Guide revenue generation initiatives for this best-in-class mental health hospital. Coordinate the work of the business development, admissions, and marketing teams while ensuring that the entire hospital is communicating a common message. Differentiate the hospital as a clinically-excellent provider of mental health treatment for adults and adolescents.

Drive legislative agenda focused on economic development, improved healthcare access, and healthcare delivery system financing. Facilitate regulatory review and appropriate approval of development projects. Negotiate statutory language with legislators, administrative staff, trade associations, lobbyists, and regulators.

Responsible for branding and ensuring that all communications are on message and consistent with that brand. Capitalize on High Watch's strengths to differentiate two residential and outpatient recovery centers (totaling 180 beds) from others in the marketplace. Oversee all external communications including Strategic Communications, Outreach and Business Development, Outcomes Research, Marketing, Community Relations, Patient Advocacy, and Public Affairs.

Responsible for all client relationships and for the development of new business. Managed client consulting projects, providing hands-on expertise in the healthcare field. Provided direct management of the system’s wholly-owned, for-profit subsidiary managing a budget of $10 million and a staff of 90 employees.Developed strong relationships with client leadership including hospital CEO’s and municipal CEO’s. Developed successful marketing and growth plan. Developed all sales materials and presentations. Appeared before prospective clients and government bodies.

Took an unknown candidate, built an organization and message around him and won the convention, primary, and 47% of the vote in the general election. Crafted campaign message and strategy and coordinated its execution in concert with media consultant, finance consultants, pollster, multiple vendors, and internal staff. Message development and communication. Designed successful message to position the candidate favorably among multiple targeted swing voter segments. For each targeted voter segment, authored and delivered the proper message through multiple media including television, radio, mail, and press. Developed strong press relationship and led extensive and focused proactive and reactive earned media program involving print, television, and new media outlets. Multi-campaign coordination. Led successful grass-roots voter outreach system coordinating the efforts of twelve different candidate campaigns and political operations. This coordinated effort led to the election of three challenger candidates winning by fewer than fifty votes.

Rebuilt financially challenged non-profit with a deeply divided Board of Directors. Responsible for all budgeting, financial performance, and reporting. Led significant financial turn-around. Upon my exit, consulted to Board of Directors and hired my replacement.

Assisted and advised clients in improving internal controls, accounting systems, and operations, which enhanced their performance and secured for them a reliable control environment. Performed audits for publicly traded and private clients. Clients included hospitals, large physician groups, non-profits, and managed healthcare insurers.

Drafted congressional testimony and correspondence to advance the University's goals related to the Georgetown University Medical Center. Collaborated with contract lobbyists within the legislative branch and the Department of Defense.