Value Maximization Benefiting ALL Relevant Stakeholders
VMBARS is a professional services firm that helps organizations and individuals turn complex information into clear decisions, practical systems, and stronger execution.
Reduce the distance between information and useful action.
Value Maximization Benefiting ALL Relevant Stakeholders
Make the power, incentives, tradeoffs, mechanisms, and evidence visible.
Choose the perspective closest to yours—from leading an organization to navigating a transition.
Professional services
I’m entering, leading, or supporting a PE-backed company.
Explore Private Equity 02I’m building a company or buying one.
Choose Build or Buy 03I run a healthcare business and need a stronger growth or operating system.
Explore Healthcare Businesses 04I’m trying to create more impact with limited time, resources, or capacity.
Explore Nonprofits & CommunitiesInsights, resources & individual support
Good decisions get clearer when the real choice, affected people, tradeoffs, response, and evidence are visible.
Define
Clarify the real decision.Map
Surface what matters.Confront
Pressure-test the hard parts.Design
Build the response.Test
Check the evidence and adapt.Clarify the real decision and what success means.
Surface the people, incentives, constraints, risks, and dependencies that matter.
Pressure-test the assumptions, conflicts, and tradeoffs you would rather avoid.
Build the mechanism, plan, workflow, or intervention the situation calls for.
Use evidence to see what worked, what failed, and what should change.
Share the situation. Agree on the scope. Build and apply a practical response. The work takes shape around the problem you bring.
Bring the decision, growth problem, transition, or operating issue you are facing.
Agree on what needs to be decided, built, fixed, or tested—and what is outside the work.
Use the VMBARS Decision Loop to identify stakeholders, constraints, tradeoffs, evidence, risks, and failure points.
Create a decision brief, operating system, growth plan, practical tool, or implementation roadmap.
Put it to work, review what changed, and decide what happens next.
Start with a real situation—not a generic service category.
SituationYou are joining after an acquisition. The sponsor has a value-creation plan, management has competing priorities, and decision rights are unclear.
VMBARS helpsTranslate the investment thesis into operating priorities, surface conflicts, pressure-test the plan, and build a clearer execution cadence.
Explore Private EquitySituationYour reputation is strong, but referrals are inconsistent and follow-up is fragmented.
VMBARS helpsMap referral channels, find where patients encounter delays or missed follow-up, and build a workflow staff can sustain.
Explore Healthcare BusinessesSituationYou spent months finding the company. Now you are the owner-CEO, and the first 100 days start immediately.
VMBARS helpsTurn the acquisition thesis into a learning plan, stakeholder map, board cadence, and operating priorities.
Choose the Buy PathSituationYour annual event succeeds, but donor, volunteer, relationship, and content value disappears afterward.
VMBARS helpsBuild a 7/30/90-day follow-through system so the event creates value long after the room empties.
Explore Nonprofits & CommunitiesUseful work crosses boundaries. VMBARS combines clear thinking with practical building and execution.
Turn complex material into useful understanding.
Frame consequential choices and make the tradeoffs explicit.
Create AI-enabled workflows, prototypes, and operating systems.
Turn disconnected marketing activity into a repeatable growth system.
Move stakeholders from awareness to participation and action.
Codify recurring work so execution becomes more reliable and easier to improve.
Different claims require different proof. We separate completed work, observable outcomes, public recognition, and lessons that changed the method.
Anonymized examples from prior investment and portfolio-company experience, with the limits of each claim made explicit.
Explore selected work →Public recognitionThe Yale Alumni Fund’s 2024 Chair’s Award recognized Mallet’s volunteer contributions. It is not presented as a VMBARS client endorsement.
Read the Yale recognition ↗Decision learningSee how prior decision work shaped the VMBARS focus on power, incentives, tradeoffs, mechanisms, and evidence.
See what shaped VMBARS →A recurring editorial series examining the choices, capabilities, and operating systems behind work that benefits more than one stakeholder.
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VMBARS was founded by Mallet Y. Njonkem, whose work spans healthcare investing, private equity, research, community leadership, and a transition toward medicine. That cross-disciplinary path shapes the questions and practical systems behind VMBARS.
Meet MalletVMBARS publishes practical resources so you can make progress without starting from scratch.
Canvas prompts for investment priorities, decision rights, and the first 100 days.
Decision tools for a build-or-buy choice and the first 100 days of ownership.
Canvas prompts for referrals, patient access, and staff handoffs.
Decision prompts for readiness, fit, and the tradeoffs of a medicine transition.
Decision tools for role fit, field learning, and career transitions.
Canvas prompts for stewardship, volunteer ownership, and post-event follow-through.
VMBARS stands for Value Maximization Benefiting ALL Relevant Stakeholders.
“ALL” does not mean everyone wins equally. It means people materially affected by a decision should not be ignored without a reason. We make the power, incentives, conflicts, harms, exclusions, time horizons, mechanisms, and evidence visible.
VMBARS works with individuals and teams facing consequential decisions or building stronger systems for growth, outreach, research, stakeholder alignment, and execution.
What to expect: Tell us what is happening, why it matters, what you have tried, and what a useful outcome would look like. We will recommend a practical next step.