Strategic Partner for Healthcare & Wellness Technologies
Champion, Connect, Amplify
Champion, Connect, Amplify
Breakthrough health innovations deserve a bigger reach.
Scouting Innovation & Shepherding Success
A breakthrough technology requires the right advocate for wider user adoption. That is what Scout Shepherd is for.
There are a few reasons why we wouldn’t be the right fit for your company. Firstly, we are not a traditional PR agency or classic medtech business consultant. Secondly, we don’t run campaigns or manage talent. Additionally, we don’t look exclusively at sales performance when making decisions on which technology companies we partner with. Although we love a transformational user story, we also deeply value scientific and safety data. Lastly, we believe partnerships should outlive an initial agreement. In other words, we don’t leave partners in the dark after we make a connection.
We are strategic connectors that scout for life-changing stories and shepherd those technologies across to new audiences.
We leverage our extensive cross-over network that spans: film and television, celebrity talent, global and public health KOLs, healthcare leadership and policy shapers, and medtech industry insiders.
We look for alignment on purpose, passion, and mission when bringing stakeholders together.
This is where impact-driven partnerships are reimagined for a healthier and happier world.
Our Bespoke Approach
1. Discovery and Alignment
Whether Scout Shepherd discovers your innovation or you come to us, we begin by understanding your company goals and objectives, target audience, and whether a compelling human narrative is the right fit for our network. We learn about your product story, market readiness, regulatory position, IP health, and commercial potential and we are honest about whether Scout Shepherd is the right connector for your technology at this moment.
2. Identifying the Right Partners
We leverage our cross-industry connections to identify the industry expert, strategic partner, celebrity talent, or new business development opportunity that can open the right doors for your innovation. Whether the goal is new market access, increased brand awareness, funding, or broader user adoption we identify the best fit within our network based on synergistic values, audience alignment, and financial considerations.
3. Introductions
We facilitate the introduction and work closely alongside you to develop a compelling business opportunity. We craft pitch narratives tailored to a connector’s motivations, values, and interests ensuring the conversation starts on the right foundation. Where celebrity endorsement or partnership is relevant we define project scope, roles, and responsibilities while keeping regulatory and marketing compliance guidelines front of mind.
4. Project Execution
We support companies through early partnership development and relationship building to maximize your innovation’s potential in the market with a new partner or amplifier. We work alongside you to adjust strategy and track progress as the partnership develops because we believe that well made connections transform healthcare, improve health outcomes, and bring the most meaningful wellness stories to the people who need them most.
5. Ready to Make Your Next Connection?
If you are ready to strategically optimize your innovation’s potential whether through new market opportunities, increased awareness, or the right partnership Scout Shepherd can help. Every connection we make is grounded in authentic alignment, genuine conviction, and a commitment to staying present until the right doors open.
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“We connect game changers to opportunity.”
— Cori, Founder of Scout Shepherd
About Cori
Network spans Hollywood, healthcare, investigative storytelling, and policy
Academy Award nominated. Emmy winning. Sundance. Netflix. HBO. Prime Video. PBS. Magnolia Pictures. Participant Media.
$116M global box office — Warm Bodies, Lionsgate
240+ countries and territories reached across her productions
Shiny Happy People — Prime Video’s largest docuseries debut to date
Wrote and produced Bending the Arc with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon — the Sundance documentary on global health equity featuring Dr. Jim Yong Kim (former World Bank President and co-founder of Partners in Health) and Dr. Paul Farmer (global health leader and co-founder of Partners in Health)
Collaborated with Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton — Zurawski v Texas, Telluride Film Festival 2024
Story impact strategist — Skoll Foundation and Sundance Documentary Film Program
Co-author, The Lancet — Binagwaho, A., Farmer, P. E., Nsanzimana, S., Karema, C., Gasana, M., Stern, C. S., et al. (2014). Rwanda 20 years on: Investing in life. The Lancet, 384(9940), 371–375. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60574-2
Scout Shepherd was founded by Cori Shepherd Stern and Emmy-winning executive producer, investigative documentary director, and healthcare storyteller.
Cori’s venture combines strategic introductions, relationship-building, and narrative development to help innovators gain credibility and momentum.
Markets in Focus
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According to the CDC (2025) over 70,000 Americans a year are struck by a severe bacterial infection caused by MRSA that conventional medicine is challenged to treat.
The global wound care market was valued at $22.22 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $30.48 billion by 2030 (MarketsandMarkets Research Pvt. Ltd, 2026).
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More than half of all senior dogs will develop a neurodegenerative condition (Nolen, 2026). Treatments to reduce symptoms or halt the progression are needed.
The pet healthcare market is valued at $269 billion in 2025 and growing at a 9% annual rate (Business Research Company, 2026).
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Approximately 115 million American adults are have pre-diabetes and 40 million adults have diabetes (CDC, 2026).
The global sugar free food and beverage market was valued at $72.9 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $139 billion by 2033 (Verified Markets Reports, 2026).