Posts tagged Business Planning
Roman Public Health Consulting: 2025 Reflections and 2026 Planning

Happy New Year!

I hear from my blog readers and LinkedIn connections that they really enjoy my annual reflections and business planning for the upcoming year, so I’m happy to make it an annual feature on the blog. I’ll review my business data, highlight key 2025 findings and reflections, and share 2026 plans.

I preface this post by saying that it was an incredibly hard year in public health. We lost many trusted and talented professionals from our workforce. We lost funding for essential services, research, and emerging threats.

This public health landscape strongly impacted my consulting work in 2025.

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RPH ServicesLeah RomanBusiness Planning, Public health, accessibility, Health educationComment
New Podcast Interview Drop: The Power of Specializing (The Biz of Nonprofit Consultants)

Hi friends and followers! I’m excited to share a new podcast interview today.

Natalie Eckdahl was kind enough to invite me onto the Biz of Nonprofit Consultants podcast (Episode #12). I was a huge fan and regular listener to her first pocast (The Biz Chix Podcast), so it was an honor to be invited as a guest early on in the launch of her new podcast! We discussed the changes in my business once I niched and specialized in e-learning instructional design for public health organizations.

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Podcast InterviewLeah RomanBusiness, Business Planning, Public health, consulting, Consultants, New Consultants, PodcastsComment
Roman Public Health Consulting: 2023 Reflections and 2024 Planning

One of my favorite annual traditions since I started my business is to have myself a little end of year “retreat” to review the past year. I block the week from meetings. I put on my out of office and focus exclusively on my business (i.e., I do zero client work). And yay- I get to stand in front of my big white board :)

As we start 2024, I thought readers would be interested in both my process and some of the findings that emerged from this retreat that you can expect to see reflected in what I share and work on this year.

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RPH ServicesLeah Romanconsulting, Business Planning, pricing, Public healthComment
If I Leap, the Net Will Appear, Right?

Today’s guest post “If I Leap, the Net Will Appear, Right?” is written by Joanna Locke, MD, MPH. She is the Principal Consultant at Locke Public Health.

Inspirational stories and quotes about entrepreneurialism abound in our society, with successes enshrined in books and documentaries, news articles and blog posts, the covers of planners and journals. Risk taking can be an attractive proposition. (However, publication bias means that stories about those for whom no net appeared are shared much less frequently). So, how do you decide if the leap is for you?

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Leah RomanNew Consultants, consulting, Professional Development, Business Planning, Guest Post Comment