Our passion is helping private and public sector clients to align services and supports to the diverse goals and preferences of people with disability and complex care needs. The partners of Sage Squirrel Consulting are: Yonda Snyder brings a long record as an agent of change, first in public sector organizational design and human capital management and later in the area of policies and programs for older adults. From 2014 until 2018, Ms. Snyder was the Director of Indiana’s state unit on aging. In that role she led Indiana’s efforts to modernize systems of access to LTSS that included a transformation of PASRR, options counseling and assessment processes as part of a No Wrong Door system for older adults in Indiana. Prior to the Division of Aging, Ms. Snyder had extensive experience leading organizational transformation both in the public and private sectors. Yvonne Powell has supported public agencies in more than 30 states, often managing large, multi-year agency strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Sage Squirrel, Ms. Powell was a Senior Vice President and Emerging Markets Strategy Lead for 11 years at Optum Serve Consulting/The Lewin Group. In this role she developed consulting and analytic services to meet the changing needs of federal and state clients. For 14 years, Ms. Powell was the co-owner of Engquist, Pelrine and Powell, a multi-state Medicaid consulting firm specializing in long term care service transformation, Medicaid waivers, health care reform, Medicaid rate setting and litigation support. Erika Robbins, M.A., PMP joined as a partner in 2022 after spending almost eleven years with Optum Serve Consulting directing large scale projects and teams focused on changing the way that people who need long term supports access and use publicly and privately funded health and social services. She formerly worked for Ohio Medicaid responsible for services to approximately 400,000 Ohioans with disabilities.