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𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝗼𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗖𝗣 – 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 

Diane is a senior adviser to private equity portfolio companies.  She helps investors and portcos to deliver robust growth against value creation plans - including via post-merger integration.  She has a sweet spot in Tech-enabled B2B Services including Professional Services in the UK and EMEA.

Her experience includes:

- pre-deal MDD and post-deal operating reviews of portcos - eg for Blackstone, Mercia, Silverfleet, LDC, Rockpool, Foresight
- rapid recovery of post-merger integration and transformation, ahead of an IPO (backed by TPG)
- commercial risk analysis for a PE portco, triggering an exit via secondary buyout (backed by ICG)
- recovery of an off-shore proposition, re-positioning for growth ahead of a merger
- design and global rollout of a post-merger data integration model.

Her skills include P&L management, business strategy, sales, operations, business transformation, and change management – drawing on her experience in startups, scaleups and global business.

Founder

Career Coaching by Diane Blaxland

🚩 How will you know if my Career Coaching is right for you? Five quick signs: 

•	there is a gap emerging between your career and your satisfaction level 
•	addressing the gap is increasingly important to you 
•	there are risks if you do something, and risks if you do nothing 
•	you have some advice, but you want to take a wider, longer term view 
•	talking it through with an experienced executive feels like a good place to start 

#ExpertLeaders #Careers #PersonalDevelopment

Catalysis Advisory Ltd

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗘 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀:
🔺 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 (𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲)
🔺 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
🔺 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗚𝟮𝗖 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗕𝟮𝗚 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵

Business Advisor

Johnson Controls Inc

$5b EMEA region of $20b Business Services division of $40b Fortune100 listed company

Director Change Management, EMEA

Blaxland Consulting

Advising clients on operational and commercial change.

CPA Global

£100m global Business Services company, backed by Private Equity

Director Strategy

Williams Lea

£20m Division of this £1b global Business Services company, part of DAX30 company DeutschePost

Managing Director 

Clifford Chance LLP

£100m+ M&A practice of this £1bn global Professional Services firm

Head Business Development Operations

Blake Dawson Waldron

A$350m international Professional Services firm (now part of £1b Ashurst LLP)

Business Development, Sales & Marketing management

CEO & Founder Expert Leaders™ | Career Direction & CV Coaching | £1B PSF | $40B Fortune100 | PE scaleups | London Business School

I help professionals step into clarity, confidence, and growth - especially when navigating complex career transitions in challenging or unfamiliar markets.

My clients are technically brilliant, ambitious … and many are internationally experienced. They’re often MBAs, engineers, M&A/finance experts, consultants, lawyers, or technology & data/AI specialists. 

They're ready to step into senior leadership, but something isn’t landing. Their pitch isn’t quite resonating. The growth opportunities they seek feel just out of reach.

That’s where I come in.

With more than 10 years in senior leadership - including as Managing Director responsible for 550 people - I’ve led growth, transformation, and turnaround across organisations from under £10m to over $5Bn. 

I’ve advised private equity investors and portfolio companies on operations, building robust solutions to complex problems. 

And I bring that same level of focus, clarity, and strategic thinking into my coaching practice.

My sweet spot lies in tech-enabled B2B services - including engineering, data/AI, finance, legal, and consulting. 

Highlights of my work include: 

▪️Steering post-merger integration for a $6Bn PE-backed global professional services firm, resolving operational failures, client complaints, and transformation across 15 countries.
▪️Leading the recovery of a £1bn NHS Trust’s lab project post-dispute, bringing together investors, clinicians, scientists, suppliers, and engineers to co-create a viable solution.
▪️Delivering commercial risk analysis that identified a -70% risk to a target exit valuation for a PE-backed £100m B2B services firm, unlocking a £1Bn exit in under three months.
▪️Repositioning a struggling new BPO offshore (India) proposition for profitable growth, delivering 50% savings to the client in a new £3m contract while also tripling profit margins.
▪️Rolling out a post-merger Sales/Marketing/Finance integration model for a £1Bn global professional services firm across 30 offices in 20 countries, deployed to 4,000+ staff.

All of that senior experience now feeds directly into my career coaching.

Many of my clients are mid-career or post-MBA, and sense a need to reframe their narrative, sharpen their presence, and navigate a system that may not easily understand their value. 

We don’t just talk. We rehearse. We edit. We test. We build influence from the inside out.

Whether you're preparing for interview, pitching for promotion, or making a full pivot, I’ll help you to tailor your story, build trust, and move forward with strategic clarity.

🎯 Diane Blaxland

HER Heard

MIT-based FemTech venture to empower women via AI-assisted medical navigation support for midlife women’s health to improve patient engagement, patient experience, patient centered care, shared decision making and both clinical & functional outcomes.

MIT Critical Data

• Mentor students and postdoctoral researchers in data science and ethical AI applications in healthcare, including LLMs (large language models)
• Focus on user-centered design, design thinking, and universal design principles to enhance health tech usability for both typical and extreme users.  
• Contribute to courses, improving student engagement and learning outcomes.

Adjunct Faculty

Nehal Group LLC

Nehal Group offers a selection of services and access to an international network of content experts in healthcare. Examples of work range from local community-engaged health promotion and research for CMS and HHS, to design of an IT platform for social determinants of health measurement, to relationship management and strategic advising for an international venture-backed MedTech innovation collaboration.
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Bridging gaps for individuals and organizations, Nehal Group customizes both the package and team to achieve optimized results aligned with your unique vision and values.

President and Founder

GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)

Provide expert consultation as a healthcare subject matter expert. 1,400 companies use GLG to help solve complex strategic and operational challenges, test hypotheses, gain market feedback, and seek mentorship, all within a rigorous compliance framework.

Council Member

MIT Sloan School of Management

Via immersion in a hub of innovation & rigorous coursework seek to tackle “wicked problems.” As a Sloan Fellow, I intend to hone skills from ~15 years of experience with new tools from social entrepreneurship and Future of Healthcare technology. In the future, I aim to deliver higher quality, lower cost, and reduced disparities in whole person health.

*Recipient of Dean's Fellow merit-based scholarship.
*Published, as senior author, a chapter on AI in healthcare with MIT Critical Data Group: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-030-58080-3_247-1 
*Lead organizer for MIT Hack4theFuture for 650+ applications, 300+ participants 35+ teams
*Organizing team for MIT Hack for Inclusion, partnering with Microsoft & Bain to co-design prompts related to data integrity for ethical AI and on workforce diversity & retention
*Awarded three MIT Sandbox grants through competitive bid
*Selected as finalist for MIT Solve & PKG IDEAS competition for social entrepreneurship

Currently on leave, working on:
-writing a book
-pursuing independent consulting
-pursing Stanford GSB LEAD certificate
-mentoring/faculty in MIT HST.936-938

Fellow, Sloan Fellows MBA program

University of Massachusetts

Dual appointment in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Department of Pediatrics.

Assistant Professor

Community Healthcare Network

Our network is made up of 13 federally qualified health centers throughout Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan, along with two school based clinics, and a fleet of mobile vans that bring health services to underserved people in need throughout New York City. We provide judgment-free, high-quality healthcare, without regard to race, religion, orientation, gender identity, immigration status or ability to pay. We turn no one away.

Community Healthcare Network’s (CHN) mission is to provide access to quality, culturally-competent and comprehensive community-based primary care, mental health and social services for diverse populations in underserved communities throughout New York City.

Chief Medical Officer & Vice President of Medical Affairs

Massachusetts General Hospital

Attending Physician on Faculty Practice Newborn Service

Harvard Medical School

Member of Faculty

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

Staff Pediatrician

Founder ▪ Former Chief Medical Officer ▪ MIT Sloan Fellow alum ▪ LinkedIn Top Voice

Dr. Nehal is a founder of a digital health venture incubated at MIT leading a team designing an AI-enabled digital health solution to solve a common pain point for both doctors and patients: not enough time in a visit. Her passion for personalized medicine and user-centered design in health tech is inspired by her own patient journey, the stories of over 300 women, and interviews with dozens of clinicians.

As an MIT Sloan Fellow, a Stanford LEAD candidate and graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health with a degree in data science, Dr. Nehal has honed skills in AI-enabled big data analytics, clinical decision support, and human-centered design.

A seasoned physician executive, a former Chief Medical Officer for 14 centers, a co-author of $1.8b in Medicaid value-based care reform, Dr. Nehal is skilled at public-private partnerships to advance cross-sector solutions. She is a keynote speaker and has been an invited expert to the White House, NIH, HHS, and CMS. She is focused on systems approaches for improved health and wellbeing outcomes.

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Domains of work:
➡️Consulting
Founder of healthcare consulting firm with services in assessment of new technology for clinical/cost effectiveness, quality improvement, program evaluation, clinician engagement, community partnership, change management, coaching, & personal brand. Advise on clinical standards for SaMD, FHIR, and FAVES.

➡️Medical Affairs leadership: 
-Former Medicaid medical director with deep expertise in value-based care and delivery system transformation, clinical lead on $1.8b DSRIP design. 

-Former Chief Medical Officer & VP of Medical Affairs of multi-specialty, multi-site practice setting, a certified Patient Centered Medical Home with integrated behavioral health, dental, vision, and specialty care. Responsible for compliance for quality of care, operational excellence, cost targets, population health.

-Former Chair of Provider Review Committee for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ensuring compliance with standards.

-Former Chair of IRB ensuring research ethics and safety.

➡️Communication:
Keynote speaker and a four time LinkedIn “Top Voice” and invited to speak on social media in STEM and for physicians. Led grassroots campaigns in marginalized communities on behalf of White House and HHS. Advisor to federal and state agencies. 

➡️Medical Education
Physician leader who has co-authored national ACGME compliant curriculum and contributed to two state public health curricula. Published refugee health curriculum in an open access journal.

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH, MBA

#Caregiving depends primarily on daughters doing unpaid work without sufficient support. Let’s build a better system to support elders and caregivers. 

#eldercare #aging #disability #dementia

Somewhere tonight, a daughter is learning to insert a feeding tube using YouTube. Her mother, who once taught her how to tie her shoelaces, no longer even recognizes her face. The home health aide hasn't shown up in three days. This is America in 2025. 💔 

We are living through an "inversion" nobody planned for. More Americans will be over 65 than below 18, the first time in our history. Your parents might live twenty years past retirement. You and your partner? Four aging parents between you to take care of. Maybe one sibling to share the weight. The arithmetic of care has become IMPOSSIBLE, and we're still pretending it's a "private family matter".

Medicare won't pay for the care your parents actually need. The system was designed when families were large and women's labor was assumed to be free. Now we have 63 million family caregivers - mostly women - performing $600 billion in unpaid work annually. Women lose an average of $324,000 in lifetime earnings to caregiving.

We've built an ENTIRE healthcare system on the assumption that someone's daughter will always be available, exhausted, and broke.

In my latest article in MarketWatch, I reveal the immigration policy change that's about to collapse what's left of our care system, the states where families wait a decade for basic help, and why the geographic reality of American families makes the old assumptions about care literally impossible. I also share what happened when caregiving reached my own doorstep - and why it changed everything.

I think caregiving needs to be valued as ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE. The bridges are falling, but they're made of human beings.

What's your family's plan for what's coming?

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