Bill Hercules empowers healthcare leadership teams to shape their future places of care. Having planned and/or executed architecture totaling more than 35msf and $13Bpv, Bill’s bold cross-disciplinary ideation accelerates mission alignment and attracts the future. After practicing architecture for almost three decades, in early 2013 Bill founded WJH Health, a global consultancy that resolves the places of care, learning, and research at the nexus of mission, performance, and experience.

His passion for applied learning has elevated him to be 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). He is a global expert in healthcare design with more than 160 publications such as American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Modern Healthcare, Beckers Healthcare, Hastings Center, Greenwall Foundation, Health Environments Research & Design, as well as international speaking engagements, including Grand Rounds at Harvard Medical School, UT Southwestern, MD Anderson, University of Toronto, and the European Healthcare Design Congress, Center for Health Design, American Society of Healthcare Engineering, American College of Healthcare Executives, American Institute of Architects, etc. Additionally, he has supported almost 60 professionals in pursuit of advanced fellowships and certifications.
 

He is an officer of the AIA’s College of Fellows Executive Committee and will serve as its Chancellor in 2028. He is a Past-President of the ACHA, and he recently led the AIA Architecture and Well-being study for the national AIA Strategic Council which led to the passage of the national AIA Health and Wellbeing Policy resolution. He was invited to serve on two international COVID Rapid Response Taskforces, and he is the current AIA chair of the AIA/AGC Joint Committee to deepen the links between design and construction. He also leads an award-winning research team pioneering the intersection of design and bioethics, served as a Senator of the World Business Angels Forum, and is a founder of several business startups.