DIFFERENT BRAINS. SAME PROBLEM.
Theresa Hong
Co-Founder / Strategist / Storyteller / Professional Dot-Connector

Theresa makes complicated things make sense.
Which is useful, because most of the things she works on are complicated.
Her background spans healthcare, biologics, medical education, business development, brand strategy, sales, advocacy, communications, and the delicate art of getting very smart people to stop talking past one another.
She can take a clinical study, regulatory issue, commercial opportunity, product launch, reimbursement problem, half-formed business idea, or twelve-person meeting that has completely lost the plot and turn it into a clear story with an actual next step.
That ability has made her equally comfortable working with physicians, scientists, executives, sales teams, entrepreneurs, attorneys, manufacturers, investors, and occasionally people who believe a 94-slide PowerPoint counts as a strategy.
It does not.
At effitt, Theresa works at the intersection of strategy, communication, healthcare, and growth. She helps organizations understand what they actually have, why anyone should care, how to talk about it, and what they should do next.
She is particularly good at finding the useful idea buried beneath jargon, politics, organizational inertia, and unnecessary complexity.
Then she gives it a name, a plan, and usually a deadline.
Things Theresa Does
- Business Strategy
- Healthcare & Life Sciences Strategy
- Brand Positioning
- Messaging & Narrative
- Product Strategy
- Go-To-Market Planning
- Sales Strategy
- Business Development
- Clinical & Scientific Communications
- Medical Education
- Regulatory Communications
- Advocacy
- Reimbursement Strategy
- Executive Communications
- Pitch Development
- Proposal Development
- Partnership Strategy
- KOL Engagement
- Program Development
- Research & Competitive Intelligence
- Content Strategy
- Organizational Planning
- Making People Understand What the Hell We’re Talking About
Particularly Good At
Turning technical information into human language.
Seeing the commercial story hiding inside the science.
Finding the question nobody in the room has asked yet.
Connecting people who should already know each other.
Knowing when a problem needs more research and when everyone just needs to make a decision.
Walking into chaos with a legal pad and leaving with a strategy.
Operating System
Curious. Direct. Persuasive. Relentlessly practical.
She likes smart ideas.
She likes useful ideas more.
And if the meeting could have been an email, she will eventually make it one.


