The Assessment

A targeted executive assessment designed to clarify what matters, what is blocking progress, and what should move next.

Collins Fractional Leadership offers introductory Strategy, Growth, and Performance Assessment for healthcare organizations looking for a clearer view of current performance, root causes of challenges, market threats, risks, and opportunities, service-line performance review, referral dynamics, partnership options, execution priorities, and recommended paths forward.

The assessment is designed to help leaders clarify where to grow, what to fix, what to stop, what to partner around, and which priorities should move first over the next 90–180 days. It can be used as a standalone advisory engagement or as the first step toward a fractional leadership or advisory retainer.

Assessment fees may be applied toward a fractional leadership or advisory retainer of three months or longer.

Best for Organizations That Need to:

• Not hitting revenue, growth, volume, referral, or margin targets

• Managing an underperforming service line, location, program, or operating unit

• Needing to accelerate growth, performance improvement, or strategic execution without waiting for a full-time executive hire

• Needing to diversify services, assess a new venture, launch a new program, or evaluate an expansion opportunity

• Experiencing referral leakage, access constraints, weak conversion, or inconsistent patient/client retention

• Struggling to move change initiatives forward quickly enough because leaders and teams are already stretched

• Facing retention, culture, leadership alignment, or accountability challenges that are slowing performance improvement

• Seeking an outside, unbiased executive perspective on performance challenges, growth opportunities, or execution barriers

• Considering partnerships, JVs, affiliations, acquisitions, market expansion, or new service-line development

• Looking for a practical 30–90 day action plan that connects strategy, operations, growth, financial discipline, and accountability

Deliverables

• Leadership intake and discovery session with key stakeholders

• Review of available market, service-line, referral, financial, operational, and performance data

• Current-state assessment of growth, performance, access, referral dynamics, market position, and execution barriers

• Identification of root causes, performance gaps, growth constraints, and areas of opportunity

• Opportunity and risk summary, including near-term priorities and longer-term strategic considerations

• Prioritized recommendation set with practical actions, sequencing, and leadership implications

• 30–90 day execution roadmap with recommended next steps, accountability areas, and decision points

• Executive summary suitable for leadership, board, ownership, or investor discussion

• Optional working session to review findings and align on next steps

• Optional transition into fractional leadership, advisory support, implementation leadership, or a deeper service-line / enterprise engagement

Pricing

Introductory assessments begin at $2,000 for a focused service-line or strategy, growth, and performance review and $3,500 for a broader enterprise or multi-location assessment. Assessment fees may be applied toward a fractional leadership or advisory retainer of three months or longer.