I help CEOs, Boards, and executive teams turn strategy into results: designing the operating model, integrating organizations, sites, and services, and building the measures and leadership that make growth last.
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I've led in very different rooms: US financial services, a health profession regulator, international humanitarian work, a national federation, and multi-site health care. In each one I've done the same thing: taken an organization's biggest ambitions and built the strategy, operating model, and accountability that make them real.
Most recently, as Chief Strategy and Integration Officer at a regional multi-site, multi-service health organization, I held combined strategy, operations, and finance accountability, reporting to the CEO and partnering with the Board. I led post-merger integration, scaled virtual care and mobile clinics from pilot to ongoing operation, expanded access through partner co-location instead of new construction, rebuilt financial controls with KPMG, and grew revenue 61% in three years. Through a joint executive appointment, I also integrated health and child and family services on a shared site.
Before that, as National Vice President, Strategy and Operations for a federation of 99 independently governed agencies, I aligned an entire network with no formal authority over any part of it, and directed an enterprise transformation with Bain & Company.
Today I advise leaders of hospitals and health systems, physician practices, urgent care and community health organizations, academic institutions, and growth-stage companies on integration, growth, fiscal performance, and leading change. I'm also completing a Doctor of Health Care Administration at Oklahoma State University, researching how organizations can integrate and grow sustainably while improving outcomes.
What ties it together: I don't just recommend. I build the coalition, the business case, and the operating structure that make an idea real, and I stay accountable until it holds.
Three examples from my executive roles, each the kind of challenge growing organizations face every day.
Two organizations had merged, but staff at the legacy site never fully joined the new one, and a large flagship site built with significant public investment sat underused.
Made the case to fully use the flagship rather than build new, led its renovation and the move, spoke at town halls, led the rebrand, and kept services close to the legacy community through partner co-locations instead of a new building.
One site, one operating model, one identity, with existing capital put to full use.
A growing organization with material weaknesses in its financial controls and no dedicated CFO.
Engaged KPMG to rebuild the control environment, led the audit relationship, built the business cases and funder relationships behind new services, put a scorecard and risk framework in place, and created a dedicated CFO role.
Revenue up 61% and public payer funding up 58% in three years, with clean audits throughout.
A national federation of 99 independently governed agencies, each with its own board and leadership, and no obligation to follow the center.
Designed the strategic framework and operating model, secured the largest agencies first, won buy-in region by region, directed an enterprise transformation with Bain & Company, and guided agency leaders through COVID-19.
One strategy, shared standards, and common performance measures across the federation.
I work with CEOs, Boards, and senior leaders as an independent advisor and a hands-on partner who stays through delivery.
Turning ambition into a strategy the organization can execute, with priorities, owners, and measures behind it.
Bringing acquired practices, new sites, merged teams, and partner services into one operating model, brand, and culture.
Designing the structures, roles, decision rights, and accountability needed to deliver at the next stage of growth.
Scorecards, financial models, scenarios, and risk frameworks that give leaders and Boards clarity before they decide.
Governance that keeps pace with the organization, with the right roles, committees, and oversight.
Moving from knowing change is needed to change that people adopt and sustain.
Aligning physicians, partners, funders, and independent leaders around a shared outcome, without relying on authority.
Expanding access through virtual, mobile, and partner-site models, and structuring services around the populations you serve.
Confidential, independent counsel for CEOs and Boards facing complex or high-stakes decisions.
Engagements typically run one to three quarters.
All work is confidential. Client names are withheld under NDA, consistent with standard advisory practice.
Advised executives on integration, fiscal efficiency, balancing budgets, and setting a new strategic direction.
Advised practice owners and operators on integration, partnerships, fiscal efficiency, and sustainable growth.
Led a multi-stream repositioning: theory of change, strategic plan design, rebrand, and governance restructuring.
Supported strategic planning, partnerships, and organizational design aligned to long-term institutional goals.
Redesigned governance, Board composition, and skills matrices, and rebuilt Balanced Scorecards and enterprise risk frameworks.
Advised founders on strategic clarity and operating structure, and coach senior executives leading through change.
I teach Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the graduate and undergraduate levels, most recently at the Schulich School of Business and Durham College, bringing real executive experience into the classroom.
I'm also the founder and head curator of TEDxDonMills, where I built an independent TEDx conference from concept to stage and coached leaders to turn complex ideas into compelling talks.
For nonprofit, charitable, educational, and mission-driven organizations, I offer flexible, impact-aligned pricing so meaningful work and learning stay accessible.
Audiences leave with more than frameworks: a clearer sense of how to turn ambition into structure, align people and operations around a shared strategy, and lead through complexity without losing sight of why the organization exists.
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