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Meet the Consultants

Michael Allen

  • Strategic Planning & Organizational Development
  • Clinical Quality & Performance Management
  • Transformational Leadership & Team Building
  • Service Line Development, Expansion & Optimization

Stuart Buttlaire, Ph.D.

  • Strategic Planning For Mental Health & Substance Use Delivery Systems
  • Behavioral Health Financing & Policy Reform
  • State & Federal Legislative & Regulatory Strategy
  • Behavioral Health Policy Authorship & Thought Leadership

Marisa Collins

  • Strategic Planning
  • Sales & Account Management
  • Marketing Strategy & Implementation
  • Communications, PR & Media Relations

Paul Duck

  • Strategic Planning & Strategy Implementation
  • Integrated Primary Care Models & Clinical Operations
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Innovative Partnership Development
  • Health Plan Outreach & Contracting

David Goff

  • Growth Strategies & Business Development
  • Revenue cycle management
  • Financial Analysis, Market Analysis, Strategic Planning, & Management

Sharon Hicks, MBA, MSW

  • Financial Management Of Health & Human Service Organizations – Both Service Provider Systems & Health Plans
  • Health Information Management & Management Of Electronic Medical Recordkeeping Systems
  • Technology Selection & Implementation
  • System Integration Including Computerizing Clinical Workflows

Lydia Kerr

  • Brand Strategy— Brand architecture, positioning, messaging, naming, and narrative development. Discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and research-driven insights
  • Marketing Strategy— Integrated, multi-channel campaigns across organic and paid social, email marketing, brand activations, and event marketing
  • Graphic Design & art direction— Brand identity systems, visual direction, and execution across print and digital; brand guidelines, campaign assets, and photo/video art direction
  • Website and online— Website design, UX/UI, wireframing, and responsive front-end development

Joseph Naughton-Travers, EdM

  • Development & Implementation Of Payer & Provider Strategic Alliances
  • Organizational Re-Engineering & Operations Management
  • Strategic Planning & Metric-Based Management
  • EHR & Other Technology Selection & Implementation
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Innovative Partnership Development
  • Service Line Assessment & Development

Melinda Schriver

  • Health care strategy, operations, and performance improvement
  • Digital health, technology strategy, and service innovation
  • Aging services, aging-in-place, and chronic care
  • Strategic planning, financial analysis, and business case development

Rachel Steinmetz

  • Strategic and operations management – strategy, program development, budget management, & social media strategy
  • Technology optimization – EHRs, data analytics, CRM, project management software, AI/automation tools
  • Marketing strategy and strategy implementation – social media, content creation, brand partnerships, advertising campaigns, customer engagement, graphic design, video editing, web design, ROI tracking, event planning
  • Marketing communications – Email campaigns, grant writing, proposal writing, public relations