Mat Collins is a healthcare strategy and operations executive specializing in strategy, growth, operational transformation, and strategic execution. He is the Founder, Principal of the firm, serving as Fractional Chief Strategy Officer and Advisory capacities for Collins Fractional Leadership, LLC. He provides fractional executive and advisory support to healthcare organizations navigating growth, performance pressure, integration, transformation, and leadership capacity constraints.

Mat’s background spans healthcare organizations ranging from approximately $100M to $2.3B+ in annual revenue, including health systems, physician enterprises, home-based care organizations, post-acute providers, ambulatory networks, and statewide community-based care models. His experience includes enterprise strategy, service line growth, referral development, network integrity, operations, business development, partnerships/JVs/M&A, operational turnaround, margin improvement, digital transformation, and execution leadership.

Across his career, Mat’s leadership scope has included ~$30M in direct P&L accountability, 16 service lines, 11 hospitals, six clinics, statewide 16-county operations, and leadership reach across senior leaders, providers, clinicians, and large multi-location operational teams. His work has contributed to significant hospice census growth, surgical case volume growth, rapid service-line and enterprise margin recovery from negative to positive performance, improved network integrity, integration of multi-site service lines, successful joint ventures/M &A transactions, and stronger referral and partnership strategy across complex healthcare markets.

Prior to launching Collins Fractional Leadership, Mat held senior strategy, business development, and operations roles across Northern Light Health, Central Maine Healthcare, and statewide home-based care organizations. His work has focused on margin recovery, culture transformation, growth acceleration, and execution discipline across complex healthcare environments. He has led underperforming service lines through turnaround, integrated multi-site care delivery models, strengthened referral and network integrity, advanced joint venture and acquisition strategy, and built operating review structures that improve executive visibility, accountability, and performance.

Mat also serves as an Adjunct Instructor and Curriculum Designer for the Healthcare Leadership MBA Program at the University of New England. He serves on the Board of Directors at the University of Maine at Augusta, with past service on the Maine Council on Aging Board of Directors, The National Alliance of Care at Home Advisory Council, and the National Emerging Models and Clinical Innovation Committee. He was named a MaineBiz 40 Under 40 honoree and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Through Collins Fractional Leadership, Consulting, and Advisory Mat supports healthcare organizations, consulting firms, advisory partners, and investor-backed healthcare groups that need senior strategy and execution capacity but may not need, or may not be ready for, a full-time executive hire.

Outside of work, Mat enjoys time outdoors, reading, walking his dogs (Luna & Zeus), boat restoration, and woodworking.