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Healthcare · AI · Pediatrics · Compassion · Leadership

Strategic advisory and coaching for a more human health landscape.

Herz Advisory LLC works at two connected edges of healthcare change: helping founders, investors, and health organizations think clearly about clinical value and emerging technology, while also supporting the reflective leadership, compassion, and identity work that sustain meaningful care.

Two connected branches

Herz Advisory brings clinical judgment, reflective leadership, and human-centered strategy to both technology-facing and compassion-centered work.

Strategic healthcare advisory

Clinical and strategic guidance for healthcare founders, investors, and organizations working on AI-enabled care, pediatrics, infectious disease, patient trust, and real-world adoption.

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(C&C)2: Coaching & Consulting for Compassion & Care

Coaching, seminars, offsites, and speaking engagements focused on leadership, meaning, physician identity, retirement transition, and bringing compassion back to medical care.

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Common thread

Whether the work is technology, leadership, or physician transition, the central question is the same: how do we build healthcare that is clinically sound, trustworthy, and deeply human?

Advisory — Strategic Healthcare Advisory

Clinical and strategic guidance for healthcare founders, investors, and organizations working at the intersection of care delivery, technology, and patient trust.

AI-first healthcare

Advising on patient-facing AI, primary care innovation, clinical safety, trust, positioning, and clinician adoption.

Pediatrics & infectious disease

Clinical perspective on pediatric care, respiratory infections, vaccine communication, infectious disease strategy, and family-centered health delivery.

Health system strategy

Guidance shaped by physician leadership experience, operational realism, culture, compassion, and sustainable care models.

Global health & equity

Advisory support for organizations working across health, dignity, community empowerment, and scalable interventions.

Clinical communication

Helping teams communicate medical information in ways that are accurate, understandable, and reassuring without overpromising.

Investor diligence

Clinician-informed review of healthcare concepts, market assumptions, product claims, adoption barriers, and clinical relevance.

How Herz Advisory can help

Engagements can be structured as targeted project work, investor diligence, founder advising, or ongoing strategic support.

  • Clarify product-market fit from a clinician and patient perspective.
  • Review medical claims, clinical positioning, and patient-facing language.
  • Pressure-test AI-enabled care models before they meet real workflows.
  • Translate between clinical evidence, business strategy, and user trust.
  • Support early-stage healthcare companies preparing for partnerships, pilots, or funding discussions.

(C&C)2 — Coaching & Consulting for Compassion & Care

A distinct advisory branch focused on the human side of healthcare: leadership, meaning, communication, and sustainable practice.

Leadership coaching

Individual coaching for physician leaders on leadership strategy, communication, and navigating complex organizational environments.

Retirement with Intention

Seminar series for physicians approaching or entering retirement, focused on purpose, identity, and designing a meaningful next chapter beyond financial planning.

Offsites & speaking

Design and facilitation of offsites and talks centered on restoring compassion in medical care, with practical implications for patients, clinicians, and health systems.

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For advisory inquiries, clinical strategy discussions, diligence support, or early-stage healthcare ideas.

arnd@herzadvisory.org

Oakland, California