About Ducar Strategies

Ducar Strategies brings together seasoned judgment across organizational strategy, financial fluency, and complex decision-making. We partner with leaders who seek clarity in ambiguity, sustainable growth over short-term optics, and disciplined approaches to risk, value, and opportunity.

Our Founders

Dallas M. Ducar, MSN, RN, NP, CNL, FAAN

Dallas Ducar is a senior healthcare strategist and organizational leader with deep experience building, scaling, and strengthening complex institutions. Her work focuses on organizational development, financial stewardship, and long-term strategy within healthcare and mission-driven environments, with an emphasis on aligning governance, operations, and leadership to support sustainable growth. Known for her clear-eyed approach to risk and decision-making, Dallas brings a systems-level understanding of clinical operations, workforce dynamics, and regulatory complexity, helping organizations translate ambition into execution-ready strategies that are resilient, accountable, and built to last.

Dakota T. Ducar

Dakota Ducar is a financial strategist with experience advising on complex transactions, capital strategy, and long-term value creation. He began his career at Merrill Lynch in Chicago with the Klein Group, one of the largest advisory teams in Illinois at the time, managing approximately $800 million in assets. He later joined Hudson Capital Advisors, an Arizona-based investment bank, where he has advised on more than $1.6 billion in transactions across a range of industries. Dakota brings a disciplined, analytical approach to valuation, capital structure, and risk assessment, and works closely with founders and high-net-worth families to identify thoughtful diversification opportunities and strategies aligned with long-term objectives.

What Unites Us

Across sectors and silos, leaders face similar pressures: rising complexity, competing priorities, and the need to make difficult tradeoffs with imperfect information. We believe these challenges are best met not with platitudes, but with disciplined thinking, real financial grounding, and a clear view of organizational capability.

• Clarity over noise. We help clients define what matters most and exclude what doesn’t.

• Value over buzz. Financial and operational rigor guides every recommendation.

• Long-term confidence. We prioritize decisions that hold up under stress, change, and growth.

We build understanding, readiness, and pathways for success.