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Start with the real situation
Understand the history, constraints, and people involved before prescribing a method.
About Michael Thom
Experience across the organizational and technical sides of the work.
Through Bearing Advisory, I work directly with leaders and teams facing operational, technology, product, and project challenges that need experienced attention.
A connected perspective
Complicated work rarely stays inside one discipline.
A technology decision changes a workflow. A project problem exposes unclear ownership. A product roadmap depends on operational realities. Useful advice has to account for those connections.
My experience spans operational leadership, healthcare consulting, technology and vendor management, digital product ownership, workflow and process design, cross-functional project leadership, and executive communication.
Relevant experience
- Operational leadership
- Healthcare consulting
- Technology and vendor management
- Digital product ownership
- Workflow and process design
- Cross-functional project leadership
- Executive communication
Why Bearing Advisory exists
Senior attention, applied directly.
Organizations sometimes need experienced leadership around a consequential piece of work without adding a full-time role or hiring a large consulting team. Bearing Advisory provides that support in a focused, practical form.
I stay close to the work, communicate clearly with the people responsible for it, and leave behind decisions, plans, and artifacts the organization can continue to use.
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Make decisions explicit
Clarify ownership, tradeoffs, and the choices required to keep the work moving.
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Keep the work usable
Favor practical plans and clear artifacts over unnecessary process or presentation.
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Build the client’s capability
Leave the organization better equipped to continue rather than dependent on outside support.
Part of Bearing Group
A focused practice within a broader body of work.
Bearing Advisory is the client-facing advisory practice of Bearing Group. It is a d/b/a of Bearing Group LLC.
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Work directly with Michael.
If your organization is working through a consequential project, decision, product, or operational challenge, a brief description is enough to begin.
Email Michaelmichael@bearinggroup.net