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.
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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.
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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.
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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.