A healthcare strategist for all your needs.
Our team
Managing Principal
Michelle Ford, MBA
Welcome to Health Strengths, LLC. As the managing principal, I come to you with more than 20 years of executive leadership, transformation, equity diversity and inclusion, experience across several industries, including corporate, non-profit, healthcare and foundations.
Before launching Health Strengths, served as a national thought leader and principal consultant with Health Management and Associates, working with various health ecosystem stakeholders including MCOs, state and local government, community-based organizations, and health systems on a variety of healthcare transformation projects.
Additionally, I served as the national director of Health and Well-Being with the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities (Alliance) and the Council on Accreditation. All while leading efforts to support strengthening the community health worker workforce through community organizations while consulting organizations on how to build organizational capacity to contract with the health industry and developing best practices, necessary systems, and respective policy change.
Through community partnerships with the American Cancer Society in the Midwest division, I have led teams of community health workers in building Community Health Worker Networks and Alliances and trainings across the state. Additionally, I have led diversity trainings regionally and nationally while also managing community partnerships and fund development within federally qualified health systems, native populations and hospital systems.
Currently serving as a national thought leader on several advisory boards, including the Morehouse School of Medicine's National Resiliency Network, Camden Coalition’s National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, Field Coordinating Committee, Social Interventions Research Evaluation Network (SIREN), Root Cause Coalition and the Expert Advisory Group for Raising The Bar through the National Partnership for Women and Families, I bring my invaluable consulting expertise in addressing health equities, disparities and social determinants of health.
I look forward to working with you as we foster an environment of extraordinary change and growth within the healthcare system.
Assistant
Antonia Williams
A servant at heart, Antonia’s passion for providing remarkable customer service to both internal and external customers, is fueled by innovation and creativity.
With over 15 years of administrative skills in a variety of industries, such as hospitality, insurance, law, transportation and healthcare, Antonia specializes in supporting small businesses and “solo-preneurs” with their administrative, customer service, operations, and notarization needs.
Antonia maintained several service roles in the hospitality industry while pursuing both her Associate Degree in Business at Bryant and Stratton College, and Bachelor of Applied Science in Business Management at Cardinal Stritch University.
After acquiring her degrees, Antonia served as a claims service assistant in the auto claims department at State Farm Insurance for seven years. She also established a few family businesses during an extended maternity leave and continued to manage them upon her return to the insurance industry in her role as an administrative professional at Progressive Insurance’s House Counsel office.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, she has fully concentrated her efforts and talents on entrepreneurship and supports others with the same aspirations through her virtual assistant service, AW Solutions.
