Consulting & facilitation
Curiosity-driven engagement strategy and processes that produce outcomes your team owns and can build on.
Strategic Engagement for Healthcare Leaders
The best insights rarely surface on their own.
Through strategic facilitation and stakeholder engagement, I help healthcare and public health leaders make better decisions — ones informed and shaped by the people you need to support them.
The insight you need for your initiative to succeed already exists.
But it's distributed across your organization and beyond.
I'm an engagement strategist who speaks everyone's language, from executives to engineers to community members. I bridge worlds, surface what they collectively know (and what they don't), and shape it into something none of them could have built alone.
How I Work
Our work may take different forms.
Keynotes & workshops
Interactive sessions that reframe constraints as the conditions for creativity, not the limits on it.
Coaching
Team and leader programs that build capacity to ask better questions, uncover deeper insights, and navigate complex conversations.
Contact
Let's get the right people to the table.
If you're leading a complex initiative and struggle to get the right people to the table — and actually hear each other — let's chat to see how I might help. I may bring other experts as co-collaborators or, if your project better suits their expertise, make an introduction.
Proof
A track record across complex organizations.
Experience includes stakeholder engagement for federal health agencies, schools of public health, academic institutions, and small and large businesses across healthcare — including pharma, startups, and nonprofits.
See work examples
- Designing, leading, and synthesizing interactive focus groups across internal and external public health stakeholders to surface priorities and tensions for a strategic plan.
- Engaging senior stakeholders across a complex federal health agency, synthesizing cross-agency feedback, and effectively communicating recommendations such that they became part of organizational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Devising and facilitating a two-year senior executive engagement series among national public health organizations around a shared mission.
- Using human-centered design and innovation tools to engage federal healthcare senior executives, middle managers, and frontline staff in a series of workshops that transformed how they hired, trained, and evaluated team members.
- Creating scalable outreach and engagement processes that incorporated technical and field-based experts across a complex team structure.
- Strengthening entrepreneurs' pitches through audience-centered storytelling.
- Developing and hosting a podcast centered on inspirational stories of cancer patients.
- Coaching professionals to communicate with impact and employ curiosity.
I can't underscore enough how valuable Cathy's engineering background is when it comes to building trust. It's not every day that you find a person very skilled at relationship management who also takes a lot of time in ensuring all the facts and details are right.
Cathy's expertise was instrumental to the success of our project. She created conditions for participants to feel heard, surfacing insights that she then synthesized to inform strategic planning. She consistently delivered work of exceptional quality, balancing big-picture thinking with careful attention to detail.
The workshop was intentional and effective. Cathy is a great moderator and clearly understands both the body and the mind.
About
I've always been the translator.
I believe any idea is only as good as your ability to communicate it. I have always been drawn to healthcare technologists and those with brilliant ideas who struggle to bring others along.
My path has not been linear. I studied engineering at MIT, learning to tackle any problem by thinking precisely and systematically. I then pursued theatre in New York City, learning to be present and authentic.
Maybe these pursuits sound unrelated, but to me they're not. The combination is the essence of my work. My engineering brain builds processes with the rigor to produce real results. My performance background helps me hear what's unsaid. And a deep, genuine curiosity — asking before acting, staying open when things shift — means I don't come in with the answer. I am there to help you find it.
Across pharma, startups, and federal health agencies, I've found a sweet spot as the bridge between the idea and the people it needs to bring it to life. I see the space between, ask the right questions, and am comfortable with the discomfort that comes with discerning next steps.
No matter the level, no matter the silos, I believe that the answer lies in your people. My blend of technical fluency and human insight helps people feel comfortable, envision the future, and work together to create it.
Let me do the work so your people are heard and your initiative succeeds.