Consulting and research firm serving healthcare, health & fitness, and communities, and focused on helping people live healthier, longer, more active lives.

Provide strategic counsel to the IHRSA Foundation, a 501c(3) with a goal to increase the capacity of the fitness industry to deliver evidence-based health promotion programs for chronic disease prevention and management.

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Interviewed Medicaid beneficiaries about unmet social and health needs, community partners about defining and measuring project success, and peer health systems about evidence-based interventions for the Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health, a 3-year, $12 million demonstration project intended to reduce healthcare spending and improve health outcomes by addressing social determinants of health.

Primary point of contact for strategic allies in the medical, physical activity and public health communities.Led development of health promotion strategies, products and initiatives (e.g., #WhyGetActive campaign reaching 2.1 million people) that raise the visibility of the fitness industry as a solution to the physical inactivity and obesity crises.Developed and implemented state advocacy strategy to enact legislation that increases the size of the exercising population, and to defeat legislation that harms business’ profitability. Managed day-to-day operations of the Government Relations and Health Promotion teams.

Oversaw projects from inception through completion and directed day-to-day operations for a boutique management consulting firm in the agri-food industry. Scope of responsibilities included project and client relationship management, human resource management, budget management, market research analysis, policy and legislative analysis, strategic planning, report writing and business development.Managed government/regulatory relationships and projects and led market development efforts in Japan and China for a start-up venture of a Fortune 500 company providing “farm to fork” food supply chain management solutions. Scope of responsibilities included project management, policy and legislative analysis and business development.