Partnering with Purpose.
Led by Experience.
Obsidian Advisory Group helps healthcare organizations make smarter, safer decisions—combining clinical expertise with rigorous business strategy.
Trusted by industry leaders around the world
Why OAG?
We have walked in your shoes. That is our competitive advantage.
Broad Expertise.
From strategic design to change management and implementation, we're committed to ensuring clinical education is established as a core strategic asset within a health system.
We are uniquely positioned to partner with system leaders to implement strategies related to:
• Workforce development
• GME
• UME
• Allied health programs
• Interprofessional education
• Organizational development
• Faculty development.
From insight to impact in four disciplined steps.
We Discover your reality through stakeholder interviews, data pulls, and baseline metrics; Diagnose workflows to surface bottlenecks and quantify upside; Design practical playbooks, KPIs, training, and accountability; and Deliver pilots that iterate into scalable rollouts—with dashboards and monthly reviews to sustain results.
1. Discover
Stakeholder interviews, data pulls, baseline metrics.
2. Diagnose
Map workflows, surface bottlenecks, quantify opportunity.
3. Design
Co-create playbooks, KPIs, training, and accountability.
4. Deliver
Pilot, iterate, roll out; dashboards and monthly reviews
Physician-led transformation, end-to-end.
We unify clinical strategy, revenue performance, quality & safety, patient access, medtech advisory, and training into one cohesive program—evidence-based, compliant, and engineered for measurable results that scale.
Strategic Visioning.
OAG convenes clinical, academic, and operational leaders to align a shared vision that turns strategy into coordinated action and measurable outcomes across care and education.
Value proposition and system alignment
OAG helps education leaders align GME/UME/allied-health training with system goals—shaping community-specific programs, business cases, outcomes, and communications that make education a strategic asset.
Physician-led Implementation & Change Management
When initiatives stall, especially those involving physicians, OAG delivers physician-to-physician change and communication strategies that ensure implementation.
Culture Assessment and Risk Mitigation
Resident–faculty culture drives recruitment, outcomes, and satisfaction—and often underlies issues like citations, AFIs, special reviews, poor surveys, unionization, and quality—so OAG formally assesses culture, identifies themes, and builds actionable improvement plans.
Integrated Clinical Training Structure
OAG streamlines fragmented clinical training by designing customized centralization—including shared services and staff, reporting/leadership structures, and budget/compensation models.
Workforce Pipeline Assessment and Customized Solutions
OAG aligns workforce planning with medical education by assessing pipeline and retention gaps—then designing community-specific strategies (from resident retention and faculty development to APC fellowships and leadership programs) that improve hiring, retention, and system value.
Unbreakable focus. Incisive solutions.
Obsidian captures our resilience—strength and durability that stay steady under high-pressure, complex demands. And like obsidian’s razor-sharp edge, we bring clarity and precision, cutting through complexity with incisive, actionable solutions forged in intensity.
Why “OBSIDIAN”
Strength and Durability
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass known for its incredible hardness and resistance to breaking. This mirrors the resilience of a consulting firm that remains steadfast, durable, and effective even when handling challenging, high-pressure situations and complex client demands.
Clarity and Precision
Despite being glass, obsidian has a deep, almost impenetrable appearance, yet it can be flaked into extremely sharp and precise edges. This is analogous to a company that provides incisive analysis, clear strategies, and sharp, actionable insights, cutting through complexity to deliver precise solutions.
Formed Under Pressure (Naturally)
The very nature of obsidian—formed when lava cools rapidly—directly connects to the idea that our company is expertly forged and performs best in high-intensity environments.
Experience You Can Trust.
Distinguished Healthcare Executives with Decades of Experience: Seasoned leaders with careers spanning in clinical practice, academic leadership, and executive management. Demonstrated success in multiple C-suite and senior roles, driving innovation, strategic growth, and excellence in healthcare delivery and education.
Neil Jasani, MD, MBA, FACEP
38 Years of Experience
Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine
Chief Clinical Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Academic Officer, Chief Learning Officer, Associate Chair of EM, Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), Program Director
Lisa Maxwell, MD, MHCDS
20 Years of Experience
Board-Certified in Family & Obesity Medicine
President of the Medical Group, Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Learning Officer, DIO, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and Program Director
Your questions, answered.
Explore how we work—engagement flow, timelines, data & HIPAA, pricing, and EMR/vendor integration. If we didn’t cover your question, reach out and we’ll respond within one business day.
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We’re physician-led and operator-backed—meaning your strategy is grounded in real clinical practice and translated into workflows teams can actually run. We’re vendor-agnostic, HIPAA-aware, and focused on measurable outcomes (access, quality, financial performance), not slide decks.
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We begin with Discovery (stakeholder interviews, data pulls, baseline metrics). In 4–6 weeks, most clients pilot the first changes; many see early signals within 30–90 days (e.g., access, denials, throughput). We then scale what works with dashboards and a monthly review cadence.
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Only the minimum necessary. We’ll execute a BAA on request, use secure transfer, limit access by role, and de-identify where possible. Our recommendations are built with HIPAA, Stark/AKS awareness, and audit-ready documentation in mind.
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Usually no. We optimize and integrate: redesign workflows, clarify roles/KPIs, and align your existing tools (EMR, RCM, scheduling, patient access) so they actually deliver value. If a replacement is warranted, we’ll define requirements and support selection without commissions.
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Two common models:
Scoped Projects (fixed fee): Defined deliverables (e.g., access redesign, RCM audit + playbook).
Advisory/Enablement (monthly): Ongoing physician/operations support, governance cadence, and KPI monitoring.
Pricing is transparent, aligned to outcomes, and never tied to vendor commissions.
Start the conversation.
See the impact.
Tell us your goals, timelines, and stakeholders. A physician-led advisor will respond to schedule a consultation.
