Strategic innovation
Crafting visionary strategies that drive meaningful impact. We help mission-driven organizations innovate with purpose, delivering solutions that are both effective and sustainable
Innovative Strategies
For Driving People-Centered
Change In Healthcare
Phicil-itate (verb): To guide and empower mission-driven individuals and organizations in creating impactful, sustainable solutions by strategically harnessing innovation, fostering equity, and intelligently leveraging technology.
Phicil-Itate Change in the News
The Framework
Phicil-itate Change Through Proven Innovation Framework
Powering social innovation through strategic innovation, intelligent tech-enabled operations, and equity.
Intelligent Operations
Utilizing cutting-edge technology and AI to create smarter, more efficient operations. We empower organizations to work intelligently, save time, and amplify their impact.
Equitable Design
Leveraging patient-centered design and system dynamics to create equitable solutions. We prioritize inclusive design that ensures everyone benefits from innovation and that all voices are heard and valued.
Is Your Healthcare Innovation Ready to Be Among the 2% That Make It?
Did you know that 98% of healthtech startups fail?
The Phicil-itate Innovation Readiness Quiz helps healthcare innovators assess their readiness for success in the competitive healthcare marketplace. Get your readiness score across key areas like market need, design, and strategy to understand where you stand and where you may need to focus to improve your chances of thriving.
Take the Quiz to Accelerate Your Path to Impactful Solutions
Thought Leadership
Phicil-itate Change Through Ideas and Conversations
Bringing transformative ideas to life through keynote speaking, insightful panels, and impactful events.
How can you help my organization?
Part of our mission is to ignite meaningful conversations that drive impact and innovation in healthcare. Sheila Phicil, our Founder, offers dynamic ways to empower your organization. Whether delivering a keynote, moderating a panel, or curating an engaging event, Sheila inspires mission-driven leaders and teams to take action. Her insights on health equity and social innovation pave the way for your leadership to take action toward a more equitable future.
Thought Leadership Topics :Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
Leveraging AI and Emerging Technologies for Healthcare Innovation
Strategies for Sustainable Social Innovation
Building Trust Through Equitable, Human-Centered Design
Empowering Diverse Leadership in Mission-Driven Organizations
Tailored Solutions
Phicil-itate Change In Your Organization
Empowering teams to innovate, collaborate, and lead with purpose through tailored advisory services and strategic support.
Advisory Services
"She really knows her stuff. Those titles after her name don't lie!”
“… Request her services before she fills up! You have a rare chance to invest in someone on the ground floor who is actually improving communities, teaching folks how to lead better, how to see from multiple perspectives, and has been doing all of this and more since she was child. She REALLY knows her stuff – those titles after her name don’t lie! “
About Us
Our History and Philosophy
Our History
Learn MorePhicil-itate Change was founded by Sheila Phicil, MPH, MS, MP, FACHE, in 2024. Sheila is a social change futurist™, health equity expert, and social impact startup founder.
Sheila brings over 15 years of experience in healthcare, driving transformative change in policy, strategy, and operations across institutions like Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Veterans Health Administration. Most recently, she served as the Director of Innovation for the Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center.
AI Solution
The COMPASS Project
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COMPASS Project
What if we lived in a world where every healthcare innovation was designed with patients, not just for them?
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