Robert Sundelius

About

Robert Sundelius is a co-founder of The Human Flourishing Collaborative, a U.S. Public Benefit Company building what comes before sick care: upstream Care of Health infrastructure designed to align markets with human flourishing.He is a Board Certified Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) with over two decades of executive leadership spanning early-stage startups to the largest health system in the country. As COO within Ascension Health, he led operational strategy for a 2,300-provider network and a $1.2B portfolio, achieving 20% year-over-year growth. He served as Co-Incident Commander during the COVID-19 response across 16 hospitals and 26,000 team members.Robert currently serves as Chair of the Board of Advisors for FriendsLearn (2022 IFC/FT Global DeepTech Award winner, Carnegie Mellon University), and as Board Advisor to RKTech/Rikkeisoft (ASEAN's largest private technology company).His forthcoming book, Toward Human Flourishing, envisions a sustainable ecosystem for the Care of Health.His writing on healthcare transformation has been featured at the World Economic Forum (Davos Dialogues 2023) and in CEOWORLD Magazine, Medika Life, The Diplomatic Courier, Oliver Wyman Health, and other global publications.

Board & Governance

Robert serves as a director and advisor to organizations where governance, scale, and mission have to hold together. His contribution in the boardroom is judgment built across two decades of leadership, from early-stage ventures to organizations operating at national scale, and the pattern recognition that comes from having built the governance and operating infrastructure underneath real growth.He strengthens a board without reaching for management's controls. He holds the long view, and he asks the question the room has been avoiding.He is most additive to boards navigating growth-stage scaling, healthcare and health-technology transformation, and the alignment of purpose with long-term financial sustainability, including public benefit corporations and other organizations where mission is structural rather than decorative.He currently chairs the Board of Advisors for FriendsLearn and serves as Board Advisor to RKTech and Rikkeisoft. He is open to additional board director and advisory roles.For nominating committees, board chairs, and founders weighing board composition, Robert welcomes a conversation.