Hi, I’m Valerie Striplin

I’m an MPH-trained public health strategist and the person organizations call when the work is important, but something isn’t moving.

I built BrightWing Strategies because I kept finding myself in the same room. The room where everyone is committed. Where the mission is real. Where there’s funding, staff, and community need. And where somehow, things are still stuck.

I know that room because I’ve been in it from almost every angle.

As an executive-level coordinator inside a major health system, helping rebuild a cancer service line from the inside. As board president of a community nonprofit at a critical growth moment, where the organization had a real mission and real opportunity, but needed the infrastructure to match. As a program strategist working across evaluation, grants, and operations at the same time.

What I’ve learned across all of it: the problem is almost never what people think it is at first.

The thing you bring to the table is usually the surface. Underneath it is something about structure, or clarity, or how decisions get made, or the gap between what’s been agreed on and what’s actually operational. My job is to find that gap. And then help you fill it.

I work in the space between leadership and execution. I’m not here to replace your team or run your organization. I’m here to build the conditions that let your team do what they came to do.

That means getting in it with you. Building the actual things. Budget frameworks. Grant tracking systems. Board training. Coordination structures that finally make the collaboration work.

And then I step back. Because the goal is never dependence. Its capacity.

I hold a Master of Public Health and bring experience across healthcare systems, nonprofit governance, grant strategy, community coalition work, and organizational development. I also serve as Executive Director of the Oregon Public Health Association, which means I am actively embedded in the public health landscape I work to support.

I am based in Vancouver, Washington, and work with organizations across Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.

If something here resonates, I’d love to talk .This isn’t just a business—it’s a reflection of what we believe in. We’re here to create work that matters, led by a shared commitment to quality and care.