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Healthcare Advisor · Speaker · Serial Entrepreneur

Over twenty years in healthcare.
Clinician by degree. Entrepreneur
by choice. Advisor by experience.

The advisor who has actually done the work. I came up through high-stakes clinical rooms in critical care and anesthesia, ran anesthesia operations as a vice president through the pandemic, and have spent more than a decade advising on healthcare technology integrations, operations and complex programs. Patient and medical advocacy runs through all of it. Alongside that: my own companies, real estate investments, medical, perimenopause, and burnout advocacy work, and executive and operational advisory, because healthcare does not stop at the hospital door.

Christina Stevens, healthcare leadership advisor and speaker
20+
Years in healthcare: RN, CRNA, VP, Advisory
13+
Years as a nurse anesthetist
12+
Years in healthcare IT consulting & advisory

Areas of Focus

Three strands,
one standard.

The work runs on three strands: healthcare and leadership advisory, operational, technical and project advisory, and an advocacy arm with education at its center. Different rooms, executive-level conversations, same discipline. Name the problem accurately first. Everything I do builds on that. That is where every engagement starts.

One

Healthcare & Leadership Advisory

Over twenty years in healthcare, from critical care nursing to clinical anesthesia to leadership while consulting in healthcare technology in the margins, turned into advisory work for leaders and leadership teams. Operational strategy, execution, and the decisions that help capable people perform at their highest level.

Two

Operational, Technical & Project Advisory

I have guided operations at scale for over a decade consulted in technology, and have run complex programs end to end. That means practical advisory on systems, delivery, and project management: the machine that success is built on.

Three

Advocacy, Education & Speaking

The work pointed at rooms beyond a boardroom: speaking, evidence-based perimenopause education, burnout prevention, and medical advisory. Real conversations and resources that give people accurate language for what they are actually dealing with. The same standards are upheld, no matter what. 

Christina Stevens, healthcare leadership advisor

Background

The lessons came first.
The titles came after.

Every one of those lessons still shows up in how I lead.

Critical care nurse, nurse anesthetist, healthcare leadership, healthcare IT consultant & advisor, M&A expert, real estate investor, owner, serial entrepreneur, and perimenopause, burnout and healthcare advocate. 

Over twenty years in nursing, including work as a Critical Care Nurse, a Travel Nurse, and a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist. High-stakes, highly regulated rooms where precision was not optional and emotional regulation was the price of admission. I learned to make confident decisions and to be the steady one when steadiness mattered most.

During Covid, I served as Vice President of CRNA Services, leading anesthesia operations through the worst stretch of the pandemic: budget cycles, retention crises, staffing under emergency conditions, and the acquisitions tables that reshape a clinical workforce. That is where I learned what structure and culture do to people, and what people are willing and unwilling to do, depending on how well they are treated and listened to.

Alongside the clinical and operational work, I have spent more than a decade in healthcare IT consulting and advisory, running complex programs and projects. I have also built businesses of my own, including Your Housing Helpers, a furnished housing company I founded and still operate as a growing real estate portfolio. Different industries, the same underlying question: Is the design of the system in place producing the outcomes we expect?

Today I advise on healthcare leadership, operations, and technical,\u00a0 and clinical work. I speak in rooms that want the honest version of the conversation. I alos advocate on the issues healthcare underserves: perimenopause and women's health being a major lapse in primary care and gynecologic healthcare education.\u00a0

What feeds the point of view

  • CLINICAL HEALTHCARE EXPERTISE
  • HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP ADVISORY 
  • Healthcare IT Consulting & Advisory
  • MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INVESTMENTS
  • WOMEN'S HEALTH

Work With Me

Four ways in, sized to the question in front of you.

Some of this work is with individuals, some with a whole organization. The right one is whichever matches what you're facing right now.

01

Executive & Operational Advisory

HEALTHCARE, LEADERSHIP, AND OPERATIONS

A thinking partner for senior leaders on strategy and execution: structure, staffing, operations, and the realignment that gets a plan back on track. Over twenty years in healthcare, from clinical practice to leadership and advisory roles, applied to your specific question.

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02

Technical & Project Advisory

Healthcare IT, programs and delivery

More than a decade in healthcare IT consulting and advisory, plus complex programs and project management: the engine that turns a strategy into results. I have built, run and rescued enough of them to know where they break.

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03

Speaking

KEYNOTES, PANELS, OWNERSHIP, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Talks on healthcare leadership, healthcare IT program delivery, and building a life outside the hospital: real estate, women's health, and healthcare advocacy. Delivered to conferences, associations, summits, podcasts, and leadership events.

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04

Advocacy & Education

PERIMENOPAUSE, BURNOUT PREVENTION, AND RESOURCES

The education and advocacy arm: Perimenopause resources for women, clinicians and workplaces, plus burnout prevention and resource advisory. Built on the same standard as everything else: Evidence-based research.

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What this work
refuses to do.

No hype, no scarcity, no twelve-week promises. A calm, intelligent partner is a different proposition than a guru, and it is the only one worth offering to people who have already read the books and run the playbooks.

  • 01

    Precision over Slogans

    Name the problem accurately before prescribing anything. Most failed interventions are answers to the wrong question.

  • 02

    Systems Thinking

    When capable people keep failing in the same place, the structure is the story.

  • 03

    Evidence-Based & EQ

    Evidence before assumption, data before guesswork, and honesty about where the evidence runs out.

  • 04

    Realignment, not Reinvention

    You rarely need to blow up what is in place. You need alignment and buy-in for the evolutions made within the system.

  • 05

    Calm as Competence

    No urgency, no scarcity, no guru. The work moves at the pace of a decision you can actually keep. 

Speaking

The honest version
of the conversation.

I speak to leadership events, conferences, professional associations, founder communities and organisations in the middle of change, including rooms ready for the conversations healthcare keeps postponing, from burnout to perimenopause at work. The talks give an audience accurate language for what they are dealing with, and a next step they can take on Monday without dismantling anything.

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Christina Stevens speaking on stage during her talk A Life By Design

Contact

One honest conversation is where this starts.