About Us
Services
Kickstand Health Consulting helps public health and healthcare teams design and deliver exceptional projects, trainings, and resources. We provide real support for busy professionals who are working to improve people's health.
Program Planning
Kickstand Health can help you develop a short- or long-term program plan that will allow you to reach your goals and maximize the impact of your spending. Goals still undefined? We can help with that, too.
Resource Development
From fact sheets to web content to in-depth guidebooks, Kickstand Health can develop engaging, actionable, evidence-based resources designed to meet the needs of your audience.
Training and Facilitation
Looking for interactive ways to educate providers, patients, or families? Need help planning and facilitating an engaging, productive meeting? From designing trainings and meetings to developing content for webinars and e-learning, we've got you covered.
Project Management
Under-staffed? Kickstand Health can ensure the successful management of projects and programs, including developing and managing timelines, communicating with stakeholders, providing budget oversight, and assisting with grant reporting.
The Kickstand Cycle
Developed and refined through years of experience, the Kickstand Cycle is our structured, flexible approach to managing projects. Recognizing that each client engagement is unique, this framework allows us to offer customized support while providing a focused, intentional, and effective process for determining expectations and desired outcomes, identifying and analyzing potential solutions, and delivering an exceptional service.
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Ready
During this phase, we work with you to define the project, connect with key stakeholders, and conduct research and needs assessment.
With a bias toward action, we begin to plan, manage, develop, or create as soon as we have the essential information. We check in regularly to make sure we're on track.
Set
ROLL
We implement, evaluate, and refine to ensure we meet your expected outcomes. Go ahead and relax--you can lean on us. We'll keep things rolling.
Beliefs
At Kickstand Health, we believe that hiring a consultant should save you time, not create more work. We believe in getting things done and doing things right. We believe in sweating the small stuff--and the big stuff--so you don't have to. We believe your project matters. And we believe that a day spent working hard on something that matters is a good day.
Leadership
Laura Frankel DeStigter, MPH
As the Founder and Principal Consultant of Kickstand Health Consulting, Laura is dedicated to the success of each client's project. Her goal is to help clients build and sustain effective programs that contribute to healthier, more equitable communities.
Laura has more than a decade of experience in public health. She has led strategic planning for multiple projects and programs and successfully designed and facilitated numerous interactive meetings and trainings. Laura has overseen the development of a range of resources, including guidebooks, videos, websites, e-learning modules, tip sheets, and meeting reports. A skilled project manager, she has directed both federal and foundation grants and managed budgets of up to $1 million. She holds a BA in Government from Wesleyan University and an MPH in Community Health as well as a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago.