Amanda Ternan, PMP

Senior Director, Project Management

Health Management Associates

Austin, TX

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(800) 678-2299

Amanda Ternan is an operations, transformation, and project management leader with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations improve performance through governance, operational excellence, organizational change, and program leadership. As senior director of Project Management at Health Management Associates (HMA), she leads initiatives that strengthen project delivery, forecasting, reporting, resource planning, and organizational effectiveness across the firm’s consulting portfolio.

Amanda is recognized for building governance frameworks, performance measures, and scalable business processes that improve decision-making and execution. She partners across consulting, finance, accounting, operations, contracts, reporting, and technology functions to align strategy, systems, people, and processes. Her experience spans healthcare transformation, behavioral health, Medicaid programs, justice-system initiatives, enterprise operations, and technology modernization.

Throughout her career, Amanda has led complex cross-functional initiatives in highly matrixed environments where success depends on influence, stakeholder alignment, and organizational adoption. She has supported major public-sector transformation efforts, including the establishment of Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration and implementation of California’s CARE Act, while also helping develop HMA’s project management governance and operational excellence capabilities.

Amanda has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University and maintains Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute.