Nicholas La Forest
I deliver complex healthcare building programs inside hospitals that never close.
Every line on my résumé has a longer story behind it. Read it here.
I'm always glad to meet with organizations that could use my help with complex healthcare programs and operations.
Three ways to work with me
As an employee
Join your team
An executive who has worked as both owner and contractor, and who has run his own companies. I can lead capital programs, facilities or operations.
What I bring to a team
As a speaker
Speak to your people
Practical talks on delivering large, complicated work, drawn from hospitals, construction companies and global manufacturing.
Topics and formats
As a consultant
Take on a defined problem
Operating systems, reporting and leadership coaching for organizations that have outgrown the way they run.
How I work with clients
At a glance
- Cancer center program, as an owner-side co-lead
- $580M
- Annual capital portfolio I help oversee, more than 40 projects
- $65M+
- Projects and programs I've run at Maryland, on or under budget
- 92%
- Projects a year at the company I founded
- 200+
- 2023–Present A $580M cancer center, built inside a hospital that can't stop Senior Project Manager / Project Executive (Owner's Representative), University of Maryland Medical System
- 2019–2023 Building a construction company from nothing, just as a pandemic arrived Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Susquehanna Services
- 2016–2019 Getting four divisions and a global supply chain onto one set of systems Director of Operations and Systems, Floorco LLC / Flagship Global Sourcing
Nicholas’s ability to build relationships with key hospital staff ensured that we could complete our scope on schedule.
Assistant Superintendent, Clark Construction, on the UMMC Stoler Center for Advanced Medicine
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