Jill Altshuler
Jill Altshuler is a strategy consultant with more than 35 years of experience. In 2003, she co-founded AltshulerGray LLC, now AltshulerStaats. Earlier in her career, she spent seven years in the health care practice of the Boston Consulting Group, where her clients included pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, academic medical centers, and managed care organizations. For more than two decades, her work has focused primarily on academic and biomedical research organizations.
Jill advises senior leadership at universities, medical schools, academic medical centers, and other research organizations on the conception, development, and launch of new scientific ventures and on long-term strategy, including strategic planning and implementation. Working with founders, funders, and institutional leaders, she has helped shape the vision, strategy, and business plans for new institutes, including the Broad Institute, the Wyss Institute, and the Ragon Institute, among others. She has counseled presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, cancer center directors, hospital executives, and boards, and has designed and facilitated strategic planning efforts for institutions including Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
She has co-authored articles in Nature on the organizational challenges inherent in clinical genomic research and in Science Translational Medicine on novel models of precompetitive collaboration and public-private partnerships in biomedical research.
Jill received an AB in English and American Literature, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sara Staats
Sara Staats is a strategy consultant with more than 25 years of experience advising academic, research, and mission-driven organizations on issues of strategy, growth, organizational design, and long-term sustainability. She spent seven years at Boston Consulting Group, where her work focused on education, healthcare, and organizational strategy. She is currently a co-founder of AltshulerStaats LLC, a boutique consulting firm serving leading universities, academic medical centers, foundations, and research organizations.
Sara’s work spans higher education, academic medicine, biomedical research, and K–12 education. She has led strategic planning efforts for nationally recognized academic medical centers, medical schools, cancer centers, and universities; advised presidents, provosts, deans, department chairs, and boards on institutional strategy and organizational priorities; and facilitated leadership retreats and strategic discussions for foundations, research collaboratives, and professional societies. Her work often focuses on helping organizations navigate periods of significant change, including evolving research landscapes, financial pressures, technological disruption, and emerging opportunities related to artificial intelligence and innovation.
Recent engagements have included strategic planning and organizational advisory work with institutions such as Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has also supported university-wide initiatives related to online education, innovation ecosystems, AI strategy, new research institute development, and holistic institution strategic planning.
Sara received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from Georgetown University and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School.
