Linda Solarek

Founding Partner

Linda Solarek’s professional career is a culmination of curiosity, tenacity, learning, and taking on a challenge. She started in cardiac rehabilitation with her undergraduate degree in Exercise Science and quickly recognized an affinity for business through sales and supervisory roles. She transitioned to orthopedics as a medical assistant and soon was managing the clinical staff for one of the largest orthopedic and sports medicine practices in the state of Maryland.

To further her leadership, entrepreneurial, operations and project management skills she joined a home inspection business as a co-owner and administrator. She facilitated the growth of this enterprise and sold the company to concentrate on real estate investment and management, but 8 years later the call of a new challenge and sense of purpose led her back to the medical field as a practice administrator. She spent the next 14 years at a physiatry practice then accepted a position as Administrative Director of the Fortney Breast Center at Anne Arundel Medical Center.

The partnership she formed with the Medical Director, Dr. Lorraine Tafra, helped transform the Breast Center in a variety of dimensions and both she and Dr. Tafra realized the powerful synergy that working together provided in taking the AAMC Breast Center to a new level of performance and growth. While Linda left the AAMC Breast Center to pursue other goals, the partnership and bond she formed with Dr. Tafra remained and together they began to plan a future where they could bring the many lessons learned and techniques practiced to other health care environments that were striving to establish excellence in breast health care. Described as a force multiplier, co-founding Breast Care Architects allows Linda to utilize her varied skill set and high-level executive functioning skills to identify and meet her clients needs.

Increased physiatry practice gross revenue by 25% in 6 years
Completed NAPBC accreditation
Operationalized, launched and managed one of the first lifestyle medicine programs in the medical office setting and developed a lifestyle medicine consulting business
Co-authored, Weight Loss 5x5® and the Pain Elimination Program™ as well as numerous blogs, video scripts, websites and 2 papers accepted for presentation
Speaker on marketing and administration to the National Association of Home Inspectors as well as local real estate professional organizations and companies
Developed and launched e-commerce website for physician
Co-owner Building Specs, Inc., developed the business from 3 employees to 15, one office to 50 national affiliates, 2 accredited training facilities, e-commerce website, grew annual gross revenue from start-up to $1.6 million, business sold
Acquired and managed commercial and residential rental units, business sold
15-year board member of The Friends of the Light House, a homelessness prevention center; held numerous positions to include President
Previous Anne Arundel Medical Center Office Administrator’s Council Chair, Foundation gala committee member, National Cancer Survivorship Day speaker
Maryland Medical Group Management Association Member
Maryland Association of Realtors, Anne Arundel County Association of Realtors, Bay Area Association of Realtors and Women’s Council of Realtors affiliate member and held several committee chair positions

Awards:

The Maryland Association of Realtors Shining Star Award, twice The Anne Arundel County Association of Realtors Affiliate of the Year, Anne Arundel County Women’s Council of Realtors Affiliate of the Year, and the Bay Area Association of Realtors Affiliate of the Year