Stephanie Daleweij

Stephanie Daleweij is a Senior Healthcare Innovation Manager at Coöperatie VGZ, one of the largest health insurers in the Netherlands. She drives value-based healthcare with a sharp focus on measurable outcomes and real-world impact. With a background as both a nurse and healthcare consultant, she combines clinical insight with system-level transformation, aiming to deliver the best-fitting care for insured members. At VGZ, Stephanie works at the intersection of data, practice, and policy to uncover and address unwarranted variation in care. A key example is her work on postoperative incontinence following prostatectomy, where significant differences in outcomes between providers were identified. Rather than stopping at the data, she actively engaged clinicians to validate findings, navigate resistance, and build shared ownership. By turning sensitive outcome data into open, constructive conversations, Stephanie helped shift the focus toward learning and improvement, ultimately contrib