The combination of Sarah Godley and Angela Swanson in Confluence Consulting is exciting to see and offers great benefit to the clients who will work with them. I worked closely with both Sarah and Angela during my years at Children’s Colorado. Each brings tremendous experience, insight, commitment, and lots of “elbow grease” to their work. They will get the job done and help any partner achieve great results. I would work with them in a nanosecond given the opportunity.

Sarah has been an essential consultant to our quality and safety programs at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She helped us develop a vision for two specific programs – our diagnostic safety program and our communication/reconciliation program. Sarah has an in-depth appreciation for healthcare quality/safety and expertise in the pediatric domain of healthcare. She quickly develops relationships with institutional leaders and partners to deliver results. She is always on top of the project and has the vision to anticipate roadblocks and address them in advance. We hope to work with her again!

I have worked with Angela on numerous initiatives spanning the payor and provider spectrum. Angela has astute abilities to guide strategy and translate the vision into operational success. Her outstanding listening skills coupled with a strong data driven framework quickly lay out a thorough analysis of the work and actionable tactics to execute the strategy and achieve results. She successfully engages external stakeholders, leadership, clinicians and team members across all levels of the organization and within diverse organizational cultures. I highly recommend Angela.

Angela Swanson is one of the most brilliant health care thinkers I have had the pleasure of working with in my 30+ years in health care. She comes from a strong background of improvement in complex adaptive health care systems, and has demonstrated that she can not only think through the problems, but can organize and implement change with incredible expertise. She combines extensive knowledge and intellect with a strong emotional IQ. This allows Ms. Swanson to create genuine long lasting relationships that fuel sustained improvements across all domains of health care quality. I am incredibly excited that she and Sarah Godley have joined forces, as this is truly a dream team.

We engaged Confluence Health Consulting to facilitate the development of a comprehensive proposal for establishing the first maternal-child focused center for opioid research. Angela and Sarah at CHC demonstrated exceptional expertise and efficiency throughout the process. They quickly organized the workflow, engaged key contributors, identified and addressed critical gaps, and integrated complex content with precision, all while adhering to extremely tight deadlines.

Their remarkable efforts played a pivotal role in the successful submission of the proposal and the subsequent award of $50 million in opioid settlement funds to Arkansas Children’s. This funding was instrumental in creating the National Center for Opioid Research and Clinical Effectiveness (NCOR).

I highly recommend Confluence Health Consulting for their outstanding capability in managing and executing high-stakes projects with exceptional professionalism and effectiveness.

Sarah is a thoughtful and diplomatic business, non-profit, and healthcare consultant. We recently partnered with her on a 5-year strategic plan to drive forward a comprehensive approach to strengthening our work in community health and advocacy. I learned so much during the process and was grateful for Sarah’s positive energy during tough decisions, wealth of knowledge of the healthcare system, and passion for developing strategies rooted in making life better for communities we serve.