We help health systems and life science leaders navigate transformational change — grounded in fifteen years of evidence strategy and leadership practice.
Our practice sits where those two things meet — helping leaders and institutions move through disruption with clarity, not just compliance. That means research-grade rigor applied to strategy, and an embodied, philosophy-grounded practice applied to the people carrying it out.
Our mission, rooted in targeted universalism: universal goals for health leadership and evidence, reached through strategies targeted at those structurally furthest from them — underserved, underrepresented, and under-investigated communities.
Grounded Through Change is a three-session embodied leadership series for leaders navigating organizational transformation — ground, reframe, commit — using breath, reflection, and self-awareness techniques to develop perspective and lead clearly under pressure.
Cohorts & 1:1 Book a yoga class →Senior-level advisory for health systems, life sciences, and payer organizations building evidence-generation strategy and research partnerships — decision support, not just deliverables.
AdvisoryBriefs, frameworks, and applied research on leadership for transformational change, drawn from doctoral teaching and community-engaged fieldwork across health systems worldwide.
Briefs & FrameworksSustained facilitation for standing committees, task forces, and cross-role teams navigating institutional strain — building trust, structure, and psychological safety from the ground up, especially where power and generational differences complicate the work.
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Alongside coaching and advisory work, we teach weekly yoga classes — the same embodied practice that grounds the leadership method.
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Dr. Fanta Waterman, PhD, MPH, RYT works at the intersection of health systems strategy and embodied leadership. As a global health systems and services researcher and life science strategist, she has led evidence-generation partnerships at multi-national organizations and startups including Novo Nordisk and Avanir Pharmaceuticals — including a $9M cardiometabolic research partnership portfolio spanning health systems, payers, and digital health manufacturers.
That strategic range was built over fifteen years across contract, in-house, and leadership roles — from clinical trial operations at Pfizer and outcomes research at Genentech and Kantar Health, through HEOR leadership at Boehringer Ingelheim, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, and Pacira BioSciences, to her senior director role at Novo Nordisk. In 2018, she founded Serrette Brown Research and Consulting, where she now serves as Senior Advisor, assembling highly customized, agile teams that integrate seamlessly into client workflows across private, nonprofit, and government sectors — providing partnership and evidence strategy advisory, embodied leadership coaching, engaged scholarship, and institutional facilitation.
As faculty in the University of Illinois Chicago's Doctor of Public Health Leadership program, she chairs and serves on doctoral committees researching transformational change across health systems worldwide — from investigating the opportunities of innovative clinical trial designs to decolonizing HIV prevention research in Kenya, strengthening multisectoral health partnerships in low- and middle-income countries, and applying the humanitarian–development–peace nexus to investigate health system resilience during the ongoing war in Ukraine. She was recently invited to contribute a book chapter on developing third spaces for community engagement and empowerment.
Her yoga practice spans over twenty years, and her training — grounded in philosophy and social justice — shapes a distinct approach to the development of perspective and personal leadership: the same rigor she brings to research strategy, applied to helping people and teams navigate disruption in their personal and professional lives.
Coaching, advisory work, engaged scholarship, or institutional facilitation — reach out directly.
fanta.waterman@serrettebrown.com