What Makes A
Good Consultant Great?
Intellectual Curiosity
Everyday is a learning experience. So if you do your best work in a structured environment with a known path forward, this is not the right place for you. Here you'll need to be comfortable navigating in an ambiguous environment and possess an innate curiosity that drives your thinking to the next level to get to the root of the tough problems.
Academic Excellence
Bottom line - we need the brightest people who have demonstrated their capabilities through an intense work ethic, intrinsic ambition and overall success in tough courses and extracurricular involvement - it's essential to quickly adapt to our world and the speed at which it moves.
Mind for Numbers
Numbers tell our stories and economics drive our behavior. You need to be a whiz at both. Sure, we're helping to improve healthcare and there is a soft-side to our work. But at the end of the day if you can't run a detailed analysis, you can't get the job done.
Natural Leaders
If you can run the numbers but they collect dust bunnies on a shelf, you haven't done your job. We need to influence and motivate our clients to action and that requires skilled leaders with proven abilities to build respectful and collaborative relationships.
Passion for Healthcare
Healthcare is our business. It's also our life and our passion. It should be yours too. If you're not out to make a substantial difference in this world, you're probably not cut out for Chartis.
Humility
Our clients don't work with us because we're smarter than they are. They work with us because we have a unique perspective on their business and we're open-minded enough to know we learn a lot in every conversation and interaction we share. The journey never ends.
If you are interested in joining The Chartis Group, please send your resume along with a cover letter to careers@chartis.com telling us why you're a good fit and why you want to work here.
Member profile: Adam
Why did you join Chartis?
My broader interest beyond healthcare is in public policy. Having spent several impactful years in city government, I decided to seek an opportunity where I could tackle a variety of complex business problems yet continue to work toward outcomes that fundamentally serve a community. That’s what Chartis does, and that’s what initially drew me to the firm. Once I interviewed and had a chance to meet some of the firm’s members, there was no question that the caliber and character of the people were as compelling a reason to join as was the work itself.
What keeps you at Chartis?
First and foremost, it’s the people. Chartis is a tight-knit group of remarkably diverse, innovative, and talented people, bound together by a high level of mutual respect and passion for solving the industry’s big problems. Secondly, it’s the nature of our engagements. We are asked to address issues that, in many cases, are too daunting for a client to approach alone. It’s rigorous, dynamic work. Each engagement brings a new set of often ambiguous problems to interpret, and new opportunities to learn and improve.
What interesting work have you done at Chartis?
After the federal healthcare reform legislation initially passed, we were hired by a multi-billion dollar health system to forecast the law’s impact on the client’s patient volumes and revenue. Lots of people were out there talking about what the law might mean for the country as a whole – but we were on the ground figuring out the impact for the providers delivering care in a specific market. I found it especially interesting to observe how a major institution reacts to sweeping change – and to inform that reaction through our analysis and insight.
Education
BA, The Johns Hopkins University
MPA, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy
