Helping Leaders Focus on What Matters Most
We support the people and organizations on a mission to solve the most critical healthcare challenges of our time.
We partner with visionary hospitals and healthcare companies to assess and maximize leadership impact, build cultures that drive industry-leading outcomes, and effectively manage constant change.
Amidst the constant change and evolving complexity in the industry, healthcare leaders are facing more pressure than ever. Recent studies have shown that workforce/personnel shortages, financial challenges, and staff burnout are all top issues confronting hospitals and healthcare leaders today. These problems are barriers to creating value, driving performance, and ensuring employee engagement and retention, and patient satisfaction
Coupled with complex business challenges including consolidation, merger integration, and the shift to value-based care, leading a healthcare organization in today’s environment can be a uniquely uphill climb.
To ensure success, healthcare CEOs and executives recognize that developing high-performing leaders, teams, and cultures is key. For nearly four decades, FMG Leading has done just that - partnering with the nation’s top healthcare organizations in the development of strategy and human capital solutions that prepare leaders and teams to drive results. We serve as trusted advisors and guides, walking alongside leaders to achieve sustainable growth and industry-leading outcomes.
FMG Leading brings industry-specific experience that gives us valuable insight into healthcare dynamics and needs. Our customized solutions address the unique challenges facing today’s healthcare executives and are designed to drive business impact and create a measurable return on investment.
Our Solutions Help Healthcare Leaders Address Challenges Across 3 Key Areas:
Individual Leader Quality
Assessment, selection & onboarding
Succession planning
Founder transitions
Building leader capacity & capability
Leader EQ, awareness, blind spots
Physician leader development
Team Performance
Executive team misalignment
Siloed organization
Executive team dysfunction / dynamics
Building change agility
New team formation
Overall team performance
Structure and Strategy
Organizational structure / realignment
Growth strategy
Strategic narrative / communications
Culture design and alignment
Board relations / dynamics
M&A / integration challenges
Healthcare Sectors We Serve
Hospitals, Integrated Health Systems, and Academic Medical Centers
Ambulatory, outpatient, and multi-site care delivery organizations
Payors, Pharmaceuticals, and Healthcare Technology
Physician Leader Development
Research shows that physicians prefer to be led by other physicians, and having physicians in senior leadership roles is critical to addressing the challenges facing healthcare today. Despite this, hospitals and healthcare services organizations face a shortage of truly effective physician leaders – doctors with the experience, skills and desire to take on expanded leadership roles.
Complex and matrixed / integrated healthcare systems require leaders with well-honed influence, collaboration and communication skills. Our physician leader development solutions help build skills such as how to allocate short and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – all critical leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business.
Our Physician Leadership Development Solutions Include:
Design of tailored programs and culturally aligned strategies that help organizations identify, develop and promote physician leaders.
Building individual leadership capacity through one-on-one executive coaching.
Ensuring dyad-model effectiveness through assessment, advising, and development.
Providing ongoing education to increase the capacity to lead change and align organizational culture.
Build A Physician Leadership Pipeline
Through our research and experience, we have developed a five-level physician leadership pipeline designed to help healthcare organizations guide their clinician leaders to next-level readiness and ensure their continued success. As physicians grow through the leadership pipeline, their skills and focus shift in accordance with their expanded responsibilities, allowing them to lead others and drive transformation with greater success.
What our Healthcare Clients Say
"The contributions of FMG Leading have been an invaluable asset to the growth and performance of our leaders, their teams and the entire company. We wouldn’t be where we are today without them.”
Paul Viviano
CEO, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
“If you feel that your organizational effectiveness is impeded because your leadership team is not firing on all cylinders, or if you feel that your own limitations as a leader are impacting the organization, then FMG Leading can really help you make progress.”
Jess Parks
President, Sound Physicians
"If you're looking for a firm that can help you navigate the complexity of gathering unbiased, actionable feedback, and then help individuals translate that into a plan that will make a substantial difference in their professional life, you should talk to FMG Leading.”
Andy Xilas
President, Hu-Friedy
"Our partnership with FMG Leading enabled us to merge the old with the new, allowing us to grow into a place where our team was aligned, moving in lock-step with our board, and advancing the company forward in a very healthy and proactive way.”
Jerome Parnell III
Founder and CEO, ImmunoTek
“The team at FMG Leading are extremely talented business partners; I trust them in a very rare way. They are a class act that understands value creation … and the importance of culture, talent, and people in any such equation.”
Michael Rucker
CEO, Ivy Rehab
"In terms of culture, understanding what you've got, where you're at, and the multiple options around the big levers and value points that drive a culture, FMG Leading is bar none the best in my experience ... it's extraordinary.”
Andrew Hayek
CEO, Triple Aim Partners; former CEO OptumHealth and SCA Health
"FMG Leading is a thoughtful, collaborative partner that has accelerated our journey to serve more patients and families. This partnership has enabled growth and positioned us as an employer of choice in each of the markets we operate.”
David Grams
CEO, Compassus
"Cultural change and rapid growth are two very difficult goals for a company with new ownership and management to achieve on their own. FMG Leading helped us prepare and plan for the most challenging phases of this change, easing the stress on the organization."
Leonard Castiglione
CEO, OB Hospitalist Group
"FMG Leading’s executive assessment went beyond just a report-out, providing us with a detailed roadmap for ongoing leadership development and improvement. This additional insight created a higher level of confidence and helped ensure a successful outcome."
George Fotiades
Former President and CEO, Cantel Medical Group
Healthcare Thought Leadership
Featured Healthcare Clients
Contact our Healthcare Practice Leaders
Jennifer Perry, Managing Principal
Jennifer focuses on meeting the human capital needs of FMG Leading’s growing portfolio of hospital and healthcare clients, while consulting on large-scale change and leadership development projects. Previously, Jennifer worked at St. Joseph Health System as SVP Organizational Effectiveness and Strategic Planning, and as a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting serving the health care and insurance industries.
Addam Marcotte, Managing Principal
Addam focuses on helping healthcare services and private-equity backed healthcare companies enhance strategic alignment, lead change, build internal trust, and improve interpersonal dynamics. Addam often interfaces as a strategic advisor between board-level or private equity sponsors and healthcare portfolio company executives.