Assessment & Landscape Analysis
Understanding complex issues, gathering perspectives, identifying themes, and turning information into actionable insights.
Swenson Strategies
Helping health and human services organizations create clarity, navigate complexity, and move important work forward.
Alicia J. Swenson O'Brien, LCSW, MPA
What I Do
Swenson Strategies partners with health and human services organizations facing complex challenges. Drawing on two decades of experience working with senior leaders across federal healthcare, behavioral health, public health, and human services systems, I help organizations create clarity, align stakeholders, and turn ideas into action.
How I Help
Ways we can work together.
Executive Advisory Support
Supporting leaders as they navigate complex challenges, competing priorities, and important decisions.
Implementation Support & Strategic Initiatives
Helping organizations navigate complex initiatives, coordinate stakeholders, identify barriers, and move important work forward.
Stakeholder Engagement & Convening
Bringing together diverse perspectives to build understanding, alignment, and momentum.
Strategic Planning & Facilitation
Helping organizations clarify priorities, build alignment, and plan for the future.
Areas of Focus
Where I focus my work.
- Behavioral Health
- Human Services
- Rural Health
- Homelessness & Housing Stability
- Children & Families
- Public Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- LCSW + MPA
- 20 years in federal health and human services
- CMS · HRSA · HHS Executive Secretariat · ASPE · VA
About
About Alicia
Alicia J. Swenson O'Brien is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a Master of Public Administration (MPA). For two decades, she has worked at the intersection of policy, programs, and people — helping health and human services organizations move important work forward in the face of real complexity.
Her career spans some of the largest health and human services agencies in the federal government: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the HHS Executive Secretariat, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Across those roles, she has supported senior leaders through high-stakes decisions, coordinated stakeholders across systems that rarely move in unison, and helped translate ambitious goals into work that could actually get done. She brings that experience to every engagement, along with a clinician’s instinct for listening carefully and a deep belief in the people doing this work.
Contact
Let’s talk about the work you’re trying to move.
Share a little about your organization and the questions you’re working through. Alicia will be in touch.
Prefer email or LinkedIn?