David J. Dowling, Founder and Managing Principal

Dave is known for helping his clients to unlock and combine the collective knowledge and gut of their leadership teams to rapidly create a shared view on tough issues. He has held executive leadership roles in Health Care, Financial Services and Technology businesses where he led numerous business and organizational strategy initiatives. He has held senior roles in strategy, business development, and human resources.

Organizations that have benefited through collaboration with Dave over the past decade include Ascension Health, Fidelity, HCA, Pfizer, Anthem, SXC Health Solutions, Health Care Service Corporation(the parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, TX and NM),and numerous early to mid-stage venture-backed healthcare and technology companies.

His varied experiences as a consultant and an executive leading strategy, large enterprise programs and human capital functions has equipped him with a unique ability to offer Boards and senior leaders incisive and practical advice that has served to accelerate the realization of solutions to complex business, talent team and organizational issues.  As a result, Dave has the unique ability to see your issues/opportunities as both an advisor, as well as someone who has lived with the consequences of strategic decisions.

Dave has a reputation for providing outstanding business coaching and advice to executives. His passion for teaching, ability to connect with individuals at all levels, as well as his unique gift of quickly understanding people and processes, ensures that there is no issue that is too complicated for him to decipher. He contributes by closing the gaps between strategy and the reality of organizations.

Over the years, Dave had developed and maintained a broad and exceptionally deep network of diverse and highly experienced consultants and advisors whose expertise can be leveraged to meet your needs.

Dave lives in Dana Point, CA with his wife and their three rescue dogs. He is active in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County.

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What Makes Us Different

We provide flexible, affordable, responsive and high-value business advice.

We work in a highly collaborative and direct manner that helps leaders to see what it will take to optimize performance. In doing so we will renew passion excellence across your team, as well as build organizational insight and define actions required to ensure ongoing alignment management systems, structures and talent with strategy. We will leave you with the plans, process, skills and tools needed.

We are a boutique firm that brings a tailored approach. We are client-centered, delivering quality and service at a cost that is far less than larger consulting organizations. It is our distinct operating model that allows us to develop and maintain long-term trust-based relationships.