Bill Hercules is an award-winning architect who empowers healthcare leadership teams to shape their future places of care. Having planned and/or executed architecture totaling 36-msf and a present value of $14.8bn, Bill’s bold cross-disciplinary ideation accelerates mission alignment and attracts the future. After practicing architecture for almost three decades, Bill founded WJH Health, a global consultancy to resolve the place of care 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 190 publications including U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Modern Healthcare, Beckers Healthcare, Hastings Center, 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 for Healthcare Engineering, American College of Healthcare Executives, American Institute of Architects, etc. and grant awards with The Donaghue Foundation, and Greenwall Foundation. Additionally, he has supported more than 60 professionals in obtaining fellowships, certifications, awards, offices, and grants.
 

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 Wellbeing 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 co-founded BPR Lab, an award-winning, interdisciplinary, international think tank at the nexus of bioethics and architecture, and co-founded the Advanced Clinical Design Institute, an immersive certification program in high-intensity healthcare environments.