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About Strategy Real-Time
Built by Operators... Not Consultants
Strategy Real-Time was founded by two senior executives who spent more than two decades working side by side inside complex, results-driven organizations.
We’ve lived the challenges leaders face:
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Competing priorities
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Margin pressure
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Cross-functional tension
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Strategies that stall in execution
That experience shapes our approach: focused, practical, and grounded in real-world leadership.
Michelle Hamilton
Co-Founder | Strategy Real-Time
Michelle Hamilton, co-founder of Strategy Real-Time, is a senior executive recognized for helping organizations align execution, accelerate growth, and strengthen financial performance. Her work spans both operating environments and investment-backed platforms, giving her a rare perspective that bridges strategy, execution, and value creation.
Michelle has partnered closely with senior living providers, executive teams, and boards to improve operational discipline, stabilize leadership, and translate strategy into results at scale. In parallel, she has worked with investors and ownership groups, bringing an operator’s lens to portfolio performance, acquisitions, and margin improvement—ensuring that financial objectives are supported by strong execution and sustainable culture.
Known for her ability to lead through complexity and disruption, Michelle has guided organizations through periods of transformation where people, process, and performance must move together. Her leadership blends strategic clarity with practical execution, helping
organizations move beyond planning to measurable progress.
Michelle’s work results in stronger alignment across leadership, improves operational consistency, and organizations better positioned to sustain growth and profitability over time.
Thomas Baker
Co-Founder | Strategy Real-Time
Thomas W. Baker, co-founder of Strategy Real-Time, is a growth-focused executive, strategist, and entrepreneur known for aligning strategy, brand, and execution to unlock performance. His experience spans senior housing, healthcare and wellness, longevity-focused services, and medical enhancement technology, bringing a multidimensional perspective to growth and market positioning.
Tom has led and advised organizations across people-centered and consumer-facing sectors, helping leadership teams clarify strategy, expand market presence, and drive revenue growth in competitive environments. His work includes guiding organizations through expansion, repositioning, and startup phases—where alignment between vision, sales, marketing, and
operations is critical.
With a strong instinct for what resonates with both customers and teams, Tom brings creativity and commercial discipline together. He is known for cutting through complexity, energizing organizations around a shared direction, and ensuring growth strategies are executable, scalable, and sustainable.
Tom’s approach emphasizes alignment first—because growth accelerates when people, purpose, and performance move together.
Start Your Alignment
In the grind of ops-sales disconnects or high-stakes pivots, the sharpest leaders tap a discreet voice that spots what’s hiding in plain sight – without the fanfare. We’re that steady signal, turning friction into flow through phone-sharp coaching and 90-day syncs, so your moves land harder and faster.
Real conversations for leaders under pressure.
Strategy Real-Time explores the decisions, tradeoffs, and execution challenges senior leaders face when growth and margin are on the line. Each episode brings practical insight you can apply immediately.
