Meet Our Team
Corporate Health Group’s team brings you expertise in strategy, business development and all aspects of sales and marketing. Exclusive to health care, we partner with clients to provide customer-based solutions for their physician, employer and consumer markets.
All 30 plus members of Corporate Health Group have walked in your shoes, thus bringing a unique perspective to the consulting relationship. We’re known for our:
- Ability to both think strategically and implement tactics.
- Delivery of a product that works in your environment.
- Unequalled knowledge of the customer world – our client’s world and their customer’s world.
- Over-delivering and providing the client with more than they expected.
- Role as a trusted advisor and partner.
- Exceptional service and can-do attitude.
- Innate ability to thoroughly enjoy our work and our clients.
Meet our leadership team.
 Carolyn Merriman, President and Founder
Carolyn Merriman is the founder and president of Corporate Health Group (CHG). Her extensive experience in sales, marketing, and management was through her work in the insurance and healthcare industries. She provides consultation for strategic and business planning, occupational health, physician relations, call centers, marketing and sales. She and her team are known for truly understanding the healthcare environment, having the ability to build strategy and support the client through a hands-on approach to implementation.
Carolyn has served as faculty and presenter for several healthcare associations such as ACHE, AHA-SHSMD, The Forum, Physician Referral and Health Information, AHA-ASHHRA and Ryan-NAOHP. She is a noted speaker and contributing author for healthcare periodicals, and co-author of Physician Relations Today: A Model for Growth, and co-author of A Comprehensive Guide to Occupational Health Sales and Marketing.
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 Laurie Slater, MBA, Consultant
Laurie Slater has held leadership roles within heath care for over a decade. Laurie’s expertise is business development strategies with an emphasis on sales and marketing for Ambulatory settings. Her professional background includes operations of outreach and retail centers, building and leading sales functions from the ground up, business and marketing planning, physician cultivation and referral development. She has a proven track record in ambulatory sales force functions, territory management, competitive data analysis, brand positioning as well as ROI growth tactics. Laurie has continually built programs where growth exceeds that of the national standards. She has extensive experience in leadership training having consulted with executives and taught classes in leadership development throughout her career. Teaching others how to grow their business is her passion. Laurie brings real life experience to her consulting engagements offering practical guidance to problem solving.
Laurie is a Certified Corporate Trainer and a national speaker serving as faculty and presenter for organizations such as the American Hospital Association Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development (SHSMD), Forum for Healthcare Strategists, Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA), Radiology Consulting Group of Massachusetts General and Harvard Medical School (RCG).
Laurie holds her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Emory University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Sarasota. She is a member of Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development (SHSMD), the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) and the American Marketing Association (AMA).
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 Jill Stratton, Consultant
Jill Stratton has worked at the senior level of healthcare outreach and sales program development, training and management for over 20 years. Jill’s expertise is in working with healthcare organizations that want to start outreach and consultative sales to the physician, employer and payer markets, and working with existing outreach and sales programs that want to assess their programs and train their staff to maximize organizational goals and strategic initiatives. Her experience in building and managing outreach and sales programs, as well as her experience in leading hospital executives, physicians and boards in strategic development enables her to work at all levels in an organization from sales training and plan development to facilitating and education at the senior level. Jill’s professional background includes starting outreach and consultative sales programs for multi-hospital systems including relationship and activity management utilizing GoldMine software to maximize return on investment tracking. Jill’s work in the field as a consultative sales and outreach specialist further enhances her ability to connect with her clients through the sharing of real life experiences during training and planning consulting engagements.
Jill has served as faculty and presenter for several healthcare societies and associations, such as AHA Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development, Forum for Healthcare Strategists, Ryan-NAOHP, and Healthcare Financial Management Association. She is also a member of the AHA Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development.
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