About Us

ChangeMavens LLC combines strategic insight with hands-on operational experience. We help organizations move complex work forward. More than advice, this is a collaborative partnership. We work alongside your team with real-world experience, understanding day-to-day pressures like staffing, team effectiveness, and sustainable funding. Engagements are tailored to your needs, whether serving as a consultant, facilitator, or an extension of your team.

Clients Partner With Us To:

  • Strengthen workforce capacity to meet emerging needs

  • Launch new initiatives to ensure timely and effective start up and improved implementation

  • Navigate organizational or funding transitions to position your organization for future success and sustainability

  • Improve collaboration across teams and partners to increase and better align resources to achieve goals

  • Design practical, high-impact learning experiences to ensure your workforce can integrate what they learn into everyday practice.

  • Build sustainable systems and processes that improve communication, enhance workflow and solve problems

  • Move strategic plans into action ensuring outcomes occur in a timely manner

     

Our People

  • Principal Consultant

    Chelsey Goddard is a seasoned prevention leader, public health expert and co-founder of Change Mavens, with three decades of experience designing innovative and practical change solutions for federal, state, and community-level teams and agency leaders. She specializes in translating prevention knowledge into effective practices and effectively integrating health equity and population-based practices into strategic and workforce development plans. Additionally, she has coached and mentored new and emerging leaders. She has a long track record of forging innovative cross-sector partnerships to build leadership and achieve transformative change. Chelsey was the director of two national training and technical assistance centers—the Center for the Application of Prevention Technology (CAPT) and the Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center (SPTAC)—serving community and state grantees across the country. 

  • Principal Consultant

    Carol Oliver is a nationally recognized prevention leader, public health consultant, and co-founder of Change Mavens. She specializes in helping systems address complex health challenges and build effective, sustainable public health workforces. Known for translating complex ideas into clear, actionable strategies, Ms. Oliver brings a strong track record of designing collaborative processes that foster meaningful engagement, shared decision-making, and movement to action. She has extensive experience providing training and technical assistance at both the community and state levels. Her leadership roles include serving as director of a regional training and technical assistance center in Massachusetts and overseeing training and technical assistance for two national centers, including the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies and the State Prevention Technical Center, where she currently works part-time.

  • When needed, Change Mavens will engage partner consultants to best meet the needs of our clients. This could include public health, prevention, communications, evaluation, and other subject matter experts. Partner consultants will never be brought onto a project without the express consent of the client.

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