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The WCG Team — personalized attention for your needs.

Whitfield Crane Group is a boutique firm by design. The executive who scopes your engagement is the executive who does the work — supported by a contracts specialist and an administrator who keep the paperwork, deadlines and correspondence from ever becoming your problem.

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The team

Who you actually work with.

Garrett Lawson

Founder & Chief Executive · CHRO · MHA · USMC

Garrett has spent twelve years in human resources, moving up to Director, then to VP level, and on to Chief Human Resources Officer — built entirely inside complex, multi-state healthcare organisations. He holds an MHA from George Washington University and a BBA from James Madison University.

He has recruited executives, physicians and nurses throughout his career and now leads the firm’s recruiting practice.

He implemented EOS® (Traction) at two multi-state healthcare organisations and facilitates the weekly Level 10 leadership meeting for the platform he leads today.

He is a United States Marine Corps veteran and the qualifying owner of Whitfield Crane Group as a service-disabled veteran-owned firm.

Grace Han

Contracts Specialist

Grace runs the contract side of the firm — reviewing terms before anything is signed, tracking deliverables, periods of performance and renewal dates, and keeping the registrations and reporting that federal and state work depend on current.

She is the reason an engagement starts clean and stays inside its scope.

Mateo Alvarez

Administrative Assistant

Mateo keeps the day-to-day moving — scheduling, client correspondence, document control and the follow-through behind every deadline.

Clients reach him first, and he makes sure nothing waits on an unanswered email.

How we work

Three commitments we make before any engagement begins.

Senior people only

You will not be sold by a principal and delivered by a junior. Engagements are scoped to what we can do ourselves, which is why the client list stays short.

An honest scope

If the work sits outside our depth, or is better handled by counsel or an in-house hire, we will say so before you sign anything.

Work you keep

Documentation, structures, and systems are built to stay useful after the engagement ends, not to create a dependency.

Next step

Tell us what you are solving for.

We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit — and if we are not, who is.