An honest, three domain readiness assessment across workforce, patients, and organization, scored before you ever talk to a vendor. Because implementations fail on readiness far more often than on technology.

READINESS FRAMEWORK

Part 03

Owning Your Implementation

The vendor delivers; you govern. The governance structure, the leadership stance the moment calls for, and how to keep your hand on the wheel from day one to go live.

GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP

Part 02

Choosing Your Vendor

How to evaluate vendors from the buyer's side of the table: who belongs in the room, how to build a short list, and the questions vendors quietly hope you won't ask.

VENDOR EVALUATION

Part 04

From Launch to Sustainability

The vendor delivers; you govern. The governance structure, the leadership stance the moment calls for, and how to keep your hand on the wheel from day one to go live.

ADOPTION THAT STICKS

- WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH

A workbook that scores your own organization, honestly.

Every leader gets a guided workbook and facilitator guide that follows all four parts in sequence. Your team rates itself on a clear 1 to 5 scale, domain by domain, so the number that drives action is the honest one.

It's both a planning tool and a document you can take straight to the board. Every line you fill in builds toward the story you'll bring to your executive team: your baseline, your leverage, and your roadmap, in your own words.

Domains scored: workforce · patients & community · organization · vendor fit · governance · adoption

- IN TWO WAYS

A series for many leaders, or in the weeds with your team.

FOR A ROOM OF LEADERS

The Series

Run the four sessions for a cohort of CNOs and nurse leaders at once. Everyone leaves with shared language, a common framework, and their own workbook to take back to their system. Ideal for associations, systems developing several sites, or leadership institutes.

FOR A SINGLE SYSTEM

In the Weeds With Your Team

When it's your system on the line, Kari works closely and directly with your people: facilitating the scoring, sitting in the vendor room, and building the governance and adoption plan alongside the team who will actually run it. Deeper, tailored, and grounded in your reality.

- THE PART NO ONE LIKES TO NAME

The technology isn't what people fear. Change is.

Name the fear out loud

Create the psychological safety for people to say "I'm not ready" without being judged. What gets named can be led. What stays hidden runs the implementation from underneath.

Bring AI to the bedside and the first thing that surfaces isn't a workflow gap. It's fear. Nurses quietly wonder whether the tool is here to help them or replace them. Leaders wonder whether their team can carry one more change. Left unnamed, that fear is what quietly stalls adoption long after go live.

Kari has stood in that fear on her own units, with her own staff. She treats the human side of the change as the real work, not a soft extra, and she builds the change management plan around it.

Bring the frontline in early

Staff who help shape the change stop bracing against it and start owning it. Shared design, from the very start, is the most reliable antidote to resistance.

Lead the human change, not just the technical one

The communication, sequencing, and trust building that carry people from anxious to confident, so adoption holds long after the vendor goes home.

- WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE WHEN SHE LED IT

Proof that the technology works was never going to be enough. Getting a system ready to carry it, that's the work.

6%

Length of stay

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50%

RN turnover

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51%

Patient falls

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83%

Overtime

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Results from the virtual care and workflow programs Kari led as Chief Nursing Officer. Every system starts from a different place; these are the outcomes of the work, not a promise of them.

- FOR VENDORS AND DIGITAL HEALTH COMPANIES

Is your product ready for the frontline, not just the demo?

Clinical frontline readiness review

An honest read on whether nurses will actually adopt what you've built, and what stands between your product and the bedside.

Kari also works from the other side of that table. Having been the buyer, she can tell vendors and AI companies the truth a sales cycle won't: whether the product survives real clinical workflows, what hospitals and bedside nurses actually need, and where the product genuinely fits.

Her goal is straightforward. Help vendors build the best possible products for the clinical setting, because at the heart of it, we all want to be better and do better for our patients and our staff.

Translating the hospital's reality

What CNOs, finance, and the night shift really weigh when they decide, so your team builds and sells to the room as it actually is.

Where you align

Straight guidance on your fit, your gaps, and the clinical story that will land with the people who actually sign off: nurse leaders, not just IT.

- WHY LEADERS TRUST HER

Operator level. Independent. Fluent in the whole room.

She's sat in the seat

Kari partnered with frontline nurses and leaders to build the workflows behind an Agentic Care Partner, in a real system under real financial pressure. You don't have to translate your world for her; she's already lived it.

Independent, by design

When Kari advises a health system, she holds no financial ties to the platforms she's evaluating. Her only stake is whether it works for your patients, your nurses, and your budget.

She speaks every language in the room

Board, finance, clinical, and the night shift. Kari can hold the strategy conversation and the bedside reality at one table without either getting lost.

info@soundmindleadership.com

Darren Walker: (801) 440-6153

Steve Loveless: (406) 208-7571

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