSpace after nearly ten years and wrapped up almost 39 years in what most of us think of as the “traditional” workforce. I’m not much for milestone LinkedIn posts, but this one felt worth noting. Not because of titles or tenure, but because of the people. I’ve been fortunate to work with thoughtful teammates, customers, and partners who challenged my thinking and taught me more than they know. I’ve always thought of myself as a learner first, and nearly four decades of work reinforced that mindset. The technology, tools, and industries changed, but the importance of staying curious and listening carefully never did. Now we’re on the edge of another shift, with AI reshaping how work gets done, how people learn, and how organizations operate. Thank you to everyone who has reached out over the holidays. It’s been great hearing from people I worked with decades ago, from more recent chapters, and everywhere in between. With a little more time on my hands, I’m looking forward to reconnecting, so don’t be surprised if I show up via text, email, or phone. I’m taking a short breath, reflecting on what I’ve learned, and thinking about what’s next. For now, I’m simply grateful for the people and experiences along the way. And who knows, maybe 2026 really is the year everything changes. 😉
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Ron Rheinheimer reposted thisRon Rheinheimer reposted thisWhat’s next for zSpace? CEO Paul Kellenberger joined "Marathon Money: Inside the Ticker" to discuss how the company is expanding its footprint in AR/VR education and building a strong path to profitability. Key highlights: • 3,500+ school districts using zSpace technology • Strategic acquisitions accelerating software growth • New AI-powered experiences and product innovations See why zSpace is positioned for long-term success: https://hubs.li/Q03P9C_B0 #EdTech #ARVR #AI #CareerEducation #InvestorRelations #CTEzSpace (NASDAQ: ZSPC) CEO The Future of AR/VR Education & Profitability”zSpace (NASDAQ: ZSPC) CEO The Future of AR/VR Education & Profitability”
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Ron Rheinheimer reposted thisRon Rheinheimer reposted thisExciting international news: zSpace has partnered with GEMS Education—the largest private education provider in the UAE—to introduce immersive, headset-free AR/VR learning at Dubai’s School of Research and Innovation. Read the full press release: https://hubs.li/Q03NLT_V0 #STEMEducation #ARVR #ImmersiveLearning #EdTech #FutureReady
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Ron Rheinheimer reposted thisRon Rheinheimer reposted thisCareer exploration shouldn’t start at graduation. With Career Explorer by zSpace, middle grade students can immerse themselves in real-world career simulations—from surgery to construction to coding—while receiving personalized guidance from Career Coach AI. See how we’re helping schools prepare tomorrow’s workforce today: 👉 Career Explorer: https://hubs.li/Q03LZxRQ0 👉 Explore all zSpace apps: https://hubs.li/Q03LZKkZ0
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Ron Rheinheimer shared thisGreat article from NSBA, https://lnkd.in/gUpyEUiy. Excellent perspective from Educators on AI and CTE at Atlanta College and Career Academy. “What’s amazing to me is to see how excited they are during the learning process, how they are engaging and helping one another,” “This technology (zSpace) is really a game changer.”
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Ron Rheinheimer reposted thisRon Rheinheimer reposted thisWe're Hiring: Salesforce Administrator zSpace is looking for an experienced Salesforce Administrator to join our team. If you're passionate about building efficient workflows, problem solving, and empowering teams through better systems, we'd love to hear from you. Location: Remote Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ea6AqeZw https://lnkd.in/ea6AqeZw Know someone who might be a great fit? Please feel free to share this post. #Hiring #SalesforceAdmin #SalesforceJobs #SalesforceCPQ #EdTech #zSpace #NowHiring #TechJobsSalesforce Administrator - United States - Indeed.comSalesforce Administrator - United States - Indeed.com
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Ron Rheinheimer reposted thisRon Rheinheimer reposted thisThe workforce of tomorrow begins with the students of today. That’s why we built Career Explorer by zSpace: ✔ Hands-on simulations for health sciences, IT, HVAC, and more ✔ Career profiles highlighting high-demand, high-wage jobs ✔ Career Coach AI to guide students through their unique pathways Prepare students for success—starting now: https://hubs.ly/Q03HSb8v0
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisRon Rheinheimer liked thisA shift I keep noticing in the people around me — customers, teammates, other builders: The ones pulling ahead aren't going deeper on automation tools. They're going up a level. For the last couple of years, tool mastery was the winning move — Lindy.ai, n8n, Make, and other agent builders. It paid because the skill was rare. It's becoming less rare every week. Within 12 months, most workflows will be generated from natural language descriptions of business requirements. The wiring layer commoditizes. What doesn't: 1. Domain depth — actually understanding how a specific industry makes money, what breaks, and what a $50K problem looks like vs. a $500 one. 2. Business translation — turning that understanding into a specification precise enough that AI builds the right thing the first time. AI's flexibility is the problem, not the feature. The skill is constraining it. 3. Systems thinking — seeing every business as the same shape: marketing → sales → onboarding → delivery → retention. Knowing which box is leaking is worth more than knowing how to automate any single box. As an engineer, what I see is that the teammates and customers getting the most leverage out of AI aren't the most technical ones. They're the ones who stay at the high level — clear on the problem, clear on the constraints, clear on what "done" looks like — and let the model handle the rest. It's a less legible skill on a resume. It's a more durable one in practice. That's why we built actAVA.ai — to actually solve the problem. Let the experts stay at their level, and leave the agent-building to us.
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisSuch a great evening! Huge thanks to the CNOs for sharing their perspectives so openly. What stuck with me was how everyone is looking at AI as a way to reduce administrative burden for their nurses and nurse leaders, so they can get back to the work that actually matters. That was the good stuff, along with the sushi! 😉 #NursingWorkforce #HealthcareAI #NursingLeadership #M7HealthRon Rheinheimer liked thisLast week, M7 hosted our Innovation Council over dinner in New York. The room was filled with CNOs and hospital execs from across the area, gathered around the topic of how AI can change the future of nursing. What struck me most was how varied the starting points were — some systems deep into AI adoption, others just beginning. But the desire to find solutions that actually make a difference for nurses was universal. Grateful for evenings like this. The kind where you leave more energized than when you walked in. #NursingWorkforce #HealthcareAI #FutureOfNursing #NursingLeadership #HealthcareInnovation #CNO #M7Health
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisRon Rheinheimer liked thisClaude AI just called me a “high velocity recursive refiner” and I think I owe a lot of humans an apology.
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisRon Rheinheimer liked thisPublishing has been running on “pet” workflows for decades. That doesn’t work at global, on-demand scale. The shift to infrastructure is happening now. Christoph explains it better than anyone.
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisRon Rheinheimer liked thisIn the small world category, I met the granddaughter of Steve Gachupin today. Many of you know that I am a crazy Boston Sports fan - as do my colleagues at Education at Work. Gachupin's granddaughter works for one of the tribal governments we are honored to partner with in running the New Mexico Summer Enrichment Internship Program, and my NM colleagues were quick to point out (tough day for it, IYKYK) that she is a Celtics fan! When I asked why the story came out about her grandfather, who (I think I have this right) was the first Native American to run Boston. The Boston Marathon and Marathon Monday have long been one of my favorite days of the year. My aunt & uncle (Betsy Ginsberg) live on the route, and like Gachupin, my uncle was a HS running coach. (Oh, and I may have run & finished the race once - flex). Small world. If you love running and are interested in Native culture, this is a great, short article. (Also, the Celtics are a great Game 7 franchise.) https://lnkd.in/gTwGGrdA
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisCompliance is King in healthcare and life sciences. We at actAVA.ai are lucky to have Bryan Rotella advising us on the trends and issues that will impact the adoption of AI in our market. In an industry where a single misstep can mean the difference between patient safety and catastrophic harm, compliance isn't a checkbox — it's the foundation upon which trust is built. Healthcare AI operates at the intersection of sensitive personal data, life-critical decisions, and an evolving regulatory landscape spanning HIPAA, FDA guidance, and emerging frameworks like the EU AI Act. Without rigorous compliance guardrails, even the most innovative AI tools risk exposing organizations to devastating liability, eroding patient trust, and — most importantly — producing outcomes that harm the very people they were designed to help. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in clinical workflows, diagnostics, and care coordination, the organizations that will lead are not simply those with the most powerful models, but those that can demonstrate their AI is auditable, explainable, and operating within the boundaries regulators and patients expect. Compliance, done right, isn't a barrier to AI adoption — it's the competitive advantage that makes adoption sustainable.Ron Rheinheimer liked thisWe are thrilled to officially welcome Bryan Rotella as an Advisor to the actAVA.ai team! 🚀 Helping actAVA and our customers with AI governance - the bridge between innovation and implementation. As the founder of GenCo Legal®, a Division of QPWB® and LeadAI Legal™, Bryan brings a wealth of experience at the intersection of healthcare, law, and artificial intelligence. His work advising Congressional leaders on AI policy and his tenure as General Counsel for billion-dollar healthcare organizations make him a formidable addition to our advisory board. At actAVA.ai, our mission is to enable healthcare organizations to deploy production-grade, model-independent AI agents safely and at scale. Bryan’s "consequence-tested" approach to AI governance ensures that, as we push the boundaries of what’s possible with our KORA agent factory, we do so with the clarity and foresight that healthcare leaders demand. Welcome to the team, Bryan! We’re excited to build the future of AI-driven healthcare together. Read the full interview here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e8xP8J63 #HealthTech #GenerativeAI #AIGovernance #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #ActavaAI
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisRon Rheinheimer liked thisI was reading a piece from Behavioral Health Business predicting that 2026 is the year behavioral health shifts from growth to proof. That tracks with everything I'm seeing. The pressure is real and it's coming from both sides simultaneously. CMS is enforcing parity rules more aggressively — plans now have to prove their behavioral health denial rates aren't more restrictive than medical. And investors who flooded into behavioral health over the past 3 years are demanding measurable ROI, not just patient volume numbers. This dual squeeze is forcing something that should have happened a decade ago: behavioral health is finally building real measurement and data infrastructure. Not just compliance dashboards, but the foundational systems that track outcomes, prove efficacy, and justify reimbursement. Here's what I find promising about this pressure: it's not just about survival. We're not talking about compliance checkboxes — we're talking about building the data layer that makes behavioral and medical care actually talk to each other. That's how you move from "behavioral health is a carve-out" to "behavioral health is integrated care." The accountability era isn't a threat to behavioral health. It's the forcing function that finally builds the infrastructure to democratize access.
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisRon Rheinheimer liked thisA few days ago I wrote about why software valuations keep dropping. Here's the bigger story I left out. SaaS competed for software budget. AI-native companies compete for labor budget. Software typically runs 3-8% of revenue. Labor often runs 25-40%. That's a 5-10x bigger pool, sometimes more. We see this in our own building. At actAVA.ai we built our own CRM on top of our agent platform. It tracks sales, post-sale support, and the POCs we run before customers sign. We added a billing and invoice module. Custom hooks into our Slack. Direct integration with our agents so the knowledge base understands every customer conversation. Five years ago that's a multi-vendor stack and a six-figure ARR commitment. Now it's a small team and a few weeks. Multiply that across every team that ever bought a SaaS seat. Cost reduction is the first wave. Custom workflows, fewer people, more output per person. Revenue acceleration is the next wave. The agents getting deployed today will be far more capable in 12 months. New products. New markets. Customer segments that were never economic to serve. The next decade of company building lives in that bigger pool.
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Ron Rheinheimer liked thisRon Rheinheimer liked thisIt's spring in Connecticut and I've been in the yard planting, pulling and trimming; making space for my native perennials that are coming back to life after the long winter. Each year I seem to forget how long it takes for the flowering plants and trees of the northeast to bloom. In the meantime, I try not to be too envious of the neighbors with their exotic plants and annuals in full color. They look great right now. But I know how this goes. The exotics fade. The annuals do their thing and disappear. The invasives come back harder next season. And the perennials just keep going. I've been thinking about demand programs the same way. Most programs are annuals. Plant, bloom, gone. Start over next year. Some are exotics. Expensive. Impressive. Short-lived. Some are invasives. Fast coverage, fast scale. And a mess to clean up later. More need to be built like perennials. The ones that get stronger over time. Deeper roots. More resilient. More productive each season. Sustainable. Healthy. Built to last. What are you growing this year?
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