Cadence Health Media Independent strategy & leadership

Healthcare media strategy. Senior leadership, on demand.

A launch to plan. A budget to pressure-test. A team that needs a media lead. Michelle Humes helps healthcare brands and their agencies turn those moments into a clear plan of action.

For pharma, biotech, health technology, and health system teams.

15+ years in healthcare mediaNo media commissions
Michelle Humes, founder of Cadence Health Media
Meet your strategist

Work directly with Michelle Humes.

More than 15 years agency-side in HCP media and omnichannel strategy, spanning audience planning, partner selection, investment, activation oversight, and measurement.

About Michelle
Independent by design.

Cadence sells no media and takes no commissions. The recommendation starts with your brief.

Three ways to work together

A clear scope.
A plan your team can use.

Start with one decision or bring Michelle in to lead the work. Scope, fee, deliverables, and timing are agreed before the engagement begins.

01 / Strategy sprint

Build the plan.

For a launch, a new audience, or a budget reallocation.

You leave with

An audience and channel plan, investment options, partner criteria, and a recommendation with its assumptions attached.

Explore the strategy sprint
Fixed project feeOne brief. An agreed set of decisions and deliverables.
02 / Media audit

Pressure-test the spend.

For concerns about HCP audience quality or vendor performance.

You leave with

A vendor scorecard, evidence gaps, and prioritized fixes. Financial exposure is estimated only where the available data supports it.

Explore the media audits
Fixed project feeTypically 2–3 weeks after the required inputs are available.
03 / Fractional media lead

Lead the work.

For a launch, a transition, or a team without senior media capacity.

You get

A senior partner leading strategy, partner evaluation, activation oversight, and measurement alongside your team.

Explore fractional leadership
Fixed monthly feeResponsibilities, availability, and working cadence agreed up front.
See what the work looks like

The recommendation comes with the reasoning.

Read a short example of how an HCP launch question becomes audience choices, channel roles, and a decision the team can act on.

Illustrative example. Fictional brief, with no client data or performance claims.

Read the sample decision brief
CADENCE HEALTH MEDIAIllustrative decision brief / 01

Depth or breadth
for an HCP launch?

The decision
Prioritize a defined HCP audience or expand the launch footprint?
The trade-off
More repetition with a narrower audience, or broader coverage with less depth.
Before committing
Verify audience eligibility, partner overlap, and what each report can actually prove.
Open the full example
For creative, PR & medical communications agencies

You bring the idea.
Cadence brings the media strategy.

Add senior healthcare media expertise to an integrated brief. Michelle can work under your brand or alongside your team, with roles and client contact agreed at the start.

See how the partnership works
Your relationship. A shared plan.

You retain the client relationship and creative scope. Cadence develops the audience approach, channel strategy, partner evaluation, and investment options for the work you have won.

Tell Michelle about the brief
Your next step

Start with the decision you need to make.

In a 20-minute call, you and Michelle will discuss the challenge, whether Cadence fits, and what a first phase could include. No polished brief needed.

Book a 20-minute call