Founded in 2022 and forged from decades of healthcare innovation and leadership, Nexcurve is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in strategic transformation. Our mission is to enable healthcare organizations to serve their communities to the best of their abilities.
We work with hospitals, physician enterprises, and integrated health systems where internal and external forces are creating strategic inflection points; critical moments in time when a fundamental shift is necessary to continue meeting the needs of their community.
Early in the business lifecycle, companies experience growth and strong margins.
Over time, business begins to plateau and enters a stage of decline.
The gap between a declining market and a growing one is the strategic inflection point where we serve our clients.
In the next curve, companies leave behind a declining market for new growth.
Nexcurve is a nod to the s-curve of business, which observes that businesses follow a predictable path of semi-overlapping curves through their lifecycle. Between each curve is a gap called a strategic inflection point, a critical time in which a company has an opportunity to “jump” from its current curve to the next and ride the next wave of growth. As the nexus between one business lifecycle and the next, we help organizations navigate this gap and drive sustainable growth.
Our Philosophy
The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed.
Attributed to American fiction author William Gibson, this quote alludes to an idea that the everyday rhythms of life in the future already exist for some people today. The difference between the future and present is that in the future, those rhythms are more pervasive. Our view of innovation is that the future is under our feet, not in the stars. Grounded in humility and sworn to accountability, we help our clients find their growth and competitive advantage by taking niche signals of the present and distributing them to the masses in a way that helps everyone do more with less.
Predicting the future is gambling. Positioning for the future is strategy.
A few that try to predict the future win loud, but many more lose big. Predicting the future is harder than gurus want us to believe, and forecasting it deals in lower probabilities than many of us are willing to accept. We’ve seen organizations become quietly paralyzed by trying to predict the future and executives under fire for inaccurately forecasting it. While we cannot predict the future, we can position ourselves to thrive in a wider range of environments. We help our clients get in position to capitalize on a variety of uncertain futures rather than trying to certainly predict unknown events.
Our Team
We are creating a world where people are empowered to do more with less, where health is an asset rather than a liability to people and places, and where communities thrive through equitable healthcare. We understand change can be a difficult and emotional experience. Our aim is to help navigate change with clarity, determination, and dignity; honoring the people and investments that got you to where you are while reaching for new growth.
Our team boasts a calm and confidence to thrive in ambiguity, excel in teams, and engage with executive level stakeholders. Executives trust us because we are articulate, thoughtful, and accountable.
Michael is a healthcare leader who specializes in bringing the future into focus and helping organizations establish a competitive advantage in how they capture value from product innovation. Michael has co-founded three healthcare companies, led product innovation for a Fortune 5 healthcare company, coordinated multi-million dollar application development projects, contributed to raising multiple rounds of angel and venture funding, had companies acquired, and been a member of high functioning teams to bring numerous transformative products to market.
Jeff has over 33 years of experience as a senior health advisor. He has worked with a broad range of healthcare organizations throughout the country specializes in strategies that harmonizing process, people and technology to transform care delivery in to high performing enterprises.
Jeff served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Intellivisit, Inc. He led the organization through the transition from a team of founders to a commercially scaled enterprise that is a leader in the emerging discipline of AI-assisted care delivery and patient navigation. In May of 2023 Jeff help facilitate the merger of Intellivisit and Urgent Care Partners to create Intellivisit Solutions, combining world-class AI diagnosis software with a premier Urgent Care strategy advisory firm.
Prior to joining Intellivisit, Jeff founded Navvis Health Care in the mid-1990's as a Healthcare consultancy that grew into a category leader in competitive strategy execution. After selling the Company to Healthways in 2011, Jeff stayed on to help lead Healthways' population health strategy and business intelligence work with large integrated health systems.
Jeff Miller offers clients technical expertise and critical thinking about how to identify, evaluate, and deploy technology solutions that meet the evolving business challenges presented by health care reform. Also a pioneer in industry applications of AI and big data, Jeff offers clients an additional depth of knowledge necessary for adopting the appropriate business intelligence and decision support solutions that help drive performance and meet strategic objectives.
Shelly is a strategic marketing leader with 25 years of experience working in healthcare, academic medicine, and financial services organizations. Shelly specializes in driving brand growth by creating and delivering strategic marketing execution. With a strong customer-centric mindset, Shelly has a track record for achieving results by leading integrated marketing campaigns. Most notably, Shelly led the marketing efforts for a large not-for-profit health system, successfully rebranded a central Illinois-based medical school and academic physician practice into one singular identity, and drove profitable growth with go-to-market strategies for an Illinois-based community bank resulting in 20% year-over-year growth on the company’s balance sheet.