Hartnick Consulting pulls together teams of senior-level people on an "as-needed basis," so that we can provide you with the business solutions you need...without the overhead costs of a big agency.

Our teams always include Kate Hartnick Elliott, Hartnick Consulting's President and Founder, and often include additional creative, event management, interactive development or strategic personnel:

Alissa Levin

Alissa Levin is the Principal and Founder of Hartnick Consulting partner agency Point Five Design, a studio and design consultancy known for its work with non-profit, publishing and progressive organizations. Prior to founding Point Five in 1997, Levin was the lead designer for the Santa Monica Museum of Art, overseeing exhibition, institution and newsletter design. Levin is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and attended RISD's European Honors Program in Rome.

Hartnick Consulting is currently partnering with Point Five on a project for 20,000 Dialogues, the outreach arm of the Unity Productions Foundation.

Lori Greenberg

Lori Greenberg has been a graphic designer and creative director for over 20 years. Her design and writing have appeared on the pages of WWD, W, and Woman's Day; and also in the books East Village '85, SOHO: A Guide, A Documentary, and Land & Sea: The Indonesian Archipelago. Clients have included Disney, Mattel, Warner Bros, Viacom, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wolf-Gordon, FNY (Furniture New York), Fire & Water Lighting, Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, and the Municipal Art Society.

Greenberg, who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, has served as Creative Lead on Hartnick Consulting's Thiagi Group, PACE: Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement, NewYork-Presbyterian, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Asian American Business Development Center, and Arcadia Aviation assignments.

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Regan Healey

Regan Healey is the Event Lead on Hartnick Consulting's NewYork-Presbyterian team and was previously a member of Hartnick Consulting's John Jay College of Criminal Justice and United Way of New York City teams.

Healey, who began her event planning career at Goldman Sachs, has also planned and managed numerous events for the New York Hall of Science, the Harlem Episcopal School and Bank Street College of Education. She received her BA in Political Philosophy, Public Policy and Organizational Theory from U.C. Berkeley.

Tammy Parrish

Tammy Parrish was a member of the Hartnick teams for both the 2007 Virtual Groundbreaking of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell's Advanced Therapeutic Services Center and the 2006 Groundbreaking of the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Heart Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.

She was previously the Special Events Manager for the Campaign for Planned Parenthood - a $340 million Capital Campaign for all 120 Planned Parenthood affiliates and the national office. Additionally, Parrish has planned and managed events across the United States and Canada for the National Academy Foundation, Save the Children, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society/New York Chapter, St. John's University, the Independent Film & Television Alliance, UCLA School of Public Affairs, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the London School of Economics Foundation; and served as a member of the event team for Seeds of Peace, Village Care of New York and the New Philanthropy Group. Parrish received her BFA from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.

Brooke Bessert

Brooke Bessert serves as a bridge between in-house marketing and technology staffs, helping clients such as Salomon Brothers, People, Morgan Stanley, Conde Nast, Business Week, Best Buy, Bertelsmann, and Bacardi harness the power of interactivity to increase the profitability of their traditional business units.

Ms. Bessert, who received her BS in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in Marketing, has developed Web sites, e-mails and banners for Hartnick Consulting clients including United Way of New York City, the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, The New School, and The Human Resource Planning Society.

Don Pavlish

Don Pavlish, who has a BFA in Film and Television from NYU, built his first website before Microsoft released its first web browser and sent video streaming across the Internet at a time when most Americans had never laid eyes on a DVD. Since that time, he has built scores of sites for clients including All State Home Mortgage, Analiza (biotech), Davis & Young, Dynamis Advisors, and Lowe Eklund Wakefield & Mulvihill.

Pavlish first worked with Kate Hartnick Elliott close to a decade ago, when they were both employees of Nicholson NY. Elliott continued to use Pavlish's services when she was at FEED Magazine, for which magazine Pavlish created a Silver Addy-winning Interactive ad campaign; at i-traffic, for which agency Pavlish created numerous Flash campaigns; and at Hartnick Consulting, where Pavlish served as Web Co-Lead and Lead respectively for the firm's New School and Arcadia Aviation work. Back to top.

Ruth Jarmul

Ruth Jarmul has extensive experience helping nonprofit and Fortune 500 organizations alike to improve performance. In a consulting engagement for the Calvert Foundation, she conducted the due diligence related to Public Radio Capital's loan fund. Jarmul has also recently completed assignments for the Calvert Foundation/Media Development Loan Fund, Girl Scouts USA and the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (a $90 million agency).

Ruth received a BA, cum laude, from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Previously, she served as co-head of the media practice of the Mitchell Madison Group, a 700-consultant firm founded by partners of McKinsey.