Built to make
Magnet® feel possible.
Clinical Excellence Coaching, LLC is an independent Magnet® preparation consultancy headquartered in Houston, Texas, serving hospitals and health systems nationwide. We help teams move from early readiness and structural gaps to evidence, writing, site visit confidence, and designation sustainability.
Founded 2024 · Houston, TX · Bonded & insured
Franklin Nduku
Founder and Principal Consultant of Clinical Excellence Coaching, LLC.
A registered nurse with years of operational and clinical leadership experience as a Magnet Program Director - guiding multiple designation cycles end to end, from gap analysis, through narrative development and evidence build, through site visit, to successful designation award.
Through Clinical Excellence Coaching, Franklin partners with hospitals across the country, with a particular focus on the leadership work that determines whether a Magnet® program endures past its first designation.
- Pre-application designation readiness planning
- ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® consulting
- Magnet Program Director mentorship
- Nurse-sensitive clinical quality indicator analysis
- Shared governance design
- Nursing leadership development
- Gap analysis through site visit and designation sustainability
“Any hospital can move toward Magnet® with the right coaching, structure, and follow-through. The submission is the artifact - the team that builds the journey is the asset.”
Three principles, applied to every engagement.
Mentorship
over dependency
We coach leaders through the work so the organization gets stronger, not just more dependent on outside reviewers.
Structure
over administrative stress
We make the path visible: readiness, evidence, writing, review, site visit, and sustainability all tied to practical next actions.
Technology
with human coaching
MPD Studio keeps the work organized while coaching helps leaders make the decisions technology should never make alone.
E. I. E. I.
Four words that decide which engagements we accept, how we show up inside them, and what we leave behind.
We hold ourselves to the same standard of clinical excellence we help our clients achieve.
We provide honest, evidence-based guidance - even when it isn't what clients want to hear.
We build capability, not dependency. Our goal is a client who no longer needs us.
Every engagement must produce measurable improvement in nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Hospitals serious about Magnet®, in any form.
We work with organizations pursuing initial Magnet® designation and those approaching redesignation - at every scale of nursing operations.