FMG Leading, a human capital advisory firm that supports leaders and organizations on a mission to make healthcare work better, has added seasoned consultant and executive leader Wayland Lum. The move broadens FMG Leading’s ability to serve its expanding base of investors and private equity-backed clients dedicated to improving the quality and affordability of the U.S. healthcare system.

As Founder and former CEO of leadership advisory Copperbox, Mr. Lum brings to FMG Leading experience accelerating transformation, building scalable organizational infrastructure, and unlocking enterprise value for private equity investors and growth-oriented leadership teams. He joins as Managing Director, further strengthening the firm’s capabilities in executive assessment, growth strategy, and leadership effectiveness, and its offerings supporting pre-investment due diligence and post-investment organizational integrations.

Mr. Lum will head the firm’s Human Capital Due Diligence and Value Creation Leadership practices, focused on three interconnected areas that impact the firm’s growing private equity client base: optimizing leadership for measurable business outcomes; building direct connections between leadership investments and enterprise value; and exploring how emerging technologies can amplify human capability.

Per Mr. Lum, “the FMG Leading team is uniquely positioned to set a new standard for healthcare value creation, quantifying human capital performance drivers to help clients assess and accelerate growth throughout their portfolios, ultimately leading to higher multiples at exit.”

Mr. Lum joins FMG Leading near the end of a momentous year. In 2025, the firm added former private equity leader Will Busch, III as President and released Healthcare Insights Reports on the need for people-led AI strategies and broader adoption of hybrid healthcare, respectively.

“At FMG Leading, we’re helping our clients position their firms ahead of market shifts,” said Matt Brubaker, Chairman and CEO of FMG Leading. “To do so, they need leadership strategies as sophisticated as their deal structures. The addition of Wayland further enhances our clients’ ability to bridge the gap between human insight and business outcomes, allowing them to build organizations where leadership and performance are measurably linked and continuously driving value creation.”

Mr. Lum previously served as a key member of Korn Ferry’s CEO and Executive Development practice, where he advised Fortune 500 executives and led global engagements focused on executive assessment, succession, and enterprise-wide leadership development. He holds an MBA from Baruch College and an M.S. in Learning and Organizational Change from Northwestern University.