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Jesse Sieger-Walls, Phd, MSW, LCSW

Owner & Managing Principal
Wellbeing in Action
St. Louis, Missouri

Jesse Sieger-Walls is the Managing Principal of Wellbeing in Action and co-author of the National Council’s Organizational Analytics Capability Model (OACM) Self-Assessment Handbook. A social worker and health outcomes evaluator, Jesse leads multidisciplinary teams that help behavioral health organizations and public systems find clarity in complexity—and keep it.
Wellbeing in Action’s mission fits in one breath: find clear insight, make room for hard choices, do what matters. Jesse brings that approach to strategy, evaluation, and improvement work that is rigorous enough to trust and practical enough to adopt. Jesse partners with leaders and frontline teams to design evaluations that answer real operational questions, integrate claims and EHR data, and build continuous quality improvement (CQI) into everyday practice—so improvements show up in outcomes, workflows, and staff experience, not just reports.
Jesse is known for helping FQHCs and CCBHCs move from compliance-driven reporting to learning: naming reality plainly, defining problems honestly, clarifying tradeoffs, and identifying the next step teams can execute. Jesse is most proud when clients describe a community needs assessment as “hard to read” for the right reasons—candid, fair, and specific enough to challenge the status quo and spark improvement. Just as importantly, Jesse designs the work so communities feel heard and willing to collaborate: tribal partners see their priorities represented with respect, and family members often report they “found their voice” and are better positioned to co-design the local systems serving them and their children.
In addition to analytics and CQI, Jesse supports organizations with grantsmanship and grant services, facilitating grant development and strengthening project design, implementation plans, and the internal structures needed to manage and learn from grant-funded initiatives over time. Jesse has led teams that support the development and expansion of crisis services, including sobering and crisis stabilization efforts, offering practical operational, clinical, and financial guidance to help communities design services that work in real-world conditions.

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