After more than 15 years in business, management consulting firm Engaging Solutions has adopted a new corporate structure and is turning its focus to quality of life issues, including health equity.
Kelli Lester, chief strategist, referenced cities and states that have recently declared racism a public health crisis and said that acts as an “umbrella” over everything the company does.
“It brought together all that’s good about Engaging Solutions into a focused impact,” Lester said.
The company is putting together a medical team, including an African American doctor from South Carolina who’s an expert in improving health outcomes. Leaders are also working with health workers, who will help people overcome social determinants of health — non-medical factors that influence health outcomes — and better understand the gaps in care.
The company’s goal is to become a top provider in health outreach, data analytics and other similar areas by 2024.
Aside from the more technical aspects of health equity, the company has taken simpler, practical steps to mark a focus on quality of life. In January the team delivered 120 pizzas to health care workers at Eskenazi Health, and a week before that they did the same for Franciscan Health.
In addition to the renewed focus externally, Engaging Solutions underwent some changes internally. The firm, which opened in 2005, reorganized to a C-suite model, which refers to the management structure of a business where C stands for chief — think CEO, CFO, etc. Leaders say the model will allow for better collaboration, more specialized expertise and the ability to more easily expand.
The plan to restructure the business started about four years ago, CEO Tammy Robinson said, as a way to ease through retirements and broaden the scope of responsibility for administrative and service functions.
Other C-suite staff are Hope Tribble, chief administrative officer; Teresa Jeter, chief operations officer; and Warren Culpepper, chief technology officer.
Co-founders Debbie Wilson, Venita Moore and managing principal Charles Johnson transitioned to members of the board of advisors.
“We have always been a company that works with the end in mind,” Robinson said.
Contact staff writer Tyler Fenwick at 317-762-7853. Follow him on Twitter @Ty_Fenwick.
