Elizabeth Hormann

Elizabeth’s work at CCS reflects a career spent helping organizations pursue ambitious goals with clarity and purpose. As an Executive Vice President, she brings strategic focus, operational discipline, and deep healthcare expertise to many of the firm’s most complex engagements. She is known for her innovation, curiosity, and collaborative approach, earning the trust of clients and colleagues alike.

Since joining CCS in 2017, she has advised institutions across the healthcare continuum and guided major campaigns, collaborative fundraising efforts, and organizational development initiatives. Her expertise spans growth planning, grateful patient program design, collaborative philanthropy, and principal gift programs. She has managed multi-billion-dollar initiatives, including two of the world’s largest healthcare capital projects by cost, designed and implemented first-of-its-kind collaborative fundraising models, and has helped clients secure multiple nine-figure gifts.

Elizabeth serves on the CCS Board of Directors Innovation Committee and was founding Co-Chair of CCS Elevate, the firm’s thought leadership initiative that applies best practices to emerging challenges in philanthropy. She is a 2025 Association for Healthcare Philanthropy 40 Under 40 awardee.

Originally from San Diego, Elizabeth earned her BA from Columbia University where she was elected Captain of the Field Hockey team. She now lives in Chicago where she is actively involved with Columbia University’s Odyssey Mentoring Program and Alumni Representative Committee. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, fitness, and spending time outdoors with her 115-lb Rhodesian Ridgeback, Judd.