About Mattingly & Company

Experience assembled around the decision.

Mattingly & Company combines executive judgment, healthcare-market perspective, and modern intelligence systems to help leaders define the field and choose a practical next move.

Philip Mattingly, FACHE — Principal, Mattingly & Company
Philip Mattingly, FACHE Principal, Mattingly & Company
How the Firm Works

Principal-led, evidence-aware, and built for the work at hand.

Begin With the Decision

The first task is to define what leadership is deciding, what must be true, and which uncertainty is preventing a confident move.

Build the Field

The team makes criteria explicit, resolves relevant organizations and relationships, records provenance, and separates observed evidence from inference and open questions.

Apply Judgment

Research is translated into ranked choices, material limitations, and an action sequence leadership can inspect, challenge, and revise.

Stay Accountable

The engagement boundary, decision owner, evidence standard, and next action remain visible throughout the work. Advice does not replace leadership's decision.

The Philosophy

Every engagement begins with listening first — and understanding the real challenge beneath the symptoms.

Then asking the most important question: (Can we help?)

From there, Mattingly & Company assembles the intelligence and operating experience the situation requires, defines a practical path forward, and remains accountable to the agreed work.

Principle I

It's more about the process than worrying about the win.

Principle II

Never waste a mistake — always learn from failure.

Leadership

Experience assembled around the decision.

Principal-led and built for the work at hand, the firm combines operating experience, healthcare development, and modern intelligence capabilities.

Founder & Principal

Philip Mattingly, FACHE

Philip leads the client decision, bringing executive perspective to questions where strategy, capital, relationships, and execution must align.

He holds the FACHE credential, board certification in healthcare management from the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Partner

Pepper Hatch

Pepper contributes healthcare-development and partnership perspective to market, growth, and relationship decisions.

He works with Philip and Matt to test how an opportunity fits the operating context and what a credible path forward requires.

Director, Data & Intelligence

Matt Rimmer

Founder, Talon AI

Matt brings Talon AI’s data architecture, automation, and applied-AI capabilities into the work—connecting sources, resolving entities, preserving provenance, and producing decision-ready intelligence.

He keeps the evidence, transformations, limitations, and ranked outputs traceable for review.

Built for the Work at Hand

A focused core team, supported by a vetted bench.

Core Leadership

Philip, Pepper, and Matt remain accountable for the engagement, evidence standard, and executive readout.

Specialist Bench

When the question requires additional domain or functional depth, the firm can identify a fit-for-purpose specialist and make that role explicit before the work begins.

Clear Accountability

Specialists support the defined decision; they do not obscure ownership, provenance, or the boundary of the engagement.

Begin

What decision are you facing?

Every engagement begins with understanding the decision, the available evidence, and what a useful next move would look like.

Discuss the Decision