Bringing sharper logistics, smarter data and a patient-first perspective to Alberta’s health-care system
Age: 37
Job Title: President and Principal Consultant at Banyan Strategies
When Tyler Tamayose was 16, he tore out his shoulder playing baseball, an injury that brought him into the care of medical professionals and, as he tells it, his future career in health care. “I fell in love with health in general, dealing with the surgeons and the rehab specialist,” says Tamayose, who began his pre-med studies at William Wood University in Fulton, Missouri, on a baseball scholarship.
The goal was always to become a physician. But in the summers between each year of college, Tamayose returned to his hometown of Lethbridge to work as a hospital porter and on the loading dock at Chinook Regional Hospital. “People were like, ‘Why are you working on the loading dock?’” he recalls. But to him, it was obvious — why wouldn’t he want to work inside the heart of the hospital? Without that experience, and the glimpse it gave him into the behind-the-scenes work that quietly keeps a hospital moving, he might still see health care as only what happens between doctor and patient.
“You’re a spoke on a big wheel that’s turning,” says Tamayose, who now makes his profession as a health-care strategist and implementation expert. “It really taught me that health care is an ecosystem, and every role, whether you’re moving supplies or making executive decisions, really does shape the outcomes for people.” Over the past 15 years, he’s worked with 70 hospitals across Alberta in a variety of logistical roles, including leading pandemic planning and response at Edmonton’s busiest hospital.
Today, Tamayose continues to shape those outcomes through his consultancy, Banyan Strategies, advising organizations such as Health Cities. He helps them optimize systems and deliver innovative care to Albertans. It just goes to show that sometimes the smallest detour can reshape the entire map of a career — and the health of millions who depend on it.
This article appears in the November/December 2025 issue of Edify
