About Walter Social Impact
What We Do
We help mission-driven teams make progress on complex challenges through strategic design and facilitated collaboration. Our work brings clarity, structure, and creative momentum to organizations working toward real-world change.
Who We Work With
Nonprofits, coalitions, public-sector leaders, and healthcare teams navigating strategy, alignment, or systems change. We partner with groups who are doing important work and need a steady, thoughtful guide to help move it forward.
The Walter Social Impact Difference
A modern, facilitation-first approach that’s clear, visual, and accessible. We blend design thinking, adult learning, and practical strategy into processes that feel engaging, grounded, and genuinely useful; no jargon, no assumptions, and never one-size-fits-all plans.
Why We Care
Because meaningful change requires teams to think together, learn together, and move forward with shared clarity. We believe the best solutions come from inside the organization; our role is to create the conditions for those solutions to emerge.
Meet Rachel.
Rachel is a strategist, facilitator, and design thinker with deep experience in public health, systems change, community engagement, and adult learning. She brings a grounded, energetic presence to every engagement, helping teams move from uncertainty to insight, and from insight to action.
Founder & Principal
Expertise
Public Health & Healthcare
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Community and Organizational Engagement: Extensive experience designing, implementing, and overseeing community health programs. Spearheaded system-wide initiatives to improve outreach and address health disparities. Expertise in community needs assessment and data-driven approaches.
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Health Equity Strategy: Led strategic planning for multidisciplinary public health improvement plans with a focus on equity. Served as system expert on health disparities and co-led committees on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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Health Services Research: Managed research projects including survey design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
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Program Evaluation: Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and assessing programs.
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Health Data Analytics: Proficient in integrating and analyzing patient utilization data with population health trends.
Strategy & Innovation
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Strategic Planning: Contributed to strategic planning for public health initiatives and community outreach.
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Innovation Champion: Recognized for developing standard research methodology for innovative healthcare concepts.
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Market Research: Established methodologies for market research within the healthcare industry.
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Data Analysis and Insights: Skilled at analyzing insurance claims data to identify local, state, and national healthcare trends.
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Systems & Design Thinker: Extensive experience using holistic approaches to problem-solving, considering all aspects of a system to develop innovative solutions with lasting impact.
Education & Learning
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Innovative Education Design: Developed original courses and micro-credentials to engage students in tackling public health disparities.
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Adjunct Instructor: Extensive experience teaching public health courses at the university level.
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Mentorship and Program Development: Designed, implemented, and oversaw mentoring programs for student success.
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Curriculum Development: Created and delivered courses on public health topics and humanitarian ethics.