Healthcare strategy & advisory

Most strategy
work has a
structural flaw.
We build around it.

The hard part isn't the strategy. It's that most organizations aren't designed toward it — and by the time implementation starts, the operating model is an afterthought. Corvyn integrates strategy and organizational transformation from the first conversation.

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Senior advisors

From day one, every engagement

National scope

Local knowledge

Steadfast commitment

To results

The problem

Strategy and organizational transformation are treated as two different engagements. That's the problem.

Most strategy work has a structural flaw: it treats the operating model as what you figure out later. Strategy happens in one room, organizational design in another, and implementation becomes the next team's problem. By the time execution starts, the organization wasn't built toward the strategy. Change becomes reactive, slow, and expensive.

We don't treat the operating model as what you figure out later. We treat it as the question strategy is trying to answer.

Healthcare makes this gap critical. Four forces are hitting health systems on the same planning horizon: demand compression from GLP-1s and advanced therapeutics, site and revenue model disruption, AI-driven operating model change, and competitive restructuring. Organizations addressing these in separate workstreams, on separate timelines, are already behind.

Our approach

Strategy and transformation.
One question.

Every Corvyn engagement begins by asking two things simultaneously: where does this organization need to go, and what does it need to look like to get there? We treat strategy and organizational transformation as one integrated question — not two sequential engagements separated by a handoff that was never designed to work.

Transformation decisions are made deliberately, sequenced to the strategic plan, and tied to measurable progress. We stay through execution because the operating model isn't what you figure out after the strategy is done. It's what the strategy is trying to answer.

Why Corvyn

Built differently.
On purpose.

We designed Corvyn as an antidote to the consulting model that produces great-looking work and mediocre outcomes. Every decision about how we operate is deliberate.

Senior from day one

You work directly with experienced senior advisors. No managing the manage. No associate learning curves on your engagement.

Built to move

No internal bureaucracy. No approval chains. We operate at the pace your situation demands — not the pace a staffing model allows.

Accelerated insights

We've built an AI-enabled platform that compresses the time from question to insight — so engagements move faster, analysis goes deeper, and leadership teams spend less time waiting and more time deciding.

Integrated by design

We treat strategy and organizational transformation as one question from the first conversation. The operating model isn't what you figure out after the strategy is done. It's what the strategy is trying to answer.

Bold yet pragmatic

We push clients toward the ambitious answer — and then we pressure-test it against reality. A strategy is only as good as your ability to execute it, and we never lose sight of that. Big thinking, grounded in what it actually takes to deliver.

Services

We work where the stakes are highest — across four practice areas, each led by senior advisors with direct sector experience.

Engagements range from focused advisory sprints to multi-year strategic partnerships. We work the way the situation calls for — not the way a standard SOW dictates.

Enterprise strategy & transformation

Strategic planning, competitive repositioning, growth strategy, and large-scale transformation for health systems and IDNs. We stay through the execution.

Digital transformation

From digital strategy and portfolio prioritization to operating model design and program delivery. We know where these efforts stall — and how to keep them moving.

Go-to-market & commercialization

Market entry strategy, channel development, and commercial planning for digital health companies and healthcare services organizations at any stage.

M&A & private equity advisory

Strategic and commercial diligence, investment thesis development, and value creation planning for PE firms and health systems evaluating transactions.

Who we work with

Leaders facing decisions that actually matter.

The common thread isn't industry segment. It's consequence. Our clients are making decisions where being wrong is costly — and where clarity and speed are competitive advantages.

Health system C-suite Academic medical centers PE deal teams Investor-backed leadership Digital health founders Integrated delivery networks Healthcare services companies Pre-Series A through Series C

If the stakes are high and the answer isn't obvious, that's where we do our best work.

High-consequence strategic decisions with enterprise-wide implications
Transformations that have stalled under the weight of complexity
Transactions requiring clear-eyed diligence and honest thesis validation
Go-to-market moments where speed and precision are both non-negotiable
Leaders who've outgrown what their current advisors are willing to say

Team

We exist because most advisory relationships are transactional. The best ones aren't.

Corvyn was founded on a straightforward belief: the most valuable thing a strategic advisor can do is see clearly and tell the truth — even when it challenges the direction a client has already committed to.

We work with a deliberately select number of clients at any given time. Not because of capacity — because deep advisory relationships require genuine attention. When you work with Corvyn, you're not one of fifty accounts.

The name Corvyn is drawn from the raven — a symbol of intelligence, perception, and the willingness to see what others overlook.

Ryan Bertram

Founder & Managing Partner

Background

Nearly 20 years advising health systems, academic medical centers, PE firms, and digital health companies across strategy, transformation, and growth.

Education

MBA, Honors — Chicago Booth MS & BS Biomedical Engineering — Northwestern

Based in

Chicago, IL

Get in touch

Let's talk about what you're navigating.

Our best client relationships often started with a conversation that wasn't sure where it was going. If something's on your mind — a decision, a challenge, a direction you're not certain about — that's enough to start.

ryan@corvynadvisors.com →

Email ryan@corvynadvisors.com

Web corvynadvisors.com

Location Chicago, IL — National practice

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Most strategywork has astructural flaw.We build around it.

Strategy and organizational transformation are treated as two different engagements. That's the problem.

Strategy and transformation.One question.

Built differently.On purpose.