Build your next growth engine.
Turn strategy into results.
S2R Advisory partners with university presidents, boards, investors, and executive teams to identify new sources of growth, strengthen commercial performance, and execute the work required to produce results.
Direct, senior level partnership from an experienced president, chief revenue officer, business builder, and board advisor.
Operating experience, proven in results.
Selected career experience
- Education businesses and portfolios led
- $1B+Education businesses and portfolios led
- Employer partnership business led
- $200M+Employer partnership business led
- University partnerships
- 110+University partnerships
- Healthcare and workforce partnerships
- 1,100+Healthcare and workforce partnerships
- Countries reached
- 100+Countries reached
- New education business built from zero in under two years
- $27MNew education business built from zero in under two years
Experience across leading education, healthcare, and workforce organizations.
Selected organizations reflect Ranil Herath's executive, partnership, board, and advisory experience, including work completed before the founding of S2R Advisory.
Finding your highest-value path to growth, and the plan to execute it.
We need new sources of revenue.
Identify and prioritize opportunities across programs, partnerships, workforce solutions, executive education, international markets, and new ventures.
Our enrollment economics need to improve.
Optimize the student journey, from first impression through enrollment, to strengthen demand generation, conversion, pricing, channel strategy, and revenue management.
We have a strategy, but execution has stalled.
Partner with us to deploy the strategy, build accountable workstreams and metrics, and coach your team into an execution rhythm that lasts after we leave.
AI is changing our market and operating model.
Redesign student and institutional workflows using AI, analytics, automation, and the right combination of internal, offshore, and onshore capabilities to improve growth, service, and operating performance.
What the work looks like in practice.
Selected examples from Ranil Herath's executive, operating, and advisory experience.
Building a healthcare education business from zero to scale
Built a healthcare and business education venture from zero to a $27M run rate in under two years, partnering with Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and other leading universities.
Read the case studyInternational GrowthTransforming global enrollment across more than 100 countries
Led international enrollment across a network of 110+ university partners spanning more than 100 countries, rebuilding commercial operations for consistent performance.
Read the case studyWorkforce PartnershipsBuilding employer and healthcare partnerships at scale
Built and scaled a portfolio of 1,100+ employer and healthcare partnerships, turning workforce demand into a durable, repeatable enrollment channel.
Read the case studyAI and Commercial TransformationCreating an AI-enabled student recruitment and enrollment model
Designed an AI-enabled, multilingual student journey across voice, text, and email, extending reach across 100+ countries with the right onshore and offshore mix.
Read the case studyWhat leaders say about working with Ranil.
Perspectives from university, healthcare education, and business leaders who have worked with Ranil as an operator, advisor, trustee, and strategic partner.
Ranil's deep knowledge of the health care education market was invaluable in advising HMS about how to build our portfolio of educational offerings and efficiently reach prospective learners. Thanks in large part to Ranil's work, the HMS–Emeritus portfolio continues to thrive today.
Joshua Brand
Former Senior Director, Corporate Learning
Harvard Medical School
Ranil respects the academic mission while bringing the market discipline necessary to determine whether an idea can become a viable and sustainable program. He can operate effectively at the executive and board levels while remaining focused on the practical work required to produce results.
Paul Weber
President and CEO
Salem University
Ranil combines market insight, product strategy, commercialization, and execution. I have seen his ability to identify attractive markets, translate market intelligence into products and commercial strategy, and ultimately turn those opportunities into growth and revenue.
Mohan Kannegal
Former CEO, Emeritus India and APAC; Chief Strategy Officer, Apollo Knowledge USA
Emeritus / Apollo Knowledge
A practical path from opportunity to execution.
Diagnose
- Draw on partner data, field experience, and network intelligence, including industry and competitive insight
- Identify the highest-value growth and performance opportunities
- Separate attractive ideas from opportunities the organization can credibly win
Design
- Develop the growth strategy and commercial model
- Assess what to build in-house versus partner, outsource, or automate with AI
- Propose the org structure, process, technology, and capabilities to build or buy
- Establish the business case, roadmap, and measures of success
Activate
- Work side by side with executives and teams, coaching as we go
- Build momentum across critical initiatives
- Establish an operating cadence, ownership, and accountability that lasts
Scale or Transition
- Strengthen the team, systems, and playbooks
- Support leadership hiring or partner selection when needed
- Leave the organization capable of sustaining the work
You leave with more than a recommendation. You gain clear priorities, an operating plan, leadership alignment, and measurable progress toward results.
Senior leadership, supported by the right expertise for each assignment.
Every engagement is led directly by Ranil Herath and supported by a tailored team drawn from S2R's network of experienced operators and specialists. Depending on the assignment, that team may include expertise in:
Market Intelligence and Opportunity Validation
Market analysts and strategists experienced in demand assessment, competitive research, market sizing, customer discovery, and opportunity prioritization.
Product and Portfolio Strategy
Leaders who have developed degree, certificate, nondegree, executive education, workforce, and technology enabled offerings from concept through launch and scale.
Marketing and Enrollment
Commercial leaders with experience across demand generation, student recruitment, admissions, conversion, pricing, international enrollment, and the complete student journey.
Revenue Operations and Execution
Operators experienced in organizational design, CRM, analytics, process improvement, sales enablement, performance management, and AI enabled operating models.
Collectively, the S2R network brings experience across online, on campus, and international education, including higher education, EdTech, OPMs, workforce businesses, and public, private, nonprofit, and investor backed institutions.
Clients receive direct senior involvement, supported by the capabilities required to move their specific strategy into execution.
An operator's perspective, not a traditional consulting model.
Ranil Herath has served as a president, chief revenue officer, business builder, board trustee, and senior advisor across publicly listed, private equity backed, venture backed, and nonprofit organizations.
He has built new education businesses from the ground up, led large and complex commercial organizations, developed university and healthcare partnerships at scale, and operated across more than 100 countries.
S2R brings that experience directly to presidents, boards, investors, and executive teams. Clients work directly with Ranil to identify the right opportunities, mobilize the organization, and turn strategy into sustained results.
Different challenges require different ways of working.
Executive Growth Partner
Ongoing advisory support to a president, CEO, board, or senior executive.
Growth Strategy and Activation
A defined engagement that moves from opportunity assessment through implementation planning and early execution.
Commercial Transformation
Focused support for enrollment, workforce, partnerships, pricing, sales, marketing, or revenue operations.
Interim Leadership
Time-bound executive leadership for organizations navigating growth, transition, or transformation.
Investor and Portfolio Support
Commercial diligence, growth planning, value-creation strategy, and portfolio-company support.
What could your next growth engine become?
If you are rethinking growth, building a new source of revenue, or turning an existing strategy into results, let's have a conversation.