Brian Sokolow

About Brian Sokolow

Brian is a strategy and operations professional with experience leading strategic innovation and operational effectiveness efforts that help organizations grow and increase their impact. He created, and is currently leading, an internal incubator at Kaiser Permanente as an in-house strategist and is on the Board of Bay Area literacy nonprofit Aspire Education. Brian has experience in strategy, impact investing across asset classes, and operations in a number of social sector organizations. He is particularly interested in the intersection of profit and purpose in the areas of climate, education, and healthcare.

Experience

1. Lead Strategy Consultant, Strategy & Business Development

   Kaiser Permanente

   Mar 2024 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Spearheaded cross-functional internal incubator to serve as strategic innovation function and generate revenue: • Crafted business case for incubator and initial ideas, communicated vision to regional president and vice presidents, and obtained buy-in to create project team of 25 • Designed transformational new wellness product offering with $100.6M in potential revenue from idea to prototype launch using lean startup approach• Internal incubator tapped based on prior work to develop initial confidential product offering in $200B TAM market• Led strategic planning with hospital leadership teams to develop 3-year vision, strategy, and aligned operational initiatives by leading and facilitating planning sessions with executives, conducting strategic analysis, and achieving consensus• Manage multi-party health care delivery contract negotiation, with $170M in projected savings, in conjunction with regional c-suite; develop and present business case and strategy incorporating financial, mission, and operational lenses• Conducted market entry assessments and developed geographic strategies with $130M revenue upside based on competitive, consumer, and organizational analysis; led translation of strategies to tactical initiatives across 13 sub-markets• Co-develop emissions reduction measurement strategy for sustainable food initiatives while achieving cost reductions • Support water conservation strategy for cost-effective, sustainable, and safe water use across the enterprise• Received “excellent” rating, given to top ~10-20% of organization’s employees, in each year-end performance review on strategy team

Education

• UCLA Anderson School of Management

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2018 — 2020

• Brown University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Vizio
• Spanish
• Nonprofits
• Microsoft Office
• Non-Profits
• Research
• Tableau
• Editing
• Copy Editing
• Blogging
• Analysis
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Event Planning
• Social Media
• Leadership
• Teaching
• Public Speaking
• Facebook