I direct The Steadman Group's Public Health line of business, working closely with leadership to manage and support consulting engagements, business development opportunities, and team members' professional development.The Steadman Group is a woman-owned healthcare consulting business. Our mission is to improve the health of people and communities and to provide exceptional service to those who share this commitment. We carry out that mission by working with health care systems, state and local government health officials, health plans, nonprofits, public health, and partner consultants. We address the issues that sap your time and energy so that you can focus on healthier people in a healthy community.

bigthink coaching & consulting offers coaching and organizational consulting services that will transform you and your teams, helping you to imagine, get curious, navigate, create, and take action.My coaching practice focuses on helping mission-driven public service professionals, and teams take the next big steps in their leadership development while finding balance, creativity, and adventure in their lives. My strategic planning, project management, and meeting facilitation consulting is backed by over two decades of experience directing, developing, and implementing global initiatives that directly contributed to advances in global health and development.

Executive Director of a unique collaborative nonprofit that brings together about 200 development-oriented businesses and organizations, with a vision for more equitable and prosperous world, and a mission to convene, connect, and catalyze the international development community to collaborate for greater impact.The Posner Center for International Development has transformed Colorado’s global development community through a model of intentional collaboration. Today, the Posner Center community is home to close to 200 organizations working in over 100 countries around the world. We are engaged, learning, and thriving.With a refocused Vision and Mission we are aiming to be a major thought leader in global development, making meaningful contributions to best practices in the sector, with a focus on what we are learning about collaboration.Responsible for:- Strategic visioning- Organizational leadership- Financial direction- Fundraising- External and internal community-building- Directing space operations and programming

Fishburn & Associates is a global consulting firm that provides strategic planning and organizational development services to a broad range of clients, including governments, multilateral organizations, nonprofits, state and local agencies and selected private sector clients.

The Whole Food Athlete is a big idea that will start small: the simple concept is to promote community building through healthy eating and promote healthy eating through community building, with the premise that everyone should think of themselves as athletes. We hope this will eventually evolve into a broader public health initiative. www.wholefoodathlete.com

Health Pragmatics, Ltd (2008-2016) was dedicated to helping governments, communities and other organizations achieve sensible solutions to priority public health problems, with the goal of promoting health, preventing disease and eliminating health disparities by focusing on tobacco use, physical activity, birth defects prevention and control and nutrition issues.Health Pragmatics offered a wide range of quick-response professional services backed by decades of global, national and local level experience in policy and program planning and development, research design, grants management and writing, as well as training and meeting facilitation.Clients include the World Health Organization, International Union Against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, International Development and Research Center (Canada), the Global Smokefree Partnership and Boulder County (Colorado) Public Health.BigThink Partners (2014-2016) was led by owners/co-founders Burke Fishburn and Aliki Pappas Weakland, that brought the combined effect of over 50-years’ experience in organizational change, strategic communications, and partner development.

Birth defects prevention strategy development, global tobacco control strategy, policy and research

Coordination of international tobacco control activities in the over 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region, providing regional, subregional and country-level technical assistance and training for development of national policy, legislation, research, surveillance and programs.

Responsible for supporting national tobacco control activities in over 27 Asia-Pacific countries

Managed and coordinated national tobacco control planning, policy and evaluation issues for CDC's Office on Smoking and Health.

Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Developed and managed research and evaluation projects on food safety, nutrition, safety and effectiveness of drugs, medical devices and biologics. Advised Secretary on tobacco-related initiatives. As Program Analyst analyzed and coordinated public health policy issues, regulations and legislative proposals, and developed strategic and budget plans. Coordinated intra-Departmental policy activities, including national disaster recovery efforts.

Advised Senator on health care reform issues and other health policy areas. Assisted in development of health care reform strategy. Developed health legislation, monitored and researched health issues, and wrote Senator's statements, public speeches, editorials and articles.

Headed national college scholarship programs for the Navy Recruiting Command. Developed and implemented national recruiting policies, activities and advertising for the college scholarship programs and affirmative action preparatory school. Directed military and civilian staff. As Ship's Officer responsible for management of technicians and operations personnel. Directed and managed shipboard operations and weapons systems. Planned and conducted operations and exercises. Directed shipboard security, including training, emergency response systems and personnel security programs.