Portfolios

Award-Winning Internal Communications Program

In 2015, Milwaukee County’s largest department, the Department of Health and Human Services, purchased an employee engagement program from an expensive communications firm. It was well researched and well designed…but it had trouble taking root. It defined values the department believed important, had a catchy name (“Do the Right Thing”) and solid branding and design, but only 20-30 employees out of a 900-person department were participating in it each month.

Milwaukee Justice Center

In 2012, the Milwaukee Justice Center, a three-way partnership between the Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court, the Milwaukee Bar Association Foundation, and Marquette University Law School, had both a problem, and an opportunity.

Housing First Milwaukee

In 2017, the Administrator of the Milwaukee County DHHS Housing Division was taking a backpacking trip to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. On his way back to Milwaukee, passing through security at Denver International Airport, he noticed kiosks at the security lines asking for change (which he had to empty out of his pocket anyway) to help homeless programs in the Denver area.

Hospital Psychology Fellowship Campaign

In 2018, the Director of Psychology for the Milwaukee County DHHS Behavioral Health Division approached me to bring a broader selection of applicants to his program that was recently certified by the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral Internship Programs.