Level up each piece of your patient acquisition operations in behavioral healthcare.

– Business Development
– Digital Marketing
– Admissions
– UR & Rev-Cycle

50+ Years

Growth Sherpa has over 50 years of combined experience specifically in behavioral healthcare.

$1.5BIL

Our business development and marketing leaders have overseen over $1.5 billion of revenue generation.

90,000 Admissions

Growth Sherpa has seen the successful conversion of over 90,000 admissions for our clients & partners.

100+ Sales Executives

The sales and marketing team at Growth Sherpa Consulting have trained and/or consulted over 100+ executives.

Who is Growth Sherpa…
Growth Sherpa is different because of the understanding and purpose-driven approach to the challenges programs face. We will partner alongside your leaders to find solutions so programs can focus on what is most important — providing excellent patient care.

Steve Donai, founder of Growth Sherpa Consulting, is a business development executive with more than two decades of successful sales and leadership experience. His career working in behavioral healthcare fulfilled a passion for using his sales knowledge to make a positive impact on the patients and families trusting the company he served. With more than a decade of behavioral healthcare-focused experience, generation of over $300 million of revenue, oversight to 15,000+ admissions, and the development of dozens of leaders within the behavioral health space Steve decided to create Growth Sherpa to offer his unique coaching and professional development methods to assist business development leaders. Growth Sherpa is different because of the understanding and purpose-driven approach to the challenges programs face. We will partner alongside your leaders to find solutions so programs can focus on what is most important — providing excellent patient care.

With this purpose, Steve has put together a team of behavioral healthcare professionals at each level of your patient acquisition operations. So whether you need a staff level employee to put together a prospect list in a new market, a sales director to oversee your outreach team, or an executive leader to work directly with leadership to ensure all parts of the revenue generation ecosystem are working in harmony Growth Sherpa will have the bespoke plan created for your organization.

What We Do…
Growth Sherpa Consulting provides an entire suite of services to behavioral health providers to enhance their patient acquisition processes.

Business Development

We audit performance, provide best practices, assist in CRM implementation, and behavioral health focused sales training.

Digital Marketing

Growth Sherpa provides a full suite of marketing services: lead-gen, data audit, SEO/PPC, social media, podcasting, and more.

Admissions

Our leadership can assist in AC training, scripting, lead attribution, & call center opperations.

Rev Cycle | UR

Growth Sherpa Consulting also provides tools for Rev Cycle & UR to perform at clinical and financial optimization.

The Team
The Growth Sherpa Consulting team is built from some of the best leaders in modern behavioral healthcare & addiction treatment.
Steve Donai
Founder
Steve Donai, founder of Growth Sherpa Consulting, is a business development executive with more than two decades of successful sales and leadership experience. His career working in behavioral healthcare fulfilled a passion for using his sales knowledge to make a positive impact on the patients and families trusting the company he served.
Peter Maldonado
Senior Manager
Peter Maldonado is a dedicated behavioral health professional based in Houston, Texas, with a strong background in mental health, program management, and community outreach. With a commitment for improving mental health outcomes, Peter has extensive experience working with diverse populations, implementing effective business plans, and leading mental health initiatives.
Courtney Burge, PMP, SSBB
Courtney Burge, PMP, SSBB
Senior Director
Courtney Burge is a highly accomplished and results-driven behavioral health executive with over 18 years of experience. Skilled in automating workflows to improve efficiency, conversion and census. He served as VP of Admissions and Call Center Operations at Foundations Recovery Network where in his tenure, the organization grew from $94M to $350M before selling to UHS, Inc. Courtney served as Vice President of Admissions and Call Center Operations for Discovery Behavioral Healthcare, that included, Cliffside Malibu, Discovery Mood and Anxiety Program and Center for Discovery, where he lead the consolidation of Cliffside Malibu and Center for Discovery admissions departments and coordinated the integration of all the systems into Salesforce.
Chris Foust
Snr Director of Digital Marketing
Christopher J. Foust is a seasoned marketing and branding leader with over 15 years of experience driving significant growth and innovation in the behavioral healthcare industry. As a leading marketing strategy and branding executive, he has built multiple internal lead-generation teams from the ground up, directly managing PPC and SEO campaigns, social media, and content creation.