Open Seas Consultancy
Operational excellence for healthcare, biotech, and academic institutions in transition.
OSC helps organizations restore clarity, alignment, and momentum when priorities are shifting, teams are fragmented, or systems are no longer supporting the mission.
Every engagement begins with a complimentary discovery conversation. From there, we do the exploratory work needed to understand your environment, confirm what is truly relevant, and shape an approach that is practical, targeted, and built toward your goals.
We support transformation efforts, targeted capability-building, and commercial or cross-functional programs that need to land successfully — backed by Steven’s recent work across healthcare transformation, academic medicine systems, biotech commercial operations, and higher-education learning design.
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Track record
Selected work across OSC and Steven's operating history
For visitors who prefer to browse directly, here is the broader spread of work that informs OSC’s approach.
Sutter Health
Healthcare transformation, Lean integration, and contract optimization enabling $3.2M in savings and a 25% reduction in partnership expenditures.
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Financial and operational transformation across 32–35 departments, improving reporting consistency and financial visibility in a complex academic medicine setting. The cover letter also frames this as a major financial-systems transformation across a $7.8B+ portfolio.
Kite Pharma
Commercial leadership and technical operations experience spanning executive program support, automation prioritization, capital business-case work, risk evaluation across 40,000+ indirect materials, and National Meeting readiness.
Western Governors University
Competency-based, accreditation-aware learning design that translated operational excellence into practical instructional assets.
Open Seas Consultancy
Operational excellence support across healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, and nonprofit settings, including 30% program capacity expansion and 22% throughput improvement, 40% lower changeover time, and $2.5M in annual savings in an operations engagement.
Process
How engagements begin
Complimentary discovery conversation
We start by understanding your goals, constraints, stakeholders, and operating realities.
Exploratory work
We assess what is actually happening so the subject matter is relevant and the next recommendation is worth the effort.
Build toward targets
Once the problem is clearer, we shape the right path forward — advisory support, transformation work, commercial-program support, or a targeted training.
Stay adaptive
Some engagements require an embedded partner through change. Others need one well-timed intervention. OSC supports both.
Learning & Development
One-off, targeted trainings are part of the model
Some clients need broader operational support. Others need one focused intervention. OSC offers one-off trainings and practical workshops shaped by exploratory work so the subject matter is relevant to the audience, the current pressure, and the outcome you want from the session.
Steven’s materials support this through WGU SME work and graduate operational-excellence instruction with USC and Keck Graduate Institute.
About
Led by Steven Pervez, PMP, LSSBB
Steven Pervez is a strategy, transformation, and operational excellence leader with experience spanning healthcare, biotech, higher education, and cross-functional improvement work. His materials emphasize stabilizing organizations in transition, connecting siloed teams, and helping leaders turn priorities into durable operational outcomes.
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Start with discovery. Build toward what matters.
Whether you need transformation support, targeted training, exploratory work, or help leading a commercial program toward successful execution, OSC starts by understanding your environment and building toward the outcomes that matter most.