CHC Insights Consulting Services
Supporting clients engaged in transformative systems change
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At CHC Insights, we specialize in supporting clients engaged in transformative systems change by providing insights from an ecological-systems perspective--an approach that illuminates interdependence within and across social systems.
We tailor consulting services to the unique needs of each professional, collaborative team, and partnering organization we support.
Professional Biography
Professional Biography
Professional Biography
Catherine “Cathey” Huddleston-Casas is a leading systems-level thinker who makes complex ideas clear and accessible.
She has built a career on the belief that the most powerful insights emerge when the right people are in the same room. A systems thinker at heart, she has spent more than 25 years bringing together stakeholders who don't ty
Catherine “Cathey” Huddleston-Casas is a leading systems-level thinker who makes complex ideas clear and accessible.
She has built a career on the belief that the most powerful insights emerge when the right people are in the same room. A systems thinker at heart, she has spent more than 25 years bringing together stakeholders who don't typically exchange ideas and helping them discover what they have to offer one another.
Known for her talent for finding common language across sectors, Cathey translates complex research into actionable strategies that move people and systems forward. She has convened coalitions, partnered with state legislators, and guided nonprofit and government leaders through some of the most challenging work there is: transforming the systems that support children and families.
Cathey currently serves as a Senior Technical Assistance Specialist at the National Early Care and Education Workforce Center where she works alongside state leaders to reimagine workforce policy systems.
As an Associate Director at the University of Nebraska’s Buffett Early Childhood Institute, Cathey created Nebraska’s Early Childhood Funding Map — a first-of-its-kind interactive tool that demystifies the layered, often opaque world of public early childhood investment and puts that knowledge in the hands of advocates, policymakers, and communities.
Her career spans academic research, federal policy that includes a Congressional Fellowship with U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, and over a decade of applied leadership in early childhood systems at the University of Nebraska. Cathey holds a Ph.D. in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota.
Whether she’s facilitating a coalition, advising a state agency, or helping a team find its footing, Cathey shows up as a connector, a listener, and a guide. She’s most at home in the midst of emergence and she loves authentically engaging others in the journey.