What we do

Five areas. One diagnostic lens.

Whether the challenge is a stalling transformation, an AI strategy that hasn't moved past pilot, or operational costs that won't stay controlled — we start by identifying the actual structural problem before recommending anything. Most engagements begin with a focused diagnostic.

Enterprise Transformation AI Strategy Operational Excellence Healthcare Advisory Fractional Executive
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Enterprise Transformation & Change Leadership

For organizations navigating high-stakes, cross-functional change. Successful transformation requires both sound strategy and disciplined execution across the human dimension — from problem framing through sustained adoption.

Transformation Strategy & Roadmap
A focused diagnostic and roadmap engagement that identifies root-cause inefficiencies, defines the future state, and sequences change into an executable plan. Deliverables include a prioritized initiative portfolio, executive alignment framework, governance recommendations, and a 90-day mobilization plan.
PMO Design, Launch & Maturation
Design, launch, or strengthen a program management office suited to the organization's scale and maturity. The work includes the operating model, governance, intake and prioritization, reporting, and staffing recommendations needed to create clear accountability and reliable execution. The offering can also assess and turn around an underperforming PMO.
Change Management & Adoption Programs
Change management is integrated into the transformation rather than treated as a separate communications workstream. Services include stakeholder analysis, communication strategy, training frameworks, resistance mitigation, and adoption measurement, with particular value for organizations whose previous change efforts have stalled.
Cost Structure Redesign
End-to-end analysis of cost drivers, organizational design, and operating practices to identify sustainable reductions while managing operational and workforce disruption. The approach is informed by experience leading large-scale cost and operational redesign initiatives with nine-figure impact.
Representative experience

Directed a $900M cost structure redesign across a large integrated health system.

Launched and scaled multiple enterprise PMOs from inception across a 300,000-employee organization.

Led ACA implementation for the most-affected commercial line of business — on time, in compliance, with revenue growth.

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AI Strategy & Digital Transformation

For organizations moving from AI curiosity to AI capability. The organizations that win with AI invest as much in organizational readiness as in the technology itself — building the strategy, governance, and human infrastructure to unlock real value.

AI Business Readiness Assessment
A structured assessment of AI readiness across leadership alignment, data infrastructure, process maturity, workforce capability, risk, and governance. Produces a prioritized gap analysis, a portfolio of high-value use cases, and an actionable roadmap distinguishing what to pursue now from what requires foundational work.
AI Program Design & Oversight
Design and strategic oversight of enterprise AI programs—from use-case prioritization through pilot, scale, and adoption. The work focuses on aligning business outcomes, governance, operational readiness, and adoption for agentic AI, workflow automation, and predictive analytics initiatives.
Digital Transformation Roadmap
Strategy development for technology-enabled business transformation. Includes current-state process and systems assessment, future-state vision, vendor evaluation frameworks, and phased implementation sequencing. Independent of platform and vendor.
Technology Vendor Evaluation & Selection
Independent advisory support for evaluating and selecting enterprise platforms, including EHR, HCM, ITSM, marketing technology, and workforce management systems. Services may include requirements definition, vendor scoring frameworks, reference-check planning, and business input to contract evaluation in coordination with the client's legal and procurement teams.
Human-Centered Design Integration
Advisory services to embed human-centered design principles into technology programs — ensuring solutions are adopted, not just deployed. Includes user research strategy, workflow co-design, and product management methodology adoption.
Representative experience

Co-led an enterprise-wide AI business readiness program aligning business, IT, and applied intelligence functions at a 300,000-employee organization.

Delivered workflow automation, machine-learning, predictive-analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities that unified cross-functional workforce data, improved visibility into labor-cost drivers, and supported proactive management of unbudgeted expense.

Led business strategy, readiness, product, portfolio, and change work across enterprise platform implementations and transformations involving Epic, ServiceNow, Oracle, Adobe Experience Manager, and related technologies.

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Operational Excellence & Process Optimization

For organizations where fragmented processes, disconnected data, or operating complexity are constraining performance. Sustained operational improvement depends on aligning process redesign, technology, data, and people. We identify where complexity drives cost, where workflows fail at scale, and where automation or analytics can improve efficiency, visibility, and decision-making.

End-to-End Process Analysis & Redesign
Deep-dive process analysis to identify non-value-added work, duplicated functions, and structural inefficiencies. Deliverables include process maps, root-cause analysis, redesigned workflows, and a phased implementation plan.
Workflow Automation Strategy
Assessment of automation opportunity across operational workflows, prioritized by ROI and implementation feasibility. Includes tool selection guidance (Power Automate, ServiceNow, RPA platforms, AI-native tools), pilot design, and scale planning.
Business Intelligence & Analytics Platform Strategy
Strategy and oversight for developing integrated operational data platforms — connecting workforce, financial, operational, and customer data into actionable business intelligence. Includes data source identification, platform design, and governance framework.
High-Reliability Operations Consulting
Application of high-reliability principles to operational environments where variability, error, or inconsistency create risk. Particularly applicable to healthcare, staffing-intensive operations, and 24/7 service environments.
Business Readiness Program Design
Custom-designed business readiness methodologies for organizations approaching major operational change — system cutovers, mergers, consolidations, or rapid scale-up. Includes readiness criteria, go/no-go frameworks, and contingency planning.
Representative experience

Consolidated 40+ local staffing operations into a single high-performing service center — improving satisfaction and reducing costs by more than $200M annually.

Developed a centralized business intelligence platform unifying telephony, scheduling, workforce, and HR data for a 23-hospital system.

Implemented the first non-IT use of ServiceNow within Kaiser Permanente to manage central work intake, tracking, and resolution.

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Healthcare Industry Advisory

For health systems, health plans, and integrated delivery networks. Healthcare transformation rewards deep insider knowledge — 25 years leading programs across health plan, hospital, and clinical operations inside the nation's largest value-based care organization.

Value-Based Care Operations
Advisory support for organizations building or optimizing value-based care operational models — including care coordination workflows, population health program infrastructure, and performance measurement frameworks.
Health Plan Systems & Operations
Operational strategy and process optimization for health plan functions: membership, benefits administration, claims, sales, marketing operations, and compliance. Includes experience with regulatory change implementation across state and federal mandates.
Hospital & Clinical Operations
Operational redesign and strategic advisory for hospital operations — staffing, patient throughput, capacity planning, and cross-department workflow alignment. Experienced in post-pandemic recovery and high-census surge operations.
Workforce & Staffing Strategy
End-to-end staffing operations consulting for health systems: strategic workforce planning, staffing technology selection and implementation, scheduling operations transformation, and labor cost optimization.
Integrated System Optimization
Advisory for health systems operating across health plan, hospital, and clinical services — identifying interdependencies, eliminating duplicated effort, and aligning operations across organizational boundaries.
Representative experience

Executed COVID-19 surge planning: launched KP's first inter-hospital patient transfer service and expanded bed capacity from 2,700 to 5,800 with full staffing and resource coverage.

Directed recruitment of 3,000+ nurses in 90 days during peak post-pandemic shortage, reducing travel nurse costs approximately $20M/month.

Managed ACA implementation for the most-affected commercial line of business — achieving full compliance and capturing market disruption as revenue opportunity.

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Fractional Executive & Strategic Advisory

For organizations that need experienced senior leadership on a flexible basis. Whether you need an accountable executive for an ongoing program or on-call strategic judgment, these models are designed around how real transformation decisions get made.

Fractional Chief Transformation Officer
Ongoing strategic and operational leadership for enterprise transformation programs on a part-time basis. This model is appropriate for organizations that need an accountable executive to establish governance, align sponsors, direct delivery teams, monitor outcomes, and build the internal capability required to sustain a transformation function.
Strategic Advisory Retainer
A monthly retained relationship providing scheduled strategic counsel and responsive support for major decisions, board preparation, initiative reviews, and emerging transformation risks. Best suited for organizations needing senior judgment without day-to-day program leadership.
Executive Coaching for Operational Leaders
One-on-one coaching for senior leaders stepping into large-scale operational or transformation roles. Grounded in practitioner experience across enterprise transformation — not theory.
Board & Leadership Advisory
Preparation and advisory support for boards and executive leadership teams facing major transformation decisions: technology investments, operating model changes, workforce restructuring, or significant market shifts.
Why fractional works

You work directly with Geneva Garske on every engagement — not a junior team with periodic senior check-ins.

Engagements are structured around defined outcomes and baseline measures from day one. If we can't measure it, we don't claim it.

For projects requiring additional capacity, we source and manage qualified associates — without adding overhead to your engagement.

How we engage

Structured around your situation, not a standard retainer.

Ready to get the diagnosis right?

Most engagements start with a focused conversation — no pitch, no proposal. Just a direct look at what's driving the problem and what it would take to fix it.

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