Consulting

 

Leading a nonprofit, a behavioral health organization, or a healthcare practice is not like running any other kind of enterprise. The mission is personal. The stakes are human. The resources are never enough. And the expectation — from your board, your funders, your community, and yourself — is that you will figure it out anyway.

I've been figuring it out for more than 30 years.

As the President and CEO of one of Long Island's largest health and human services organizations, I have led a $28 million enterprise through public health crises, funding shortfalls, workforce upheaval, and the relentless pressure of serving 35,000 people annually who have nowhere else to turn.

 

Before that, I tripled revenues and grew a regional addiction services organization nine-fold.

 

I have built programs from scratch, secured more than $18 million in new funding, navigated state and federal regulatory environments, and sat at tables where the decisions made determined whether people got the help they needed or didn't.

 

I have also faced my own version of an organizational crisis — a cancer diagnosis, twice — and applied the same leadership frameworks I use professionally to navigate it. That experience fundamentally sharpened how I think about resilience, performance, and what it takes to sustain excellence under pressure.
 

I offer consulting services to nonprofits, behavioral health organizations, and healthcare practices that are ready to grow, stabilize, or transform. Whether you are trying to strengthen your leadership team, diversify your funding, sharpen your strategic direction, improve your operational performance, or navigate a critical transition, I bring something most consultants cannot: decades of doing this work myself, at the highest levels, in exactly the kinds of organizations I now serve. I am not an academic who studied your sector from the outside. I am a practitioner who has lived it — and who knows the difference between advice that sounds good in a boardroom and strategies that actually work in the field.
 

My consulting approach is direct, practical, and built around your specific organization's needs. I do not offer cookie-cutter frameworks or generic recommendations. I ask hard questions, listen carefully, and work alongside your leadership to develop solutions that are grounded in the realities of your mission, your community, and your resources.

 

If you are ready for a thought partner who has been where you are and knows what it takes to move forward, I would welcome the conversation.

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