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Strategic Consulting to Empower Growth and Drive Change

Aoife’s strategic consulting services are designed to empower organizations to navigate complexities and drive transformational change by focusing on leadership development, conflict resolution, and tailored strategies that align with your organization’s unique goals . With a focus on strategic insight and practical execution, Aoife partners with clients to overcome complex transitions and organizational changes. Whether guiding clients through mergers and acquisitions, optimizing governance structures, driving performance improvement, and inspiring and motivating teams, Aoife’s consulting approach helps organizations thrive in dynamic environments.

Strategic Consulting to Empower Growth and Drive Change

Aoife’s strategic consulting services are designed to empower organizations to navigate complexities and drive transformational change by focusing on leadership development, conflict resolution, and tailored strategies that align with your organization’s unique goals . With a focus on strategic insight and practical execution, Aoife partners with clients to overcome complex transitions and organizational changes. Whether guiding clients through mergers and acquisitions, optimizing governance structures, driving performance improvement, and inspiring and motivating teams, Aoife’s consulting approach helps organizations thrive in dynamic environments.

Core Challenges Our Clients Overcome

  • Aligning Diverse Stakeholder Interests: Struggling to unify competing priorities and align disparate teams toward shared goals in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

  • Driving Success for Complex Initiatives: Navigating uncertainty, competing demands, and organizational silos while executing high-stakes, large-scale projects.

  • Adapting to Dynamic Environments: Facing challenges in navigating ever-changing organizational structures, cultures, and external pressures.

  • Delivering Excellence Under Pressure: Meeting tight deadlines and balancing high expectations while maintaining quality and attention to detail.

  • Resistance to Change: Managing cultural inertia, resistance to new ideas, and entrenched behaviors that hinder innovation and progress.

  • Communicating and Simplifying Complex Issues: Struggling to synthesize intricate problems into clear, actionable insights for leadership and teams.

How We Solve These Challenges

  • Stakeholder Alignment: Aoife excels at bringing diverse groups together, fostering collaboration, and creating consensus around shared objectives.

  • Strategic Planning and Execution: With a unique blend of systems thinking and creative problem-solving, Aoife guides organizations through the entire lifecycle of initiatives—from strategy development to execution.

  • Navigating Complexity: Drawing on her extensive healthcare leadership experience, Aoife helps organizations adapt and thrive in dynamic environments by aligning teams and resources effectively.

  • Building Trust and Rapport: Aoife’s approachable, empathetic style quickly establishes trust, enabling her to identify and address core issues while fostering a culture of accountability.

  • Challenging Thinking and Driving Change: By skillfully challenging assumptions and resistance, Aoife inspires clients to see the potential for growth and commit to meaningful change.

  • Clear Communication and Insights: Aoife translates complex data and challenges into digestible, actionable solutions, empowering leaders to make informed decisions.

  • Supportive, Action-Oriented Guidance: Aoife’s persistent yet supportive approach helps organizations identify gaps, overcome barriers, and implement sustainable improvements.

Aoife’s consulting approach is built on a foundation of strategic insight, adaptability, and a commitment to delivering tangible, lasting results. She partners with clients to overcome obstacles, maximize opportunities, and create pathways for success in even the most challenging organizational contexts.

FAQs

What kind of clients do you work with?2025-01-08T21:12:08+00:00

I work with clients in a variety of industries, especially healthcare. I partner with C-suite executives in healthcare organizations and physicians, as well as VPs and other senior leaders to drive their vision, strategy, and organizational initiatives, especially in high-stakes environments where influencing change, aligning teams, and navigating complex, multi-stakeholder situations are key.

What is your approach to consulting?2025-01-08T21:12:44+00:00

I believe in a collaborative and results-oriented approach. I work closely with my clients to understand their unique needs and develop customized solutions that address their specific challenges. I am an advocate for data-driven decision making and utilize a variety of tools and techniques to ensure the success of our engagements

What makes you different from other consultants?2025-01-08T21:13:25+00:00

We provide a rare combination of strategic insight, human-centered coaching and conflict mediation to navigate complexity, drive lasting change, and enable teams and organizations to thrive . With deep expertise in healthcare transformation, leadership development, and change management, we bring a blend of strategic vision and hands-on operational skill, ensuring that the strategies developed are not only innovative but also practical and executable.

This unique blend of strategic foresight and practical implementation with hands-on operational skill sets her apart, allowing her to partner with clients at every stage—from high-level planning to in-depth execution, fostering both immediate and lasting success.

How do you ensure results?2025-01-08T21:15:05+00:00

We have an extensive track record of projects that achieve tremendous results, each born out of solutions customized for the client. See our Case Studies for examples of how we have helped organizations like yours.

How do you determine length and fees for a consulting engagement?2025-01-08T21:16:12+00:00

The length and fees are determined by scope of the project, the level of expertise required, and the expected duration of the engagement. We can discuss your specific needs and provide a customized fee proposal. Click here to schedule an initial free consultation.

What do you expect from your clients?2025-01-08T21:16:43+00:00

To partner and collaborate with me and be open to change.

How do I get started?2025-01-08T21:17:39+00:00

Please reach out and connect with me. We’ll schedule an initial consultation to discuss your needs and determine the best approach.

Case Studies

Building a Roadmap for Growth and Value-Based Care: A Health Plan’s Success Story

Challenge SCC partnered with the CEO of a health plan organization to spearhead the development and execution of a comprehensive portfolio of strategic initiatives. This involved defining and prioritizing initiatives, overseeing implementation, managing interdependencies, establishing robust governance structures, [...]

See What Clients Are Saying

We engaged Saoirse Consulting in several initiatives over the years related to strategy and growth including mergers and acquisitions, affiliations and integration planning, strategic planning retreats, clinical program strategic plan development, and oversight of enrollment and other regulatory work. Aoife’s ability to navigate a large and ever-changing organization to align disparate teams around common goals is impressive. She diplomatically addresses political challenges with hospital leaders, physicians and other key stakeholders in engagements. Aoife is a multi talent consultant and we continue to rely on her to deliver excellence often within tight deadlines with high profile clients. She’s an exceptional consultant and leader of programs that require development, growth and results.

David Mast, CEO Medical Foundations | Providence Health & Services

Aoife was able to lead with confidence, expertise, and engagement of the numerous stakeholders. She quickly built trust, which was impressive, assessed and developed recommendations, created an execution plan and managed implementation.

Martin Zerr, CAO | Kaiser Permanente® Northwest

Aoife has a unique personal style where she can quickly build rapport and trust with her clients, gather, and assimilate information that is useful in identifying core issues.She utilizes her extensive experience in healthcare consulting/leadership to inform strategic decision making and find solutions that will allow a client to be successful. Aoife’s approach as both a partner and advocate immediately put us at ease.

I appreciated her expertise, her affirmation of the positive elements of the work we were doing, and her supportive, yet persistent “call to action” approach in identifying gaps, making recommendations, challenging thinking in a respectful way, addressing resistance, and moving the collective organization forward for improvement.

Debra Helterline Koehn, Senior Director, Provider Contracting and Contract Compliance | Kaiser Permanente® Northwest

Aoife was the glue that held our project together. I had the pleasure of working with her on a complex strategic affiliation. I was immediately impressed with her ability to distill a complicated structure and set of requirements and easily produce a path to success for our team. Aoife has the rare gift of being able to lead a group towards a goal while maintaining a diplomatic and good-natured approach that builds team unity. I witnessed first-hand her skill in being able to adapt and structure creative solutions when we had changes in scope or delays. I’ve since requested Aoife’s assistance with other strategic partnerships and have never been disappointed with her ability to build the right team, set the correct priorities, and ultimately lead us to success.

Lisa M. Flashner and Matt Abney, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Director, Special Projects | Ellison Institute

Saoirse Consulting and Coaching exceeded my expectations in several areas. One standout was the depth of your follow-up support. Even after the initial consulting phase, you always checked in, ensuring that the changes were producing the desired results and offering additional advice when needed.At the start I felt a mix of curiosity and uncertainty, as we were tackling some longstanding issues. As we began working together, those feelings quickly shifted to confidence. Your team’s clear communication, expertise, and hands-on support made me feel reassured that we were on the right track. Over time, I felt increasingly empowered as we started seeing tangible improvements in our operations. By the end of the process, I was not only satisfied with the results but also confident in our ability to maintain and build upon the changes moving forward.

Clinical Director and PA-C, Ellison Institute
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