Neil Walker is the award-winning VP of Growth at Oar Health, a telehealth company focused on treating alcohol use disorder. He has driven growth across stigmatized healthcare categories, including hearing loss at Audicus and men’s health at Ro. At Oar, he focuses on helping people drink less or quit by reducing friction, increasing privacy, and making it easier to take action.
The longer someone waits to seek help, the more their condition progresses, the harder it becomes to intervene, and the easier it becomes to keep waiting. Delay compounds. That's what makes it so dangerous, and so worth targeting directly.