Financial Mastery For Behavioral Health Leaders: The Hope Group Case Study

1:00 – 2:00 pm ET

The pace of change has increased rapidly for provider organizations in health and human services, requiring executive teams to create a financial foundation for dealing with margin compression and struggling cash flow. To meet this challenge, provider organizations need a financial mastery that can adapt quickly to disruptions and unplanned changes in the market.

During this one-hour live presentation, Josh Gardner, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of The Hope Group, will share his core lessons, including value creation, resource leverage, compounding work, forecasting, metrics, toolkits, and modern budgeting approaches. He will show executives how to stabilize their programs, make smarter financial decisions, and build systems that get “lighter,” not “heavier,” over time.

He will also walk through practical tooling and explain why hiring, incentives, and culture end up being the first financial decisions, while explaining how even weak teams with the right levers can outperform strong teams with no lever. This session is a pragmatic walkthrough of what works and what does not when leaders need to bring order, predictability, and financial strength to behavioral health programs.

Key Takeaways For Attendees

• Understand how resource leverage (people, tools, and systems) allows executives to stop relying on “heroics.”
• Learn the core financial metrics that keep a program cash-flow positive without drowning in spreadsheets.
• Build a plan for compounding improvements that strengthen the program month after month.