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Brenda Coleman-Beattie, M.A., Treasurer

Brenda Coleman-Beattie is the CEO and Principal Strategy Consultant with 2Thrive4, a strategy consulting company that provides services for private and public sector organizations and individuals. Additionally, she is a national behavioral health care consultant including a ten-year consultancy to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network on Mental Health Policy Research and a co-author of several publications. As a member of a national evaluation team, she was an evaluator for the Austin, Texas based Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Collaborative Care Grant Initiative and a contributor to their publication Connecting Body & Mind A Resource Guide to Integrated Healthcare in Texas and the United States. She has served as an executive in various organizations locally and throughout the country in the capacity of CEO, COO, and CFO.

Ms. Coleman-Beattie maintains a distinctive record of public service. She was appointed by Central Health to serve on the Austin Travis County Integral Care (ATCIC) Board of Trustees in January 2011. In that capacity, she serves as chair of the ATCIC Planning and Operations Committee and as a liaison to the New Milestones Foundation. In addition, she serves as vice chair of the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work Advisory Council.

She served on the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities as a gubernatorial appointee for ten years serving as board chair from 2008 to 2011 and chair of the project development committee from 2006 to 2008. Additionally, she has served as a member of the boards for the Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Texas and The Austin Project. She has also served in leadership positions with the Austin National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Central Texas African American Family Support Conference.

The Travis County Commissioners Court appointed Ms. Coleman-Beattie to a four-year term on the Board of Managers in January of 2011.