Strengthening health and human services,
from practice to policy.
30+ years across HHS at every level of government · Prosci® certified · Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · Federally certified WOSB
Start a ConversationSavin Hill Consulting was founded on a simple belief: lasting change has to work for the people who do the job. We work with health and human services professionals at the national, state, and local levels to improve the way agencies deliver services, lead teams, and manage change.
We don't hand off reports and walk away. We get in the work with your team, assessing what's real, building what's needed, and staying until it sticks.
We understand frontline work and shape change around how people actually do their jobs, so new tools and ways of working get adopted.
Working together isn't a nice-to-have. It's the critical skill that makes programs grow and outcomes improve. We build it into everything we do.
We build internal capacity, not dependency. Our goal is to leave your agency stronger, more capable, and more resilient than we found it.
Behind every system, policy, and process are the people being served. We never lose sight of who the work is ultimately for.
A well-built system, service, or plan creates value once the people it affects actually adopt it, use it, and change how they work. That's where we focus: the human side of change, where efforts succeed or fall short.
It shows up across four connected practice areas, each aimed at the same thing: a workforce that implements a new process or system, and a stakeholder process that reaches a decision people will stand behind.
Prosci®-aligned readiness, communication, and training so a rollout is genuinely taken up, not just launched.
Focus groups, community forums, interviews, and facilitation that surface what people need and move a group to a real decision.
Lean Six Sigma-informed workflow redesign that people adopt because it makes the work easier, not harder.
Partner with complex organizations to develop practical, data-informed strategic plans that align priorities, optimize resources, and improve outcomes for the communities they serve.
You bring the vision. We focus on identifying any gaps, provide recommendations, and collaborate with you on creating a roadmap for implementation that is customized for your organization, your team, and your environment. Our approach provides our clients a template that can be used for future work to build the skills and capacity of your workforce, because having consultant support is helpful but not natural and often not planned for.
See How We PartnerThirty years inside complex, regulated environments give us a practical read on how change actually takes hold. It's the hard version of change, under compliance pressure and public scrutiny.
Change practitioner certified in the Prosci methodology: structured, research-based change management.
Process improvement grounded in a recognized methodology, not ad-hoc problem-solving.
Women-Owned Small Business, certified through the U.S. Small Business Administration.
County, state, and federal levels, across child welfare, behavioral health, aging, and systems of care.
Our work starts with learning and listening. We learn about your organization, your people, and your challenges. Below are the main steps in our process.
Andrea's podcast is where the adoption conversation lives: candid talks with the people who lead change in health and human services and other complex environments. Watch every episode on YouTube.
Andrea's Substack: short, practical notes on change, adoption, and the work of strengthening health and human services and other complex environments. Read it and subscribe on Substack.