Clinical nutrition is an
asset —
not a line item.
Evidence-based consulting for hospital systems, health networks, and corporate leadership on RDN workforce strategy, clinical ROI modeling, compensation advocacy, and mission-alignment. Most systems underinvest in clinical nutrition — not because leadership doesn't value it, but because no one has made the case compellingly enough.
Now accepting engagement conversations for 2026–2027 · Custom scoping per engagement
Licensed clinicians, compensated like support staff.
Registered Dietitian Nutritionists hold a master's-level credential, pass a national board exam, complete a supervised residency, and carry state licensure. In most health systems, they are compensated 20–30% below adjacent allied-health roles with equivalent or lesser training. The downstream effects — attrition, recruitment cost, reduced clinical capacity, unmet patient need — are measurable, but rarely measured.
Anonymized case context
An organization publicly committed to whole-person care was compensating licensed nutrition experts 20–30% below adjacent allied-health roles, with no formal case ever made to leadership. The resulting framework projected $94.1M in clinical value against approximately $750K in annual compensation correction cost.
125× return on investmentAll identifying details anonymized per consulting engagement terms.
Five deliverables. Built for leadership decision-making.
Each engagement is scoped to the organization — but the deliverables are consistent, because the evidence requirements for a Board, a CFO, and a CMO are consistent.
RDN Compensation Analysis
Primary benchmarking against national salary data, adjacent allied-health roles, and regional cost-of-living. Delivered with the rebuttal language for common leadership objections.
Workforce Pipeline Modeling
Attrition risk, recruitment cost, and future-state FTE modeling tied to current clinical volume and service-line growth projections.
Clinical ROI Scenario Modeling
Conservative, base-case, and optimistic scenarios tying nutrition investment to readmission reduction, length-of-stay, malnutrition capture, and value-based-care performance.
Mission & Vision Alignment
Frameworks connecting nutrition investment to whole-person care, population health, community benefit reporting, and mission-forward marketing narratives.
Leadership Presentations & Grand Rounds
Ready-to-deliver board decks, grand-rounds presentations, and one-on-one briefing materials for CFO, CMO, CNO, and VP of Clinical Services.
Program Design
End-to-end design of clinical nutrition programs for oncology service lines, GLP-1 weight-loss programs, and metabolic health initiatives — staffing ratios, care protocols, outcome metrics.
Three scenarios. One evidence base.
The full interactive ROI estimator lives on the home page — it lets your team input your bed count, RDN FTEs, and target ratio, then generates conservative, base-case, and optimistic clinical value scenarios in real time.
Employee wellness that moves the bottom line.
Beyond health-system engagements, I work with corporate organizations on nutrition-forward wellness programs that executives actually use and employees actually show up for. Transparent pricing, modular scoping, direct engagement with HR and leadership.
$1,500 / month · Up to 100 employees
Up to 10 employee consultations/month (45 min) · Quarterly executive nutrition briefing · Custom nutrition FAQ for HR · GLP-1 & weight-loss program integration · Priority email support.
$3,200 / month · 100–500 employees
Up to 25 consultations/month · Monthly C-suite advisory · Quarterly all-hands wellness presentation · Custom GLP-1, metabolic & performance content · Anonymous aggregate reporting · Branded nutrition portal.
$6,500 / month · Up to 4 executives
2× 45-min 1:1 per exec/month · Priority async messaging · Quarterly biomarker review · Annual comprehensive deep-dive · Quarterly leadership briefing · Annual spouse/partner consult included.
Workshops & Consult Blocks
Virtual workshops (60 min): $2,000 · In-person half-day: $6,500 + travel · Full-day: $12,000 + travel. Employee consult blocks: $140–$165 per session in 10/25/50-session packages.
Organizations with 500+ employees or multi-site operations typically need custom scoping. I work directly with HR, benefits, and executive leadership to design programs that fit your structure, budget, and workforce health goals.
A roster across government, entertainment, hospitality, and professional sports.
Prior corporate and health-system experience spans industries — from professional sports to global hospitality to Fortune 500 food-service operators. Engagements are governed by confidentiality; the categories below reflect the breadth of the roster.
Let's scope the right engagement for your organization.
System consulting engagements typically begin with an organizational discovery call, followed by a customized scope of work. Tell me about your system and we'll build the next step together.