Helping companies innovate from what is to what if.
Why Us
Philosophy is the discipline that begins in wonder and ends in truth by asking thoughtful questions about what's important and answering those questions with a rigorous response. As a consultancy, we leverage this skill in order for you to improve your business operations and strategy.
Our Services
Business Design and Operational Strategy
We work with entrepreneurs, visionaries and product teams to create businesses as well as evaluate current state in order to identify opportunities and gaps in business models to increase revenue, reduce costs as well as operate at scale.
Healthcare Industry Consulting
We engage start ups, venture capital firms and other stakeholders to provide a unique perspective on the healthcare landscape including but not limited to; key product areas, threats and opportunities, trends and future scenarios.
Fractional Operational & Strategic Product Leadership
We will bring our outside expertise, lens and critical thinking to collaborate with your leadership team to identify gaps, opportunities and put in place processes and structures to help your business transform and grow at a fraction of the cost of a full time executive.
Our Work
Personalized Marketing Strategy for a Large Health System
Our client sought to define an executable personalization strategy for several acute care programs. Partnering with marketing technology experts, we created a healthcare appropriate strategy and roadmap to build and test this capability.
Healthcare Business Design
Our client was an expert clinician who identified a pressing market need for a healthcare solution. We helped the entrepreneur create a robust business model, business plan, go-to-market strategy, organizational and operational structure to generate revenue quickly and scale efficiently.
Business Model & Business Strategy Consultations
We provide advisory services to a host of national and international private equity and angel funded companies in a confidential manner on such topics as; telemedicine, e-pharmacy, innovation in the individual and employer market as well as adjacency identification for product investments. These consults helped the client determine such things as; how to strengthen their business model, invest in new markets, mature their go to market strategy, as well as create key partnerships to differentiate in the market.
Innovation and Partnerships for an Insurance Association
Our client sought to diversify its offerings by creating a new channel to engage external partners and association members to create new products and services for existing and future clients. We proposed an accelerator concept that was implemented by the client to filter, select, mature and match nascent technology entrepreneurs and their solutions with stakeholder identified problems and opportunities.
Customer Testimonials
“Matt Durski at Philosophy Consulting has been a key resource in rethinking our business strategy as our company, TroutRoutes, seeks to scale our business from a local startup to a nationally recognized mapping brand. Above all else, Matt is very collaborative, quick to dive in and offer suggestions, and is fun to work with. Matt maintains professionalism and personality while offering strategic and out-of-the-box thinking that added true value for our business."
- Zachary Pope, CEO at Trout Insights, Inc. (dba TroutRoutes)
“Matt brings a thoughtful balance of enhancing and exploring the entrepreneur's vision while creating an actionable structure to bring the vision to life. Matt understands the challenges of start-up and brings a wealth of practical experience that facilitates focused solutions. He is an excellent collaborator, I highly recommend his consultation services.."
- Andy Paulson, CEO at Ignite Child Development Services
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I’ve worked with Matt and Philosophy Consulting in a few different capacities and can confidently say, Matt is a unique talent and gifted consultant. He has a great blend of vision, strategy, planning and executional experience that blend together into the most coveted talent….A consultant who can see around the corners of challenges and actually deliver the business results needed from transformational programs. If you are looking to both get a view of where you should be headed, how you will get there in practical terms, and what your results will be when you get to your transformation destination, look no further than Matt and Philosophy Consulting."
- Kevin Bauer, Founder & CEO of Kessel Digital
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you open to free preliminary consultations?
Absolutely, we are happy to talk with you, get a sense of the problem you are solving for and determine whether we can help prior.
What size engagements do we work on?
We are happy to assist with anything from a brief one hour consult to medium engagement helping launch your business all the way to a fractional leadership opportunity. Ideal clients are start-up to small businesses ranging from pre-revenue to 100 million/yr.
About the Founder
Matt Durski heads Philosophy Consulting with operations, entrepreneurial, digital, product, IT and program leadership experience from industry leading organizations (Life Time Inc, UnitedHealth Group, Mayo Clinic, Pearson, Social Security Administration).
He keeps his passion for philosophy alive by serving as an instructor of philosophy a
Matt Durski heads Philosophy Consulting with operations, entrepreneurial, digital, product, IT and program leadership experience from industry leading organizations (Life Time Inc, UnitedHealth Group, Mayo Clinic, Pearson, Social Security Administration).
He keeps his passion for philosophy alive by serving as an instructor of philosophy and as a member of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA). He has held applied philosophy roles as a manager of ontologies and a bioethics consultant on the ethical implications of precision medicine.
Matt holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).