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About Woodland Strategic Advisors
Our Story
Founded by Kristen Schultz, Woodland Strategic Advisors leverages two decades of experience in strategy consulting, healthcare operations, and leadership development. Kristen has worked in both the private and non-profit sectors, driving impactful change across the healthcare ecosystem. With a track record of guiding executive teams and boards, and leading large teams, she has helped organizations navigate challenges and seize opportunities for innovation and growth.
Woodland Strategic Advisors is deeply committed to helping clients unlock their full potential through tailored, strategic insights and guidance. With every partnership, we are enthusiastic about making lasting impact and supporting clients to achieve their missions.
Services from Woodland Strategic Advisors
Strategic Planning & Advisory
Comprehensive strategy development to help your organization define long-term goals, identify key challenges and create actionable plans. Woodland Strategic Advisors supports the planning process from discovery, through stakeholder engagement and alignment, plan documentation, to guidance on strategy activation, ideal operating model and change management.
Strategic Facilitation
Expert facilitation of workshops, retreats and planning sessions to drive collaborative decision making and alignment at your organization. Woodland Strategic Advisors designs and leads structured, engaging workshops tailored to your organization's needs and objectives, bringing together stakeholders for visioning, strategic planning or major decision making.
Deep-Dive Strategic Projects
In-depth, customized projects that address specific, high-stakes organizational challenges such as potential mergers and acquisitions (M&A), organizational restructuring, or financial sustainability redesign. Woodland Strategic Advisors conducts thorough analysis and provides tailored recommendations for critical business decisions, focused on long-term value creation and organizational health.
Capacity Building for Leaders
Empowering leaders and teams to effectively analyze business and market data, generate insights and apply financial acumen to strategic decisions. Woodland Strategic Advisors can build your teams' analytical and communication capabilities, providing them with training, mentorship and frameworks to distill information into clear, concise insights and presentations that will resonate with executives, board members and other key stakeholders.
Fractional Chief Strategy Officer
Providing part-time, high-impact executive leadership to guide organizations through critical phases of growth, transformation or strategic decision-making. As a Fractional CSO, Kristen can serve as an embedded member of your executive team on a flexible, part-time basis to bring deep strategic expertise without the full-time commitment of a permanent CSO.