Ideas &
Dispatches

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June 2026

Leadership · Organizational Psychology

I Wrote a Paper on Corporate Psychopaths. Then I Went to Work.

A paper I wrote during my master's program quietly accumulated nearly 1,600 readers. I didn't promote it. Then I spent fifteen years watching the theory play out in real time.

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January 2026

Payer Strategy

Seven Payer Deals in One Year: What Actually Moves the Needle

After closing seven payer contracts in 2024, I've identified the three factors that separate deals that close from deals that stall. It's not what most consultants tell you.

003

December 2025

Healthcare Entrepreneurship

The Founder's Trap: When Your Startup Becomes Your Identity

Building Carenodes taught me that the hardest part of entrepreneurship isn't the product or the market — it's knowing when you're the problem.

004

November 2025

Social Determinants

Housing Is a Clinical Intervention. It's Time We Treated It That Way.

Eighty percent of health outcomes are determined outside the clinic. The data on housing instability and readmission rates is unambiguous — so why are health systems still treating SDOH as a nice-to-have?

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October 2025

Value-Based Care

The Payer-Provider Relationship Is Broken. Here's How to Fix It.

After years on both sides of the negotiating table, I've come to believe the adversarial dynamic between payers and providers is a choice — not an inevitability.

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September 2025

Leadership

What 50 Podcast Episodes Taught Me About Listening

Hosting the VBCA Podcast changed how I think about strategy. The best healthcare leaders I've interviewed share one trait that has nothing to do with intelligence.