Aligning Teams, Operationalizing Goals, and Driving impact

Strategic planning

We are partners in planning. We move past static documents to co-design adaptable plans backed by real-time measurement strategies and the practical tools needed to course-correct along the way. Grounded in community-driven change management, we ensure that every transformation is sustainable. From short-term plans to long-term initiatives, we tailor each engagement to equip your team with the infrastructure needed to maximize efficiency and community impact.

The BME Approach

We treat strategic plans as living blueprints by bridging the gap between high-level vision and day-to-day operations, ensuring that your long-term goals are fundamentally executable.

We foster internal alignment by guiding trust-building activities and evaluating staff capacity, creating the shared purpose and group cohesion needed to execute complex plans effectively.

We center stakeholder voices by designing inclusive feedback mechanisms, ensuring that principles of health equity and collaboration are deeply embedded into your daily Public Health work.

We operationalize strategy by developing clear standard operating procedures and service delivery frameworks to standardize protocols and maximize departmental efficiency.

We embed continuous improvement by outfitting your team with customized tracking tools and annual review processes, empowering you to monitor progress and adapt to changing landscapes in real time.

Core Services

Facilitating dynamic planning workshops to identify your strengths and greatest areas of need, ultimately building a robust 3-to-5-year strategic plan that establishes your vision, mission, and unified direction.

Translating long-term strategies into concrete 1-year implementation plans, outfitting your team with customized tracking tools and annual review processes to monitor progress and adapt in real time.

Helping you operationalize your goals by evaluating your current service delivery, developing clear Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and refining fee structures to optimize departmental efficiency.

Fostering internal alignment through innovative team- and trust-building activities, enhancing group cohesion and evaluating staff expertise to ensure your team has the capacity to execute the plan effectively.

Designing inclusive feedback mechanisms to gather critical input from community partners, ensuring that principles of health equity, inclusion, and community collaboration are deeply embedded into your daily Public Health operations.

Team Lead

Meghan Russell
MPH - MANAGING CONSULTANT, STRATEGIC PLANNING

Meghan Russell comes to BME Strategies with experience in strategic planning, project management, food systems, and public health advocacy. Her public health work has focused on addressing social determinants of health and strengthening the local public health infrastructure in Massachusetts. Meghan enjoys bringing diverse groups of people together to work across systems, improving efficiency and advancing equity and sustainability. She holds a BA of Arts in History and Spanish from Penn State University and a Master ‘s degree in Liberal Arts in Food Policy from Boston University.