Deb Helber

Deb Helber is a strategic planner who retired in 2004 from The Ohio State University Medical Center where she served as the Chief of Staff for Corporate Shared Services and supported planning at the medical center, including strategic planning, business line planning and business development.

Since her retirement from Ohio State, Deb has found rewarding and impactful work with community organizations/corporations that are focused on building healthier communities. She has partnered with organizations working in health/health care, homelessness, housing, education, food/nutrition, bio-products, and many others. She uses her skills around planning and designing, hosting and facilitating, and harvesting to bring multi-stakeholder groups together to focus on building healthier communities. Her work includes developing strategic plans and business plans for communities and organizations; finding consensus and clarity around community and organizational needs and discovering shared purposes and collaborative opportunities/possibilities for improving the health of communities and organizations. She also works with groups to identify opportunities to be more effective and efficient in providing services in the community as well as providing project management support.

Deb is a core group member and project coordinator of the Our Optimal Health project, a complex and multi-layered effort aimed at co-creating a new healthcare system. With a core group of community leaders, she is also part of a “community of practitioners” in Columbus, convening and hosting community conversations as a way to address the complex social issues that face many urban centers right now. She is also a Steward of the Art of Hosting. She holds a B.A. in Education and a Masters in Health Administration.