Bill Hercules inspires healthcare leadership teams by shaping their future places of care. Having planned and/or executed healthcare projects totaling 26.3-MSF and $10.3B_PV, Bill’s cross-disciplinary and bold ideation accelerates mission alignment by creating frameworks that attract the future through focused inquiry within organizations, and by innovative approaches outside of healthcare’s historical channels.

Bill founded WJH Health, a global consultancy that resolves the place of care at the nexus of mission, performance, and experience. He is the only practicing global triple-Fellow in the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA), and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).  And he is a global expert in healthcare architecture with almost 100 publications and speaking engagements globally, most recently at the separate intersections of design with finance and ethics.

He is a Past-President of the ACHA and currently serves on the AIA National Strategic Council. He served on the AIA COVID Rapid Response Taskforce – work which was subsequently translated and distributed globally by the U.S. State Department, and on the Hospital Surge Capacity taskforce of the international Facility Guidelines Institute. He is currently leading a research team pioneering the intersection of healthcare design and bioethics.