OPERATING LEADERSHIP
Fractional COO & Operations
Who will lead ongoing operations? Add executive capacity to address margin, service delivery, and cross-functional performance.
Explore Fractional COO LeadershipFractional COO & CIO Leadership • Organizational Strategy • Executive Advisory
Strategic Clarity.
Operating Leadership.
Stronger Performance.
Seven Hundred Consulting provides fractional COO and CIO leadership, organizational strategy, and executive advisory when growth or change demands added leadership capacity. We help organizations across industries strengthen operations, evaluate investments, and turn strategic choices into business results.
$210.5M
Hospital and medical office development supported through operational leadership
$491.7M
Revenue-site P&L supported through enterprise leadership
$50M+
Strategic portfolios supported through enterprise leadership
10+ Years
Professional experience in strategy and operational leadership
Experience reflects the professional background of our founder, including work before Seven Hundred Consulting was established.
Working Together
Choose the leadership support your organization needs.
Fractional COO Leadership
Ongoing operating leadership with an agreed reporting relationship and decision authority. Best when the organization needs capacity to lead across functions.
Explore Operating LeadershipFractional CIO Leadership & Executive IT Advisory
Connect technology decisions to operational performance. Our specialized fractional CIO leadership and executive IT advisory consultants focuses on helping health plans align IT priorities, strengthen operations, and prepare for growth.
Explore Your Technology PrioritiesExecutive Advisory
Decision support for owners, boards, and executive teams. Best when leaders need an experienced perspective while retaining management responsibility.
Explore Executive AdvisoryOrganizational Consulting
A defined scope around a growth, capital, performance, or transformation question. Best when the business needs focused analysis and recommendations.
Explore Strategy & GrowthOur Capabilities
Make the right investment.
Build the capacity to deliver.
Explore the business decisions and challenges each service addresses.
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Strategy & Growth
Where should the organization grow? Evaluate markets, partnerships, and the resources needed to pursue them.
Explore Strategy & GrowthTRANSFORMATION LEADERSHIP
Transformation & Execution
How should the business navigate change? Guide executive decisions, organizational readiness, and continuity through a defined transition.
Explore Transformation & ExecutionSPECIALIZED ADVISORY
Enterprise Capital Strategy
Which investments deserve resources? Compare business cases, strategic value, and the capacity to put capital to work.
Explore Capital StrategyWhat evidence should inform the decision? Market Insights assesses demand, competition, and opportunity.
Explore Market InsightsOur Leadership & Experience
Executive perspective. Enterprise experience.
Founder & CEO
Jason Foster, MBA
More than a decade of experience spanning healthcare operations, capital development, enterprise purchasing, and growth & strategy informs Jason’s executive perspective. Through Seven Hundred Consulting, he brings that strategic and operating experience to fractional COO leadership and executive advisory across industries.
Explore the Leadership Profile →Capital Development & Operating Readiness
$210.5M hospital and medical office development
Jason helped lead operational development for Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus, serving a growing Austin, Texas community. His contribution connected capital investment with service readiness and operating capacity.
Enterprise Purchasing & Strategic Partnerships
Programs supporting 80+ Texas FQHCs and 10 Primary Care Associations
At the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, Jason directed enterprise group purchasing and revenue-generating contract programs. His work connected organizational plans with strategic sourcing and business partnerships to support member value and scalable programs.
These examples reflect Jason’s experience in prior leadership roles, rather than Seven Hundred Consulting client engagements. Organizational names do not imply endorsements or current client relationships.
Industries & Organizations
Leadership shaped around your business.
We adapt the engagement to your business model, customers, workforce, and industry requirements. Healthcare is a foundation of our experience and one of the industries we serve.
Professional services
Match service delivery capacity and leadership responsibilities to business growth.
Nonprofits
Connect mission commitments with program capacity and sustainable resources.
Membership organizations
Strengthen member value through purchasing priorities and commercial partnerships.
Healthcare
Connect capital development, service readiness, and operating performance.
Featured Insight • Preliminary Perspective
The K-Shaped Healthcare Capital Environment
Explore how differences in financial capacity may shape healthcare investment choices in this preliminary perspective, with supporting sources and limitations.
Explore the Preliminary Perspective
The K-Shaped Capital Divide
Same Industry. Two Realities.
UPPER-K • TRANSFORMATION
Invest to transform
Build capabilities, modernize infrastructure, and invest for growth.
LOWER-K • MAINTENANCE
Invest to survive and maintain
Prioritize essential replacements, operating continuity, and core services.
Conceptual illustration of Seven Hundred Consulting’s perspective. Possible trajectories, not measured data or a forecast. Background sources and limitations accompany the full article.
Our Approach
From strategic decisions to operating performance.
Our approach moves from the business question to an agreed operating agenda, with progress assessed against a baseline.
01
Define the strategic need
Clarify the problem, desired outcomes, and measures of success.
02
Align resources
Weigh capital, people, and leadership capacity against business priorities and constraints.
03
Build the business case
Test assumptions, dependencies, costs, and expected value.
04
Lead accountable action
Define executive decision rights, operating responsibilities, and escalation of material risks.
05
Prepare operations
Align people, workflows, and resources before implementation.
06
Measure performance
Review results against the baseline and adjust the operating plan.
Featured Article · September 2026
Protecting Margins Without Sacrificing Long Term Growth
Economic and geopolitical decisions for organizational growth
Explore how leaders can protect operating performance, preserve liquidity, and make disciplined growth decisions. Preview the September article and download the original 15-page PDF.
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