Lori Peterson
Lori launched Collaborative Consulting in 2010. With experience in the healthcare industry and a psychology and organizational development background, Lori’s focus areas include cross-sector partnership development, …
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Collaborative Consulting is a consultancy dedicated to creating a better system of health.
The Right Consultants Make a Difference
Since 2010, we’ve been helping organizations that deliver or invest in healthcare, public health, and human services meet the evolving needs of the people they serve, adapt to new environments, and create the conditions necessary to improve health at the source. We do this through research, assessment, partnership, strategy, and implementation.
We go beyond traditional, expert-led consulting approaches by facilitating meaningful dialogue among stakeholders, cultivating possibility and creativity, and helping clients expand their own capacity to act on their ideas.
The result? Longer-lasting change is embedded in your organization and initiatives.
Meet The Team
Our team of consultants is mission-oriented and outcome-driven. We bring deep subject-matter knowledge, health and social sector experience, and a client-centered approach to every relationship.
Jacob Bielecki
When it comes to designing and implementing organizational strategies and cross-sector partnerships, Jacob brings over a decade of I’ve-lived-it-myself expertise to our clients. Jacob’s work results in …
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Erin Lockwood
Erin is committed to making the system of health better by focusing on the details. She combines extensive knowledge of healthcare reform and transformation efforts with her expertise in market research, data analysis, …
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Miranda Kunkel
Miranda has a passion for improving the system of health and the delivery of aging services. Our clients benefit from her expertise in mixed-methods research, problem-solving through collaboration, and transforming …
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Alison Burger
Alison’s project management and support skills help our team exceed our clients’ expectations. Whether she’s managing a timeline or maintaining internal systems, her contributions help ensure that we deliver …
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Victor Tabbush
Victor applies his deep expertise in healthcare economics and his firm commitment to leadership and management capacity building to enable health and social care organizations to develop viable cross-sector partnership …
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Maggie Hawthorne
Maggie applies her hands-on experience in research, evaluation, strategy development, program design and implementation to help a wide range of health and social care organizations build and grow well-managed …
Learn MoreFeatured Collaborators
Our core team often works alongside collaborators from our cross-sector network. This ensures the ideal mix of high-value skill sets, fresh perspectives, and hands-on experience for every client engagement. Meet a few of our collaborators.
Joe O’Hehir
As a former CEO of a community-based organization, Joe provides executive leadership and coaching expertise to our healthcare and community-based partners and clients. His knowledge of innovative care models and nonprofit organizational leadership accelerates our client’s pathway to success.
Julie Solomon
Julie specializes in evaluation and other applied research activities that involve the collection, analysis, and reporting of quantitative and qualitative data. Julie has facilitated dozens of capacity-building workshops with health and social service organizations, grantmakers, and community leaders.
Kristin Bard
Kristin has more than 15 years of experience as an analyst in mixed-methods research and program evaluation, with particular expertise in data management and preparation, survey data collection, and qualitative analysis.
The principals that guide us
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Build Bridges
Relationships matter. We work across sectors and bring stakeholders together around challenges, priorities, and goals. We’re committed to diverse perspectives mobilizing around a common purpose.
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Respect Everyone
From large national to local community organizations, every client deserves the highest attention, focus, care, and support. When our clients trust us to engage their partners and the people they serve, we treat their stakeholders as our own.
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Embrace Change
We help make change happen for our clients and those they serve. We approach each challenge with creativity, fresh perspectives, futures thinking, and a commitment to translating ideas into action. We’re flexible in our mindset and agile in our approach, adapting to changing conditions and needs.
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Seek Clarity
We help our clients gain a clear understanding of the market, the needs of the people they serve, and the ways in which the system of health is changing. We commit to communicating clearly, providing candid feedback, and offering direct guidance that they can use to create a better future for their organization and stakeholders.
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Enable Action
It’s not about what we say we might do. It’s about what we get done. We help our clients build the capacity, capabilities, and infrastructure to turn ideas into action and action into impact.
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Commit to Quality
More isn’t better. Better is better. It’s better to help our clients fully implement a few high-impact initiatives than try to do too much at once. We do this through the right team, a well-designed and rigorous approach, and a commitment to executing with excellence.
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Research does more than answer questions. It gives clients a sense of what’s possible, solves challenges, and unlocks opportunities for change. I’m passionate about using research to guide health and human services organizations toward whole-person care, improve and expand services, and make a bigger difference in people’s lives.
Miranda Kunkel
I’m passionate about supporting teams in the health and social sectors to innovate, identify, and implement community-centered high-impact strategies to improve health and well-being. I thrive on identifying and sharing trends, opportunities, innovations and helping organizations translate insight into practical interventions.
Maggie Hawthorne
At Collaborative Consulting we help our clients achieve change, and that often means keeping an eye on the smallest details. It’s my job to make sure that our team has the support they need to deliver their best work and that our clients get the value they expect from every engagement.
Alison Burger
Today’s complex healthcare challenges call for innovative solutions that are possible only when the health and social sectors work together. I’m committed to helping organizations build the capacities they’ll need to develop viable partnership strategies.
Victor Tabbush
The way we approach our role as consultants differs from the typical. We believe the system of health has the potential to be better. But we aren’t idealists. With creativity, collaboration, and a ‘we can get there’ mindset, we work every day to help our clients reinvent themselves as the health and social care sectors continue to change.
Lori Peterson
I’ve always been committed to seeing that people, communities, and the organizations and institutions that support them can flourish – by accounting for the past, anticipating the future, and creating new opportunities for continuous growth and evolution.
Jacob Bielecki
The way we define and approach the system of health is changing for the better, resulting in numerous opportunities and big ideas. I am committed to working with our clients to start with a big idea and break it down into a process with actionable steps to achieve the desired outcomes.
Erin Lockwood