Kara Allen

Vice President of Business Development

Kara Allen is a Vice President of Business Development at Clinician Nexus. She is an accomplished and high-performing leader with more than 15 years of consulting experience working with organizations to enhance their total rewards strategy with the right data, tools, and technology solutions.

With additional expertise in compensation benchmarking and survey design, Kara is well-positioned to help clients transform the way in which they manage the physician compensation and performance management process with Clinician Nexus

Her work includes:

Enabling clients to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and efficacy of their compensation and performance management programs through innovative technology solutions
Delivering centralized and actionable data tailored to the unique needs of leadership, administrators, and clinicians
Empowering organizations to better engage and retain physicians and APPs with greater line of sight into their performance against targets
Supporting executive decision-making with invaluable insight into compensation and performance across all levels of the organization

Before her time with Clinician Nexus, Kara worked as an Enterprise Account Director at Payscale. She also held a number of Senior Leadership positions at global consulting firm Willis Tower Watson.

She is also a WorldatWork Certified Compensation Professional.

Kara received her MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.

Resources

Go Slow to Go Fast: The Advantage in Physician Compensation Transformation

September 8, 2025

There are times when many health care systems experience a natural deceleration, making it the perfect opportunity to put this principle to the test and begin laying the transformative groundwork that will tee up your success in the upcoming year – especially when it comes to physician compensation administration.

Clinician Nexus + Ntracts: Physician Compensation and Contracts – Together at Last

September 3, 2025

This collaboration will allow health care organizations to seamlessly integrate Ntracts' enterprise-grade pre-employment contract and data collection capabilities into Clinician Nexus’ innovative Compensation Management solution.

Expand the Clinical Workforce Through Exposure to Practice

September 2, 2025

While workforce planning often focuses on retention and pipeline development at the college or graduate level, there’s a powerful but underutilized solution that starts much earlier: exposing high school students to clinical careers through structured shadowing opportunities.

Building Your Change Muscle: Why Provider Compensation Administration Is Your Practice Round

August 13, 2025

Health care is evolving quickly, but the most successful organizations aren’t just reacting. They’re proactively building the capacity to manage change before the pressure mounts!