ABOUT NSPIRE
HEALTH SOLUTIONS

We’re building a future where healthcare works for real patients — powered by behavior-led strategies and innovation.

20+ Years

Healthcare Strategy & Engagement
For Patients • HCPs • the Ecosystem

$500M+ Brands Led

Biopharma • Retail Health • Payer

National to Local Impact

250K+ Patient Activations

10+ Therapeutic Areas

Launch & Brand Acceleration

Our lived experience

Patients • Caregivers • Physicians • Coaches • Payers • Commercial Leaders

We’ve navigated delayed diagnoses, chronic illness, caregiving, and fragmented systems that make even simple decisions harder than they should be.

We’ve led national programs for access and adherence, and built patient pathways for complex, underserved populations.

That experience drives every strategy we build.

OUR MISSION

We help life sciences and healthcare leaders close the gap between intention and impact, transforming patient-centered ambition into enduring value for patients and the business.

WHAT SETS US APART

Behavior as a core lens
Most strategies are built around the patient we hope exists. We build around the patient who actually shows up — navigating cost, confusion, cultural barriers, competing priorities, and a system that wasn't designed for them. That behavioral lens shapes every strategy we build.
Lived experience + strategic rigor
Some firms bring templates. We bring strategic expertise and lived perspective from our experiences as patients, caregivers, and commercial leaders to build strategies made for your business, not pulled from a one‑size‑fits‑all playbook.
From strategy to proof to scale
Good intentions alone don't provide a pathway to repeatable success. We build measurement into the work from day one so innovation can be validated, refined, and scaled — not just piloted and abandoned.
Senior-led, no layers
When you work with Nspire you work with the people who have been in your shoes. No handoffs, no junior teams running point. The expertise you engaged is the expertise you get.

LEADERSHIP

Nagawa Kakumba, MBA, NBC-HWC Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Nagawa Kakumba is a healthcare executive and patient-centered strategy leader with 25+ years of experience driving commercial growth, engagement, and transformation across life sciences and healthcare, including work with Pfizer, AbbVie, and Walgreens. A Mayo Clinic–certified health and wellness coach, she brings a distinctive whole- person lens to translating complex science and real patient behavior into strategies that close critical gaps in care; expanding access, accelerating adoption, and delivering measurable impact for patients, communities, and business performance.

CREDENTIALS & EXPERIENCE:
  • MBA, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
  • B.S. in Economics, University at Albany, (SUNY)
  • Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC),
    Mayo Clinic
  • Commercial leadership: Pfizer, AbbVie, Walgreens
  • $500M+ brand strategy and growth across biopharma and retail health
  • 25+ years leading launches, engagement, and transformation
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Dr. Anthony Mckitty, MD, MS Chief Medical and Strategy Advisor

Dr. McKitty serves as Chief Medical Advisor in an independent advisory capacity, bringing deep clinical and population health expertise to our strategic work. He is a passionate advocate for expanding access to care, whole-person health, and healthcare innovation.

CREDENTIALS & EXPERIENCE:

  • MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • MS, Organic Chemistry, University of Michigan
  • B.S. in Organic Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), cum laude
  • Board Certified, Internal Medicine
  • Medical Director, major national health plan
  • 25+ years in value-based care and population health
  • Clinical practice: FQHCs, VA, and value-based 
primary care
  • Medical fluency in Spanish
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Our Collaborative network

A senior-led, curated network of independent experts—engaged as needed.


Meet a few consultants from our collaborative network.

Jacalyn
Brand Strategy

Award-winning marketing executive with 25+ years shaping strategies that elevate brand impact, strengthen communities, and expand access to critical health information.

Kavitha
Operations Strategy

Program leader driving operational excellence and AI-powered Optimization. 25+ years in healthcare and medical device delivering profitable growth initiatives.

Michael
Research Operations

Senior clinical research leader with 25+ years delivering global Phase II-IV trials, RWE studies, expanded access programs, and registries across diverse therapeutic areas.

Chevonne
Digital Transformation

Digital strategist and activator leading transformation that enhances customer experience and growth. Aligns teams around North Star goals and drives results.

Prem
Medical Strategy

Healthcare and innovation leader advancing medical strategy through AI, data, and digital enablement. Drives scalable solutions that elevate patient care.

Founder STORY

Healthcare became unmistakably personal the day I delivered my son.

Even with two healthcare professionals in the family, we were advocating for him minutes after birth, when critical signs were missed and escalation was required to get him urgent care.

That moment—exhausted, frightened, and alert—revealed how quickly outcomes can shift when human signals go unseen or are filtered through assumptions and bias.

Later, leading commercial strategy for major healthcare brands and coaching individuals throughbehavior change, I kept seeing the same pattern: the most well-resourced plans stalled when theyweren't built around how people actually live.

Across both worlds, enterprise strategy and one-to-one coaching, the lesson is the same:
behavior, not intention, drives outcomes.

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Ready to unlock behavior and drive impact?

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