Today’s health care organizations face unprecedented leadership and performance challenges.

Integrated Executive Solutions for Sustainable Impact

SullivanCotter’s Executive Workforce Services are designed to work together — aligning executive compensation strategy, leadership effectiveness, succession readiness, and change execution to drive long-term organizational performance.

By integrating data-driven total rewards advisory with leadership development and change expertise, we help organizations attract and retain top talent, strengthen executive performance, and navigate transformation with confidence and continuity.

 

How We Help

We partner with boards, CEOs, and executive teams to address their most critical leadership and organizational challenges through integrated, practical solutions — aligning executive compensation strategy with leadership effectiveness, succession readiness, and organizational change.

1. Optimize Team Effectiveness

How can our teams perform better?

• Unlock team performance to achieve better results and drive strategic change more effectively.
• Improve focus through a shared vision, purpose, and aligned goals.
• Establish processes and models for managing work, making decisions, and measuring progress.
• Foster trust and collaboration.

Through structured diagnostics and targeted interventions, we help leadership teams clarify priorities, improve decision-making, and work together more effectively — enabling faster execution and stronger organizational outcomes.

We also help ensure executive compensation and incentive structures reinforce team priorities — aligning rewards with strategic objectives, shared accountability, and measurable performance outcomes.

2. Leadership Succession & Development

Who should lead in the future, and how can we prepare them?

• Identify, assess, and develop a deep bench of leadership talent in the most critical roles.
• Improve executive leadership performance through skill development, readiness planning, and alignment to an organization’s mission, strategy and culture and plan succession to ensure continuity and set the stage for future prosperity.

We support organizations with objective leadership assessments, succession planning, and development strategies that strengthen readiness for today’s demands while preparing leaders to guide the organization into the future.

We advise boards on compensation strategy and total rewards design that attract, retain, and motivate high-performing leaders. By aligning executive pay with performance expectations, market competitiveness, and succession plans, we help ensure continuity in critical roles and long-term organizational stability.

3. Change Acceleration

How do we help people adapt and embrace change quickly and successfully?

• Accelerate adoption, reduce performance gaps in change initiatives, and embed new ways of working.
• Pinpoint the specific strategies necessary for successful change adoption based on an organization’s unique needs through detailed and strategic blueprints to align, equip, and sustain performance.

Our change acceleration approach helps organizations move beyond intent to execution — ensuring leaders and teams adopt new behaviors, sustain momentum, and deliver lasting impact from change initiatives.

Executive compensation and performance metrics can be powerful levers in driving change. We help organizations align incentive plans and leadership expectations to accelerate adoption, reinforce desired behaviors, and sustain results.