A4O collaborates with a diverse team of subject matter expert contractors who bring specialized knowledge and significant professional experience to meet the specific needs of each client. The CEO, COO, CSO, and team of expert contractors have provided practical, tangible, and actionable skills, knowledge, training, capacity-building, and leadership to human service organizations at federal, state and local levels, enhancing the capacity of professionals in 42 counties in North Carolina, 26 state jurisdictions, and five countries. A4O’s contractor team includes 24 subject matter experts, boasting a wide range of experience and education.
The team features two PhDs/DSWs in Social Work, two LCSW’s, eight MSWs, six BSWs, thirteen professionals with master’s degrees in other disciplines, and seven with bachelor’s degrees in psychology or related fields. Together, the A4O Team brings 650 years of collective experience in roles such as social workers across all program areas, supervisors, managers, administrators, NC DHHS Executive Leaders, DSS and HHS directors, COOs and County fiscal directors, CQI Directors, Economic Services Directors, State consultants, leaders of non-profit and for-profit organizations, project managers, and CWIS technology consultants across federal, state, and local government and private sectors.
By leveraging this subject matter expertise and experience, A4O ensures that partner organizations benefit from exceptional partnership, leadership, and creative solutions through consultation, training, and hands-on observation of field practices with families, supervisors, managers, and leaders. Through leadership practice observations, our team emphasizes integrating technical/managerial skills with leadership practices to improve trust and psychological safety, observation, feedback loops, and cross-organization, multi-level workforce capacity-building. The team will collaborate closely with your County and/or your organization’s Leadership Team, customizing services to meet specific goals and aligning the most qualified consultant with each area of need to drive meaningful change and improvement toward achieving outcomes.
