Public-Private Partnerships & Business

We select our consulting teams based specifically on the needs of the client, and on bringing the best and most fitting expertise to a project. Let us introduce to you some of the key partners among our expert practice group teams.

Susan D. Kirby, President, Kirby Marketing Solution
Over 22 years of experience in marketing in the private and public sectors. Susan leads expert team members in public-private partnership research and development. She keeps her toes firmly planted in both the business and public health worlds and finds great opportunities to leverage each other's strengths for winning solutions to health problems.

  • Audience intelligence on businesses to identify business partnerships and powerful benefit messages.
  • Strategic planning, marketing research and development, communication development, and brand identity creation in the private and public sectors.
  • Helps negotiate partnerships and licensing agreements.

Nick Baird
Formerly State Health Officer in Ohio.

  • Strategic management of state health agency
  • Strategic public-private partnership development
  • Leading Healthiest Nation initiative to engage the private sector in a new vision for health in America.

Cynthia Currence
Private-public partnerships with emphasis on the private side.

  • Cause-related Marketing expertise
  • Formerly American Cancer Society (ACS) VP of Marketing, developed and executed corporate partnership program for ACS

David Kirby
Information systems expert in health care and public health agencies.

  • Develops partnerships with corporate information industry through a regional organization that convenes and builds the information industry sector in Research Triangle, NC.

Kay Kahler-Vose
Over 20 years of strategic marketing consulting and program development for the public and private sector.

  • Private-public partnership development
  • Negotiated national partnerships as Director of Social Marketing for Porter Novelli and as Director of Communication for the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids

Bruce Wartel
Systems process improvement expert (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, Reengineering).

  • Public-private sector partnership identification and negotiations
  • Project management and organizational development professional with over 17 years of experience in health care, government, and public policy
  • Expert at developing, designing, and implementing effective organizations in both health care, health, and related busineses


Danie Watson
Over 20 years of experience in creative marketing, branding, and message development for both the public and private sectors.

  • Public-private partnership development
  • Web site, advertising, print, and stakeholder outreach materials development
  • Chair Emeritus of Responsible Minnesota Business and of Business for Social Responsibility Upper Midwest