Join RISE Radio Editorial Director Ilene MacDonald for this 15-minute episode that explores how agile engagement replaces slow, campaign-centric outreach with rapid testing, hyper-personalization, and real-time learning that lower cost of care and raise member trust.
Our guest is Kathleen Ellmore, cofounder and managing partner of Engagys, a health care consumer engagement consulting and advisory services firm, who shares proof points, practical steps, and why 2026 is the moment to act.
About Kathleen Ellmore
Kathleen Ellmore, cofounder and managing partner of Engagys, is one of the earliest pioneers in bringing the best of consumer marketing and data-driven methodologies to health care. Instead of getting you to eat when you are not hungry and buy things you don’t need, Ellmore uses the same strategies to instead change the health equation in America.
Ellmore previously led the consumer engagement consulting practice for Welltok (formerly Silverlink) for 12 years, leveraging its data repository of over a billion consumer health interactions, the best of behavioral economics, and the latest in clinical research, to create evidenced-based communications on what works to drive consumer health care behavior yielding better outcomes and lower costs.
She is often quoted in the trade and national press and is a regular speaker on the national stage, having spent the first 20 years of her career in brand marketing at leading consumer marketing organizations, including General Mills and P&G. She also was a vice president at Digitas, a leading direct marketing firm. Recently she was selected as consultant member of the first ever FDA’s Patient Engagement Advisory Committee.
About Engagys
Founded in 2017, Engagys is a leading health care consumer engagement consulting and advisory services firm. With decades of combined experience in health care and having deployed hundreds of engagement and marketing projects, Engagys has driven significant value in revenue generation, consumer behavior change, and more.