Clarity. Trust. Alignment. Results.
I help healthcare leaders navigate change and grow through inflection points.

Hello


I create clarity, trust, alignment, and results. I understand businesses and the people in them, and I advise on operating models, organizational development, and leadership so you and your team perform at your best.

As your partner, I bring:

  • Experience and attention to detail, to lower risk and find high impact solutions. I have over twenty years of experience across regional health systems and medical centers, PE-backed behavioral health, VC-funded startups, management consulting, and global public health. That range gives me a unique perspective. I catch patterns and details others miss.

  • Emotional intelligence, to surface insights and build trust. I read what people are feeling, thinking, and needing, and then I connect that to how an organization should be designed and led. 

  • An athlete's mindset, to navigate challenges and reach potential. I've finished four 100-mile trail ultramarathons. Training and racing teach me that leadership means reading multiple terrains at once: what's ahead, what's right in front of you, and what's in you, then calibrating your effort and your plan to match. True capacity comes from pairing your best effort with honest awareness of your strengths and limits. I bring that same awareness to the teams I work with, so you can think clearly, work through challenges, and keep making progress.

I help you diagnose, decide, build, and grow.

Every leader is trying to answer the same questions: what's constraining us, what do our people need right now, what's the right path forward? Every leader needs a toolkit to answer them, and there's no single right one. What matters is having one, keeping it sharp, and knowing which tool the moment calls for.

I bring twenty years of experience and frameworks grounded in research and tested in my career. Paired with your business knowledge, your intuition, and the reality of your organization, together we build clarity, trust, alignment, and results.

My contribution to your toolkit:

Diagnose

Alignment: A diagnostic built on the 4S model (strategy, structure, processes, and skills) that shows what's constraining your organization's performance.

The Trust Playbook: A diagnostic for trust problems. It shows where trust is strong or weak, why, what it costs, and how to fix it.

The Six Human Needs at Work: An instrument to read what your people need so you can build trust and engagement.

Know Where You Stand: A framework for improved strategic decisions by reading three landscapes before you decide: the terrain you're navigating, the state of your team, and your own internal state. 

Decide

Three-Lever Leadership: A way to decide faster and influence outcomes more effectively with three decision levers: behavior, boundary, or operating model

Build

Comprehensive Quality Planning: A healthcare planning framework that creates alignment and trust by putting quality at the center of every goal.

Grow

Threshold Leaders: A practice to develop the discipline of leading under pressure.

These are tools I've built, use, share, and revise, not the only ones for this work.

Read more on Substack.

How I contribute

I work with leaders and teams at inflection points: transitions, growth, realingment, turnarounds.

  • Executive advising: I provide strategic guidance on business challenges, organizational design, and complex decisions.

  • Projects: I untangle challenges, read what your people and business need, and clarify priorities. Then I design solutions and advise on leadership to drive results.

  • Fractional leadership: I lead change initiatives inside a business unit or team.

  • Workshops: I build sessions around what you need, to create cultural, strategic, and operational alignment.

Thought Leadership

I write about how to lead yourself and your organization well to bring out your best.

I share frameworks and diagnostics I've built and personal stories from my own life at work, on the trail, and in the world.

Results

  • Diagnosed root causes of medical staff disengagement at a regional medical center, delivering a stabilization plan to repair trust. Advise CEO.

  • Redesigned annual planning for a 6-hospital regional health system and academic medical center, cutting system goals from 18 to 12 and establishing shared priorities

  • Improved operating margin 4% through pricing strategy and operational turnaround at VC-backed services company

  • Sourced and closed proprietary M&A deal adding $1.1M EBITDA and new market territory for PE-backed autism therapy provider

  • Restored financial compliance at VC-backed mental health SaaS startup through balance sheet cleanup, bank access controls, procurement and expense policies, and tax compliance

  • Accomplished ultra marathoner with four 100 mile finishes, NH48er