What We Do

Ember helps organizations make progress on complex health innovation and public impact challenges.

We work in two complementary modes: strategic convening and engagement, and health innovation and public impact advisory.

Every engagement is scoped around the specific decision, relationship, strategy, or implementation challenge in front of you

Venn diagram showing two complementary ways of working: Strategic convening and engagement on the left, health innovation and public impact advisory on the right, with an overlapping section titled 'Progress on complex challenges' in the center. Key points include facilitation, stakeholder alignment, community listening, coalition building on the left; interoperability, health tech policy, strategic communications, program design, evaluation on the right.

Strategic Convening & Engagement

  • We design and facilitate conversations and gatherings that bring diverse perspectives and expertise into alignment.

    Drawing on our combined experience in cross-sector coalition building, federal public health engagement, and health innovation ecosystem development, we create the conditions for productive collaboration — not just events, but inflection points that shift how organizations work together.

    • Convening design & facilitation: executive retreats, summits, roundtables, and curated convenings, from agenda architecture through expert moderation.

    • Multi-stakeholder alignment: coalition development, advisory board formation, and cross-sector alignment where competing interests have to converge on a plan.

    • Community engagement design: focus groups, listening sessions, and communitypartner engagement, including qualitative and quantitative input gathering that puts affected voices into decisions.

    • Capacity building & training: staff, advisory board, council member, and communitypartner training, including health equity and engagement skill-building that leaves a lasting capability behind.

    • Narrative framing & synthesis: translating what happens in the room into clear themes, decisions, and next steps that keep momentum after everyone leaves.

  • Deliverables could look like:

    • Convening design packages: agenda architecture, stakeholder prep, facilitation plans, and post-convening action frameworks.

    • After-action reports capturing key themes, decision points, commitments, and recommended next steps.

    • Coalition charters, advisory board launch packages, and stakeholder alignment roadmaps.

    • Community engagement plans: focus group and listening-session design, moderation guides, and synthesis of community input.

    • Training curricula and delivery: health equity, advisory board / council member, and community-partner training packages.

    • Stakeholder and community input reports: qualitative and quantitative findings ready to inform strategy and program design.

Health Innovation & Public Impact Advisory

  • We provide strategic advisory for organizations navigating complex healthcare, public health, and health innovation challenges.

    Our work is grounded in practical domain expertise across interoperability and health data infrastructure, public health program design and implementation, strategic communications, policy translation, market positioning — and focused on helping you move from analysis to execution.

    • Ecosystem strategy & market intelligence: mapping the landscape, the players, and the openings in healthcare and health innovation markets.

    • Policy & regulatory insight: making sense of shifting federal and state policy and turning it into strategy, across healthcare, public health, and health innovation. This spans Medicaid and waiver strategy, value-based care, regulatory and reimbursement change, coverage and access, and emerging reform and funding priorities.

    • Feasibility studies: rigorous assessment of whether an initiative, infrastructure investment, or new model can work, and what it takes.

    • Strategic investment studies: the analysis and case-making behind where to put capital and effort for public and private impact.

    • Program design: designing programs and health equity strategies built to operate in the real world, not just on paper.

    • Strategic, audience-tailored communications: messaging that moves the specific funders, agencies, partners, or communities you need to reach.

    • Thought leadership: authoritative perspective that establishes credibility and shapes the conversation in your field.

  • Deliverables could look like:

    • Stakeholder landscape maps and ecosystem assessments.

    • Market-entry and growth strategies for healthtech and health-innovation organizations.

    • Interoperability readiness assessments and data-exchange roadmaps.

    • Feasibility studies and strategic investment memos.

    • Policy and strategy briefs.

    • Program design for health initiatives at the local, state, and national level.

    • Communications strategies and messaging guides.

    • Partnership and public-private collaboration plans.

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