Our Team
Megan Shultz
Founder and Principal Owner
Megan Shultz is a strategic community architect known for turning bold ideas into working systems.
With more than two decades of nonprofit leadership experience, Megan specializes in building cross-sector initiatives that move beyond conversation and into coordinated action. She sees patterns in complex systems, aligns unlikely partners, and builds infrastructure that lasts.
After serving 15 years as Executive Director of CASA of Lane County, Megan founded MSH Consulting Northwest to expand her impact across education, housing, behavioral health, and community systems. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy, implementation, and relationship-building.
She currently leads the 15th Night movement, a model to prevent and end youth homelessness, overseeing a team of nine staff members and coordinating efforts across school districts, public agencies, healthcare partners, and nonprofits throughout Lane County and beyond.
Megan is known for:
Building sustainable infrastructures | Aligning funding streams and reducing duplication | Translating vision into operational plans | Moving initiatives from pilot to scale
Her philosophy is simple: communities already have extraordinary resources — the key is aligning them with urgency, clarity, and shared accountability.
She builds systems that make that alignment possible.
Iris Bicksler
Traditional Health Worker Consultant
Iris Bicksler helps organizations move complex initiatives forward through community collaboration, strategic planning, and systems change. She works with stakeholders across sectors to align funding, policy, and practice, translating big ideas into actionable strategies that support community-driven solutions and strengthen community-based care.
Iris brings expertise in Oregon’s Traditional Health Worker workforce and Medicaid system, including policy development, workforce strategy, program implementation, Medicaid billing, and contract development. Through her consulting practice, MSH Consulting NW, she partners with school districts, community colleges, community-based organizations, and healthcare providers to design and implement Traditional Health Worker programs, develop training curricula, negotiate Medicaid contracts, and build billing infrastructure. She also supports facilitation, advocacy, and implementation efforts that help initiatives move from vision to lasting impact.
Previously, Iris served as Senior Traditional Health Worker Liaison at PacificSource Health Plans, where she led statewide workforce development strategy and expanded Doula, Community Health Worker, and Peer Support contracts. In that role, she helped implement innovative payment models and expand access to culturally responsive care for Medicaid members.
Earlier in her career, Iris supervised Traditional Health Worker programs in affordable housing, coordinated services in a school-based health center, and co-founded and led the nonprofit Doulas Supporting Teens.
Iris is also a recognized leader in maternal health. She serves as Board President of the Oregon Doula Association, co-facilitates the statewide Doula Learning and Action Collaborative, contributes to the Institute for Medicaid Innovation’s National Maternal Health Coalition, and serves on the Oregon Health Authority’s Traditional Health Worker Commission Payment Model Subcommittee.
Iris earned her Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Oregon in 2000 and holds certifications as a Birth Doula, Community Health Worker, and Peer Support Specialist. A lifelong Oregonian, she lives in Eugene with her husband and their rescue dog, Charlie Brown, and is the proud parent of two grown children.
