Navvis & Company Professionals
For over two decades, leading hospitals and healthcare systems across the country have engaged Navvis & Company for the experience, dedication and insights of our seasoned professionals. Combining a rigorous, analytical discipline with a creative and visionary perspective, Navvis & Company professionals innovate, inspire and drive results-oriented change needed for growth and long-term competitive advantage. We encourage you to meet our executives, strategists, consultants, analysts and project managers. Feel free to drop them an email or give then a call. It just might lead to the change your organization is looking for.
Stuart B. Baker, MD – President and Chief Operating Officer
Stuart provides strategic counsel and implementation expertise on competitive market strategy, futuristic models of health care delivery, innovative design of the health system enterprise, hospital physician partnerships, physician group practice, leadership and governance. His experience as a clinician, physician leader, health system officer, clinical professor of medicine and corporate executive provides clients with the unique perspective and experience of both a physician and business leader.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Stuart spent 10 years at VHA Inc. (Irving, Texas), one of the country’s leading healthcare alliances, most recently as Executive Vice President and the first Chief Operating Officer. He was responsible for both business and field operations, supply chain management, the $32 billion group purchasing organization, and the 1,400+ hospital network and clinical improvement strategies. Stuart joined VHA as Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs. In that role, he introduced innovative clinical effectiveness and patient safety programs which saved a significant number of lives, avoided complications, saved money and enhanced the reputation of many VHA member hospitals. He also directed VHA’s physician leadership and education programs.
Before joining VHA, Stuart was the first Chief Medical Officer for Sentara Healthcare (Norfolk, Virginia) and the first Chief Executive Officer of the Sentara Medical Group. He was a clinical and business leader of Sentara’s hospital, ambulatory, physician and managed care strategies. He practiced internal medicine and rheumatology for over 20 years, and was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, where he won three best teacher awards. He is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he completed his internship and residency and was assistant chief of service in the Department of Medicine. He completed fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Stuart has served on eleven boards of directors in the for-profit and non-profit sectors of the health care industry. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs, served on two steering committees at the National Quality Forum, and was a strategic advisor to The Health Technology Center (HealthTech) in San Francisco. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology. In 2003, Stuart was selected as one of Modern Physician’s 25 visionary physician ‘Movers and Shakers.’
Email Stuart: sbaker@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Stuart: 636-536-9443
Saad J. Allawi - President, Performance Transformation
Saad Allawi is the President of Performance Transformation at Navvis & Company. He specializes in performance improvement and cost reductions, and has directed over 50 organization-wide cost reduction, performance improvement and business process redesign projects for healthcare organizations. Having created the first two generations of cost reduction, he is currently leading the effort to implement the next generation at Navvis.
Prior to his present role, Saad had been a consultant for 33 years, 22 of those in the healthcare industry helping organizations improve performance. He was a senior vice president of Nextera Business Performance Solutions, chairman of William M. Mercer’s Healthcare Provider Practice, and the director of APM’s Operations Improvement Practice. Most recently, Saad co-founded Performance Logic – a provider of performance management software for the health care industry.
Saad is a national leader on healthcare performance improvement and has published many articles and a book chapter on healthcare management, as well as lecturing and running seminars on various healthcare issues for national organizations. In 1993, while at William M. Mercer, he launched the “100 Top Hospitals” study in conjunction with HCIA, and still serves on its advisory board.
Saad received a bachelor of engineering in mechanical engineering from Liverpool University and an M.B.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Email Saad: sallawi@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Saad: 636-536-9443
Karen Corrigan – Chief Strategy Officer
Karen Corrigan is a leading proponent for market-driven strategy in the health industry. She provides counsel on development and growth of integrated health systems, competitive positioning and differentiation, business development, brand building and strategic marketing for hospitals, health systems and businesses serving the health industry.
Before joining Navvis & Company, Karen founded and served as CEO of The Strategy Group (TSG), a management consultancy specializing in competitive strategy in the health industry. The Strategy Group merged with Navvis & Company in 2008. Prior to TSG, she was corporate vice president for System Development at Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, VA, leading corporate strategy, business development, marketing, government and public affairs activities across the health system’s diverse portfolio of hospitals, ambulatory care, physician services, post acute/long term care companies and health plans. Over the course of her career, she also worked with Riverside Health System in Newport News, Virginia and with Valley Health System in Winchester, Virginia. Today, her clients include health systems and hospitals, health plans, physician organizations, professional service firms and healthcare associations.
Karen is a graduate of Virginia Wesleyan College, where she majored in business and economics. She has held board and officer positions for the American Marketing Association, the Alliance for Healthcare Strategy, and the Virginia Society for Healthcare Marketing. Karen is also a member of ACHE, SHSMD and the Forum for Healthcare Strategists and serves on the editorial board for Marketing Health Services. Karen speaks frequently on topics regarding competitive strategy, trends and forces in the health industry and has published numerous articles and papers.
Email Karen: kcorrigan@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Karen: 757-640-8515
Jeff Miller – Executive Vice President & Founding Partner
Jeff Miller has developed decision support tools and resources that support strategy and business development for our clients. His pragmatic and focused approach to strategy formulation and business development has enabled our clients to move confidently from the creation of market-leading business strategies to their successful execution.
Jeff has over 20 years of health care experience. He has worked with a broad range of healthcare organizations throughout the country with a strong emphasis on business and medical staff planning for hospitals and health systems. Jeff has overseen and conducted numerous engagements in the areas of strategic and business planning, service line planning, program and service feasibility, and medical staff development.
Jeff holds computer science degrees from the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
Email Jeff: jmiller@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Jeff: 636-536-9443
Tim Elliott - Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Tim Elliott consults with the firm’s healthcare clients on a broad array of transactional legal issues. He has substantial experience in all aspects of physician-hospital integration, physician-hospital joint ventures, physician recruiting, as well as in establishing managed care entities, and drafting and negotiating related agreements including managed care contracts. He is also experienced in business formation, management and shareholder counseling, mergers and acquisitions, purchasing and licensing of intellectual property, and both profit/not-for-profit joint ventures.
Tim is a partner with The Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC, a St. Louis based law firm. Previously, he worked with the firms of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal and also with McDermott, Will & Emery.
Tim Elliott received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Missouri Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the American Health Lawyers Association.
Email Tim: telliott@navvisandcompany.com
Call Tim: 636-536-9443
Terry Bader – Senior Vice President
Terry coordinates all aspects of VisDev Ventures to help turn strategic plans into actual care-centered facilities. A licensed architect with 37 years of combined architectural and construction experience (thirty in the healthcare industry), Terry provides comprehensive oversight crucial to the success of any project.
Throughout his career, Terry has held many titles, including architect, owner, director and executive director. He has been responsible for the construction of major projects ranging from facilities with 1,100 beds and an average annual construction budget of $60,000,000 to multi-state facilities with 4,000 beds and a construction budget of more than a billion dollars.
Additionally, Terry is a member of Architecture Society Healthcare Engineer, The St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers and The Healthcare Roundtable. Terry is a sought-after public speaker and has presented for the American Institute of Architects, Associated General Contractors of St. Louis, ASHE and the Missouri Electrical Board.
Email Terry: tbader@navvis@company.com
Phone Terry: 636-449-2953
Jim Barrington – Senior Vice President
Jim provides expert counsel to Navvis & Company clients in the area of healthcare operations management and organizational development. He has extensive experience in revenue management, physician practices management and process improvement and has built a successful track record in managing large operations improvement and hospital turnarounds.
Immediately prior to joining Navvis & Company, Jim worked as an independent consultant assisting clients in reducing direct and indirect labor expense. He worked for 23 years with Ernst & Young LLP and spent six years with a proprietary hospital management firm. Prior to that, Jim worked with a large mid-west medical center.
Jim earned a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Email Jim: jbarrington@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Jim: 636-536-9443
Michael Eaton – Senior Vice President
Mike offers more than 25 years experience effecting change in the healthcare industry and national policy and politics. He is known for his ability to identify and execute growth opportunities and accelerate healthcare marketing, business development and innovation efforts. Mike is responsible for Navvis and Company’s brand and marketing portfolio. In that capacity he is Managing Director of Brand+Lever, Navvis’ joint venture with BVK to develop and execute integrated brand and marketing strategies to grow high-performing clinical enterprises.
Prior to joining Navvis Mike held executive positions in Milwaukee with Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare and Aurora Health Care. At Aurora he was a member of the executive team with responsibility for governmental affairs and operational responsibility for Aurora Family Service. Mike held a series of executive positions with the Wisconsin Medical Society, has served as executive director of the Wisconsin Public Health Association, and was a founder of the Wisconsin Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. Before entering the healthcare arena Mike held leadership positions for members of Congress, serving as legislative director for U.S. Congressmen Bill Emerson and Henry Hyde in the 1980’s and as chief of staff for then Wisconsin State Senator Margaret Farrow in the mid-1990’s. A former lobbyist, he remains connected and conversant on the implementation of health policy reforms at the state and national levels.
Mike graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with honors in Economics and History. He belongs to and is active in several professional societies and healthcare organizations. He has served on numerous boards including the Wisconsin Hospital Association, the Wisconsin Medical Group Management Association; the Institute for Illinois; and boards for a number of community non-profits.
Email Mike: meaton@navvisandcompany.com
Call Mike: 636-536-9443
Tracey Moffatt – Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President Tracey Moffatt, MHA, BSN, RN provides strategic counsel, planning and implementation support for strategic planning, physician alignment, accountable clinical management and performance transformation engagements.
Prior to joining Navvis, she held the positions of executive vice president for clinical performance and also chief nurse executive at St. John’s Mercy Health Care in St. Louis, Missouri. There she provided leadership and accountability for clinical and operational performance in a variety of venues, including direct accountability for clinical and operational performance improvement strategies, public reporting, regulatory compliance, patient safety and quality of care; as well as for multiple organizational and joint venture operations, including pharmacy, nursing, surgical services, long term care and skilled care. She previously held the positions of vice president of clinical operations and director of clinical resource management at Mercy Medical Center in Laredo, Texas, and as manager for clinical pathway development and clinical case management at Mercy Hospital in New Orleans.
Ms. Moffatt holds a master of science in healthcare administration from Trinity University in San Antonio,Texas and a bachelor of science in nursing from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has received numerous awards and honors, including the Missouri Hospital Association Distinguished Quality Professional in 2009 and the Dr. Ted R. Sparling Award of Academic Excellence in 2001.
Email Tracey: tmoffatt@navvisandcompany.com
Call Tracey: 636-536-9443
C.B. Rebsamen – Senior Vice President
Dr. Rebsamen provides strategic counsel to health system, hospital and physician organizations on hospital-physician partnerships, physician enterprise development, and physician group practice, leadership and governance.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Dr. Rebsamen served as chief medical officer at Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS) in Fort Myers, Florida. There, he had responsibility for development of the health system’s physician enterprise, ambulatory and post acute care operations, managed care strategies and other business ventures involving LMHS’s physicians and strategic partners. Prior to joining Lee Memorial, he served as president and CEO of the Medical Care Associates of Tulsa, Inc., a 44-physician multi-specialty medical group; as medical director of PruCare Group Model HMO, also in Tulsa; and as medical director for Prudential Plus of Tulsa.
Dr. Rebsamen holds an undergraduate and MD degree from University of Arkansas, and did his post-graduate training in internal medicine at the Tulsa Medical Education Foundation. He is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Medical Management, and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Email C.B.: crebsamen@navvisandcompany.com
Call C.B.: 407-571-1242
Kristi Short – Senior Vice President
Kristi Short leads strategic planning, service line development and post acute care strategy engagements for health system clients, and oversees the firm’s planning and market analysis functions. With more than 20 years experience in strategic planning, business development and strategy implementation in the healthcare and financial services industries, she brings a valuable perspective to her work with client organizations having led broad-based initiatives in two heavily regulated and dynamic sectors.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, she worked for Centerre Healthcare and HealthSouth as VP of Development. There she served as the lead developer in orchestrating specialty hospital and technology joint ventures with large academic medical centers as well as smaller community providers. Previously, she directed planning activities for BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, MO. Before entering the healthcare industry, Kristi worked in the financial services area. She served as senior vice president with responsibility for strategic planning and oversight of the electronic payments operations for the Eighth Federal Reserve District. She also chaired several Federal Reserve Subcommittees during her 13 year tenure.
Kristi is a graduate of Kansas State University and hold a master’s in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
Email Kristi: kshort@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Kristi: 636-536-9443
Greg Wilson – Senior Vice President
Greg offers clients more than 25 years of finance experience in healthcare and medical-related fields, including management consulting, financial operations and auditing. His expertise is in financial analysis, forecasting and modeling, reimbursement, business valuation and transactions in hospital, outpatient facility and physician practice settings, including the impact of provider based reimbursement relative to freestanding or joint venture operations. Greg leads our finance team in the analysis of physician practices, including allocation of professional vs. ancillary revenues and expenses, post-integration analyses from the hospital’s perspective, analyzing the sources of historical physician compensation, and developing fair market value physician compensation models.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Greg served as chief financial officer for Lasersight Inc., a publicly traded medical device manufacturing company. Greg was responsible for all SEC reporting, annual reports to shareholders, accounting, finance, treasury functions and tax filings. Additionally, he has been involved in the negotiation and managed the due diligence for significant debt and equity capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and intellectual property license agreements. Before Lasersight, Greg was a senior manager at Deloitte & Touche Consulting in St. Louis, focusing in the healthcare field.
Greg earned his bachelor of science degree in accounting from Missouri State University.
Email Greg: gwilson@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Greg: 407-571-1242
Don Andrews - Vice President
Don Andrews has 30 years experience in the healthcare industry. He brings clients a broad base of experience in enhancing financial performance through market and organizational opportunity development and in guiding organizations through challenging decision processes. Don also has extensive experience in facilitating strategy, business development and financial assessments with hospital and health system boards, senior management, and medical staffs.
Don has led successful project teams on more than 200 engagements in a variety of healthcare industry segments, including inpatient acute, post acute care, ambulatory, solo and group physician practices, Catholic and other multi-hospital systems, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers and practice plans, medical schools, public hospitals, rural hospitals, medical equipment manufacturers, proprietary chains, and professional service organizations. Projects have included clinical service line development, medical staff, organizational and facilities development, mergers and acquisitions, reimbursement optimization, and financial feasibility and financing.
Prior positions include senior manager with Ernst & Young Health Strategy Group, and director of the Washington University School of Medicine/Barnes Jewish Hospital Joint Office of Strategic Planning. Don is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He received a bachelor’s degree in community health education from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in health services management from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Email Don: dandrews@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Don: 636-536-9443
Matthew Beckwith – Vice President
Matthew leads major cost and operational restructuring initiatives to enhance organizational performance. He has 15 years experience in industry and consulting with both national and global firms. His expertise includes directing cross-functional teams in finance, human resources, purchasing, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering, product development and IT to achieve transformational change.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Matthew worked on projects across the country and around the globe, which included; Restructuring purchasing and supply chain functions for a $2.5 billion healthcare equipment manufacturing company with operations in 42 countries; Leading a service development and strategy project for the largest 4G wireless roll-out in the US., saving over $260 million in development costs; Restructuring the sales operation center for a $100 million division of a Global 10 chemical company eliminating a $4 million order entry backlog in 10 days; and leading financial planning for developers of a 30 bed specialty medical hospital in the Caribbean in which he developed a business case to secure $100 million in financial backing for hospital construction.
Matthew earned a BSE in aerospace engineering from Princeton University and a MBA in Marketing and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Email Matthew: mbeckwith@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Matthew: 636-536-9443
Carla Bryant – Vice President
Carla Bryant has over 25 years of proven experience in the health industry providing counsel on various aspects of competitive strategy to health systems and technology companies. Carla is known for her ability to identify and implement new product, service and process innovations that support the brand, business and growth strategies of an organization. At Navvis & Company Carla’s focus is on brand positioning, alignment and activation; advanced marketing strategy; web, new media, and social media strategy; and the Innovator’s Studio, a collaborative incubator to assist clients in creating competitive advantage through value innovation.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Carla served as senior vice president for product development and chief technology officer for HealthOnline, a business to business Internet company. Her career also includes 15 years with Sentara Healthcare, where she held positions as director of emerging technology and director of strategic planning. Her innovative product strategy for Sentara’s SpinWeb, a physician-focused technology product, was profiled in Bill Gates’ book Business@The Speed of Thought. Prior to Sentara, she worked as senior planning director and project analyst for Harris Methodist Health System in Fort Worth, Texas (now part of Texas Health Resources).
Carla holds a bachelor of arts in urban studies from Virginia Tech and frequently speaks and writes on competitive strategy, advanced marketing and health industry innovation.
Email Carla: cbryant@navvisandcompany.com
Call Carla: 757-640-8515
Carrie Cleveland - Vice President
Carrie Cleveland, vice president, consults on physician acquisition and integration strategies and the development of physician enterprise models. She brings clients an extensive background in health system operations, strategic physician transactions, clinical improvement and cost restructuring.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Carrie worked as the national accounts manager for a European medical device company and held account management and consulting positions with St. Jude Medical, VHA Consulting Services, Performance Logic, and APM. Additionally, Carrie spent five years in clinical operations with Columbia/HCA.
Carrie earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing and master’s in business administration from Columbia University in New York.
Email Carrie: ccleveland@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Carrie: 407-571-1242
Kathy Gibala - Vice President
Kathy Gibala is a seasoned healthcare management consultant and educator with a broad range of consulting, training and development, and operations experience. She has particular expertise in the areas of culture change, leadership development, creating strategic alignment and merger and acquisition integration.
Kathy began her career as an investigator with the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board. During her 20 years in the healthcare industry, she has held consultant, operations management and senior leadership positions in medium to large healthcare organizations. Her experience encompasses healthcare systems, academic medical centers, community hospitals, pediatric facilities and ambulatory care centers, including two of the nation's Top 10 hospitals.
During her more than 10-year affiliation with a large Midwest health system, Kathy successfully designed and facilitated a broad range of innovative services, strategies and initiatives that promoted patient, physician and employee satisfaction, enhanced service quality and improved overall organization performance. She has extensive experience in developing customized solutions to help organizations enhance leadership and overall organization effectiveness, strengthen patient, employee and physician relations, create strategic alignment and effectively lead and manage organizational change. She received the President’s Award and national recognition for her work in the area of culture change facilitation.
Kathy holds degrees in economics, labor relations and political science from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
Email Kathy: kgibala@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Kathy: 636-536-9443
Kathy Hardesty – Vice President
Kathy brings to Navvis & Company more than twenty years as a healthcare executive focused on hospital operations and education. Her results-oriented approach to planning, implementation and management of programs and processes has led to consistently exceeded expectations in quality measures, patient, physician and employee satisfaction and increased profitability.
Kathy translates her experience as a Vice-President of Nursing/CNO to clients through motivation and support as they attain high levels of performance and achieve bottom-line results for their organization. As a community and hospital education professional, Kathy has significant expertise in creating, implementing and evaluating programs designed to increase the competency of nurses, health care professionals, leaders and consumers.
Kathy’s consulting clients have benefited from her expertise in the areas of nursing leadership development, patient throughput performance, accreditation and licensure compliance and service line development, implementation and outcomes management. In 2005, Kathy co-led the Emergency Department/Hospital Throughput Team, “Creating a Culture of Shared Accountability,” a Missouri Team Quality Award Winner.
Kathy received her bachelor of science degree in community health education from the University of Illinois and her bachelor of science degree in nursing and master’s in public health from Saint Louis University. Kathy is a member of the St. Louis Crises Nursery Advisory Board. The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) has recognized Kathy as Certified in Executive Nursing Practice (CENP).
Email Kathy: khardesty@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Kathy: 636-536-9443
Rachael K Schad – Vice President
Rachael has nine years of healthcare experience. She spent four years with the Aurora Health System as a corporate operations and quality improvement consultant. During this time she worked with hospital administration in the development of productivity standards and resource planning. Rachael worked for three years as the Practice Administrator for a seven provider Orthopedic Practice. She joined Navvis & Company after working with WellStar Health System where she served in the capacity of manager for the Total Joint and Spine Program where her responsibilities included service line planning, operational efficiency and program development
Rachael completed her undergraduate studies in Sociology and graduate studies in Social Work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Later she attended Lakeland College and earned her Master's in Business Administration.
Email Rachael: rschad@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Rachael: 636-536-9443
Richard Slack - Vice President
Rich brings to Navvis more than 25 years of experience directing all aspects of strategic planning, business development and marketing for major healthcare organizations. For our clients, Rich focuses on the development of physician leadership strategies and physician alignment activities. He has directed the development of health service organizations as a senior executive as well as consultant and manager for a large consulting practice. His experience includes business development and marketing strategy for physician groups, academic medical centers, rural hospitals, for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals.
Immediately prior to joining Navvis & Company, Rich was a principal at NTrust, a healthcare consulting firm. Additionally, Rich served as the senior vice president for strategy and business development for Catholic Healthcare West’s St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, and four years as the vice president of strategic and business development for Allina Health System’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
A frequent speaker and presenter on a range of health and health-related topics, Rich holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Nebraska and a master's degree with an emphasis in operations and marketing from the University of Missouri-Columbia, graduating with distinction.
Email Rich: rslack@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Rich: 602-380-4559
Wayne Williams – Vice President of Real Estate & Facility Development
Wayne brings more than 40 years of design and construction experience to Navvis & Company. Wayne’s broad range of construction development expertise spans from purchasing undeveloped land to meeting with potential tenants regarding occupancy and project financing throughout the business and medical facility landscape. He also offers Navvis & Company clients his ability to coordinate the design and construction documents for tenants, arrange zoning and building, project financing, building construction and tenant supervision.
Email Wayne: wwilliams@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Wayne: 636-536-9443
Jon Cunningham - Senior Consultant
Jon Cunningham offers Navvis & Company clients strong analytical, planning and project management skills based on years of experience as a healthcare consultant.
Previously, Jon worked at Ernst & Young where he advised healthcare clients in strategic planning, physician integration, revenue cycle, pharmacy, supply chain and financial analysis. He also held the position of manager for business and product development with VHA Inc. and served in hospital and outpatient operational leadership positions for Trinity Mother Frances Health System.
Jon earned a BS Degree in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in Health Care Administration from Trinity University. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Email Jon: jcunningham@navvisandcompany.com
Phne Jon: 636-536-9443
Sharon Landsbaum – Senior Consultant
Sharon Landsbaum brings to Navvis & Company more than ten years experience in various clinical, academic and hospital settings. She is skilled in market and geographic research to support strategic planning initiatives. Her expertise in the development of performance measurement tools, planning reports and the synthesis of patient and physician encounter data greatly supports Navvis & Company clients throughout difficult decision making processes. Sharon is experienced in clinical service line development both in hospital settings and academic medical center environments.
Prior to joining Navvis, Sharon worked as a planning associate for the Washington University School of Medicine/Barnes Jewish Hospital Joint Office of Strategic Planning.
Sharon received her bachelor of science degree in occupational therapy and MBA from Saint Louis University. Sharon is a board member for the not-for-profit organization, Memory Care Home Solutions.
Email Sharon: slandsbaum@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Sharron: 636-536-9443
Ben Shaker - Senior Consultant
As senior consultant, Ben assists Navvis & Company clients in the areas of strategic planning, physician integration and alignment, and hospital operations. Ben has worked with academic medical centers, community hospitals, health systems, and physician practice groups throughout the country and is skilled in managing hospital/physician relationships, developing service line strategies, providing project management support, and creating financial modeling tools.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Ben was a consultant with Ernst & Young in West Palm Beach, FL. In his former position, he focused on hospital performance improvement initiatives, strategy development and implementation, and revenue cycle enhancement. Ben has also worked in hospital settings in strategic planning and risk management.
Ben received his bachelor of arts degree in economics from Youngstown State University and his master’s degree in healthcare administration from The Ohio State University. Ben is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Email Ben: bshaker@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Ben: 407-571-1242
Allison Sherwat – Senior Consultant
Senior consultant Allison Sherwat provides strategic counsel, market analysis and project management support for strategic planning, service line development, brand, business and market development engagements. She is skilled in quantitative market assessments, competitive profiles, financial analysis, and strategy formulations, and has worked with health systems, hospitals, academic medical centers and physician organizations.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Allison was a Senior Associate with The Lewin Group in Washington, D.C. Previously she served as senior project manager in the business planning and market development division at Partners HealthCare, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts; and as project specialist in the decision support and quality management unit at Massachusetts General. In those roles she developed and implemented strategies for clinical service lines, physician group management, physician recruitment and retention, new facility development, marketing programs, research program development, and academic affiliations.
Allison holds a master’s degree in public health with a health care management concentration from Boston University and a bachelor of arts degree from Brandeis University.
Email Allison: asherwat@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Allison: 757-640-8515
Anne Theis – Senior Consultant
Anne has more than 25 years experience as a marketing executive and consultant in the healthcare industry. For the past two years, she was actively involved in the development of the Innovator’s Studio and currently consults for the brand and marketing practice.
Before joining Navvis & Company, Anne managed product development, marketing, sales and service operations for VHA’s (Irving, TX) clinical and consumer marketing portfolio. In that role, she led the development, launch and growth of innovative marketing programs to differentiate cardiac, neurosciences and diabetes service lines for participating member hospitals. At VHA, she also coordinated development of strategic marketing education for regional boards of directors and marketing councils and supported the organization’s affinity group for marketing executives.
Previously Anne owned and operated a marketing consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, marketing, research, brand identity and event planning for healthcare, legal, financial, and education clients. She was also the director of marketing and public relations for Franciscan Sisters Health Care, a Catholic-sponsored system with 22 affiliates in four mid-western states. She began her marketing career at the St. Cloud Hospital (now CentraCare).
Anne is a graduate of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. She served as a board member for the AHA Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development, and is past president of the Minnesota Council for HealthCare Marketing and Public Relations. She speaks regularly at national and regional professional associations. She has a passion for social and new media and currently consults on the topic with several non-profit organizations in the Dallas area.
Email Anne: atheis@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Anne: 757-640-8515
Susan Lilly – Consultant
Susan Lilly provides research support for competitive strategic planning, brand awareness, business development and Innovator’s Studio projects. She identifies and monitors emerging trends and forces driving consumer behavior and demand for healthcare, projects the impact of changing market forces on the health services industry and assesses their potential impact. By examining trends inside and outside the health care industry, she conducts strategic assessments, identifies opportunities for product and service line growth, analyzes and sizes market potential for new products and services, tracks trends in health benefits, specialized health services, and health systems.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Susan held positions with Sentara Healthcare (Norfolk, VA), Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services, the American College of Physicians, and the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in Washington, D.C.
Susan holds a master of health science in health policy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and a bachelor of arts in American government from the University of Virginia.
Email Susan: slilly@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Susan: 757-640-8515
Tyler Oleksy – Consultant
Tyler works with Navvis clients and executives in the areas of strategic healthcare planning and market analysis. Tyler’s vast market research experience helps clients identify quantifiable operational strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, including development of analytic programs assessing key financial, operational, and demographic data to support deployment of both long- and short-term strategic business imperatives.
Tyler’s experience also includes marketing, advertising, strategic communications, and management. He is skilled in quantitative and qualitative market research to support strategic business planning initiatives around physician integration, service line planning, market and ambulatory expansion, and post-acute services development.
Prior to joining Navvis & Company, Tyler was a Senior Manager of market research with Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., a premier international public relations agency, where he developed primary research programs and opinion polling strategies for Fortune 500 clients in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, bioengineering, retail, energy, and the Internet.
Tyler holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Email Tyler: toleksy@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Tyler: 636-536-9443
Feroz Siddiqui - Senior Finanical Analyst
Feroz Siddiqui provides financial expertise to support Navvis & Company’s strategy engagements with health systems, hospitals and physician groups nationwide.
Previously, he worked with Deloitte & Touche LLP (Orlando FL) in Audit and Enterprise Risk Services, leading and overseeing the day to day operations of audit engagements. He has worked with audit clients in an array of industries with an emphasis in healthcare, and is experienced with publicly traded, privately held, governmental and not-for-profit clients. Prior to Deloitte, he was employed by American Express Bank in Treasury and Financial Market Services.
Feroz graduated from the Fisher School of Accounting at the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Masters of Accountancy.
Email Feroz: fsiddiqui@navvisandcompany.com
Call Feroz: 407-571-1242
John Waters – Senior Financial Analyst
John Waters brings to Navvis & Company more than ten years of experience in various operational and financial management positions within the healthcare industry. He is instrumental in the financial analysis of service lines and the development of financial projections reflecting the strategies Navvis develops with its clients. He has worked with a variety of physician practices for the purposes of modeling and projecting financial performance.
Prior to joining Navvis, John worked for the Managed Care Department of a national health care system as a Senior Analyst. In this role, John assisted in the implementation of a centralized department responsible for financial analysis of payer performance at facilities around the country. Prior to that, John held management and administrative positions in rehabilitation and psychiatry. He has worked in various capacities, and has been instrumental in the implementation of strategic objectives at the operational level. In his administrative duties for one of the largest private psychiatric hospitals in Central Florida, he oversaw all parts of daily operations, and was successful in improving a variety of performance standards, including reducing length of stay and streamlining the admissions process.
John received his bachelor of arts from the University of Central Florida and his master of business administration from the University of Phoenix.
Email John: jwaters@navvisandcompany.com
Phone John: 407-571-1242
Bart Shults – Manager of Facility Development
Bart leads the Navvis & Company Property Management division. His wealth of practical experience in real estate and construction greatly enhances his work on every project.
Before joining Navvis & Company, Bart worked as a property management consultant and managed his own construction company. He has worked with the Environmental Protection Agency in the State of Illinois for the past twenty-five years and the Waste Water Association of Illinois.
Email Bart: bshults@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Bart: 636-536-9443
Kari Skipper Foster – Marketing Manager
Kari Skipper Foster serves as marketing manager for Navvis & Company.
Kari brings to Navvis & Company 18 years of experience as a public safety consultant working with municipal and public housing police departments, fire and EMS departments and emergency communications agencies across the country, assessing operational and staffing efficiencies, highlighting best practices and opportunities for improvement. Kari has also worked as a support coordinator for organ and tissue donor families.
Kari earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education from James Madison University.
Email Kari: kfoster@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Kari: 757-640-8515
Jody Corrigan – Marketing Associate
Jody oversees the development and management of the firm’s online client resource center and provides assistance to clients seeking access to information, research and other educational materials to support planning projects as well as organizational learning. She specializes in database management, webcast production, email marketing, internet tool access and development, and visual communication. Jody also designs, promotes and executes events for the firm including in-person sessions for the Innovator’s Studio and educational client webinars.
Jody brings to this position nearly six years of experience in customer service and sales management support. Prior to joining Navvis & Company she worked for American Woodmark Corporation in a number of roles, most recently as an inside sales representative. She held positions as marketing administrator, sales analyst and team leader for customer service, also at American Woodmark.
Jody is a recent graduate of Lord Fairfax Community College where she obtained an associate’s degree in art and science with a fine arts specialization. She is currently working toward a bachelor of fines arts with a graphic design specialization at James Madison University.
Email Jody: jcorrigan@navvisandcompany.com
Phone Jody: 757-640-8515
