Guiding leaders through change with business and emotional intelligence

Hello

I work with healthcare, VC and PE-backed leadership teams at inflection points: M&A integration, leadership transition, turnaround, scaling growth.

I close the gap between strategy and execution using business intelligence and emotional intelligence. That entails understanding the operating model (strategy, structure, processes, and skills) and the people.  

As your fractional partner, I bring:

  • An athlete's mindset. As an endurance athlete, I set ambitious goals and hold myself accountable to achieve them. This is my own leadership practice. Endurance sports have built my mental strength and taught me how to read what my body and mind need. This practice of self-awareness sharpens how I lead myself and others. 

  • Twenty years working the intersection of strategy, operations, leadership, and finance. Regional health systems, PE-backed behavioral health, VC-funded startups, management consulting, investment finance, global public health. This breadth gives me perspective and helps me diagnose a problem accurately.

  • Emotional intelligence. I build connections, surface meaningful insights, reduce misunderstanding, and de-escalate conflict.

How I work

Fractional leadership: Embedded, part-time executive support (COO, Chief of Staff) for healthcare, VC and PE-backed organizations navigating M&A integration, leadership transition, turnaround or scaling growth.

One-on-one advising: Individual advising for executives facing inflection points.

Workshops: Team and leadership workshops on structural, operational, and cultural alignment, workforce engagement, and communication, built around what your team is facing.

Thought Leadership

Essays and frameworks on self and organizational leadership

Results

  • Diagnosed structural root causes of medical staff disengagement at a regional medical center, delivering a stabilization plan that gave leadership a clear path forward

  • 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