Christine Smalley is a Managing Director with Claremont Hudson where she works with Fortune 500 clients and SMBs to build lasting growth strategies. Applying expertise from both corporate management and strategy consulting, she balances aggressive idealism with operational practicality. At Target Corporation, Christine developed and launched the company’s in-store clinics, and led efforts to leverage Target’s vast databases to better understand shopping behaviors to optimize store traffic. As a strategy consultant with Accenture, she worked with leading healthcare and other consumer industries to launch new products, create and test new business ideas, and develop stronger connections with consumers. Christine holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Connecticut College.
Consumer-centric telemedicine as a business model still has detractors, but wise health organizations should view telemedicine as part of their entire ecosystem and look toward retail for some pointers on adoption.