Who we are
Senior people. Practical judgment. Work that gets implemented.
Cogentis is a principal-led healthcare advisory firm. We bring together trusted senior specialists around each mandate, giving clients the depth they need without layers of unnecessary complexity.
Leadership
Astrid Levelt
Founder and Principal
Astrid is a senior healthcare leader and advisor with deep experience in Medical Affairs, physician governance and compensation, health-system operations, workforce strategy and transformation.
A former Coporate Director of Medical Affairs at Providence Health Care where she had governance responsibility for 1200 medical staff, financial accountability for $92+ million and a team of 29 staff. She is a former Site Leader at St. Paul’s Hospital, she has led complex provincial initiatives involving Health Authorities, government, academic insititutions, regulators and physicians.
Astrid holds a Master of Science in Management (Health Administration) and has completed executive education at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, UBC Sauder and the University of Ottawa. Her work focuses on solving complex healthcare problems and turning strategy into practical, sustainable implementation.
Astrid has assembled a network of experienced associates with experience in government, health leadership, clinical services, data analytics and operations to work on assignments with her at Cogentis Health Group.
How we work
Solve the real problem
We look beyond the presenting issue to the mandates, incentives and accountabilities shaping it.
Senior people do the work
The people clients meet are the people responsible for the thinking, judgment and delivery.
Implementation matters
Recommendations are designed for real operating environments, with support through execution.
Good governance
We make decision rights, ownership and measures of success explicit from the start.
A network built around the mandate.
Cogentis Health Group draws on a trusted network of senior healthcare, clinical, financial and organizational specialists. Each team is deliberately assembled for the problem at hand—and led with one clear point of accountability.