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Consultant's Profile
Skills |
- Critical Thinking: Good analytical tools, excellent writing skills, leadership ability, external & internal consulting experience, understanding of team building, out-of-the-box thinker
- People: Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams, as project lead and peer, extensive experience doing group presentations, to executives and other staffers
- Software: MSOffice (inc. EXCEL/ACCESS), MSProject, Visio, Sharepoint, SPSS, Hyperprep (5500 form reporting for ERISA), Quickbooks
- Financial: Forecasting for health & welfare plans, project budgeting, cost benefit analysis, including ROI and NOI , assigning economic value to qualitative measures
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Education |
- 2007 Masters of Public Administration from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs
- 2005 Masters of Health Administration from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
- 2000 Masters of Science in Management from the American College
- 1985 Chartered Financial Consultant and Chartered Life Underwriter, American College
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Background |
- Roberta Winter is President of Praevalere Inc.®, an independent consulting firm that specializes in policy analysis for strategic planning and process improvement.
- She spent her formative years in the health and welfare industry, working for regional (Schwarz, Shera, & Associates), national (Fred S. James), and global brokerage entities (Sedgwick James Consulting Group) before starting her own brokerage firm in 1992, which incorporated as Praevalere Inc.® in 1996. She sold her brokerage portfolio in November of 2000 to pursue other interests.
- After completing her MHA in 2004, she worked as an internal process improvement consultant for Seton Health Network, a division of Ascension Health, in Austin, Texas.
- Roberta returned to the Puget Sound area to complete her MPA in 2006. She has participated in various consulting projects through her corporation since 2002.
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