INNOVATE CHESTER COUNTY, guided by Social Innovations Partners, is translating existing data, research and ideas into innovation products or services leading toward Societal Impact; generating ideas and creating “buy-in” from the public to seed a culture of innovation defined as an adaptive and generative orientation to grapple with the complex social reality that challenges our world; and creating a culture of innovation/entrepreneurship across governmental departments leading to improved collaboration AND the design of new and existing service model improvements/enhancements.

Moderates an annual Social Innovations Lab for Woods Services that has created a culture of innovation and launched 10+ Social Enterprises. Woods is a premier residential treatment center that for more than 100 years has been rooted in deeply caring for some of the most challenging and vulnerable people who have intellectual or developmental disabilities and medical complexities and extreme emotional and behavioral challenges. We treat people who have some of the most rare and complicated disorders who cannot be served anywhere else. Woods is a last resort for many families whose loved ones have suffered through numerous failed placements, hospitalizations and medications. Woods has nurtured individuals and their families for over 100 years and will continue to do so.

Facilitated a Collective Impact process for the Greening Coatesville Initiative sponsored by the Brandywine Health Foundation for a Greater Coatesville. Utilizing our Social Innovations framework we utilized a peer-to-peer (cross-organization) approach that organically narrowed down the best and most feasible ideas to rise to the top while building collective "buy-in" across colleagues and institutions for Greater Coatesville. The collective left with the knowledge and tools necessary to develop a common agenda, define the backbone governance, and create shared measurement frameworks necessary to achieve population-level impact in Coatesville.

Facilitated a Collective Impact process for the Pottstown Area Food Collaborative sponsored by the Pottstown Health and Wellness Foundation for Pottstown. Utilizing our Social Innovations framework we utilized a peer-to-peer (cross-organization) approach that organically narrowed down the best and most feasible ideas to rise to the top while building collective "buy-in" across colleagues and institutions for the Pottstown Area Food Collaborative. The collective left with the knowledge and tools necessary to develop a common agenda, define the backbone governance, and create shared measurement frameworks necessary to achieve population-level impact in Pottstown.

Moderate a “train the trainer” Social Innovations Lab for University of Western Cape: Community and Health Sciences (CHS) in South Africa that creates a culture of innovation and identifies sustainable or disruptive health innovations leading to increased societal health impact. The Faculty of Community & Health Sciences Bellville campus (CHS) is a faculty for community-based, inter-professional education and research in the health and social sciences whose excellence in education and research is recognized globally. CHS has schools of Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Nursing, Dietetics and Nutrition, Psychology, Social Work, Sport, recreation and exercise science, Complementary health sciences, and Public health. Within a social justice paradigm, CHS is an engaged and connected research and learning environment to transform and sustain health and wellbeing of communities through leadership in innovative collaborative IP approaches locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Founded and launched Parent Reading Coach. Parent Reading Coach believes in the power of PARENTS to educate and guide their children in learning how to read. They do this by giving parents the knowledge and tools that decreases their dependence on formal educational systems.

Parent Reading Coach™ fills the curricula early literacy gap by taking a well defined and structured evidenced informed approach and places it into both cloud-based and early literacy books for parents and anybody that wants to teach children how to read. The curricula replicates a successful researched informed early literacy model for parents.