Jim Bialick
Founder + Principal
Jim Bialick, MA, is a policy strategist who helps leaders assess evidence, navigate public policy, and move decisions into practice. He brings more than twenty years of experience across healthcare, human services, philanthropy, business, and government.
His expertise includes health technology and patient safety; early childhood education and child care; maternal and early childhood mental health, including maternal mental health; paid family and medical leave; and AI policy for services in sensitive settings.
His advocacy has contributed to three federal laws. Through the Newborn Coalition, his work contributed to 27 state laws requiring critical congenital heart disease screening. He has drafted federal regulatory submissions and twice testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee.
CURRENT WORK
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP
TRC Assist Inc. — Fractional Chief Financial Officer
TrustedRide Certified LLC — Chief Executive Officer
COMMUNITY AND BOARD SERVICE
Pine Lake Potential Tutoring — Proprietor
YMCA Sammamish — Community Board Member
Wave Crest Innovations — Board Member
Let’s Play Pickleball — Board Member
2024–PRESENT
PHILANTHROPY AND MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH — SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
From 2022 to 2024, Jim was a Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at Perigee Fund, where he managed a $2.5 million national portfolio and helped secure nearly $1 million for mental-health initiatives.
The role deepened his understanding of how funders, grantees, advocates, and policymakers weigh evidence, risk, strategy, and progress. It also reinforced a lesson that carries into his consulting work: a funding case can be ambitious without overstating what the evidence shows.
Jay Inslee
Colin Allred
Katie Hobbs
2022
2019
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, CAREGIVING, AND WORKPLACE POLICY — WASHINGTON, DC
At ZERO TO THREE, Jim worked on early childhood education, child care, infant and early childhood mental health, paid family and medical leave, the Child Tax Credit, home visiting, and child-abuse prevention.
Paid leave spans family policy, labor law, workplace standards, economic security, and gender equality. During the pandemic, Jim helped coalitions secure federal relief for children, families, caregivers, and workers.
Hybrid advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Early childhood advocacy on Capitol Hill
Bipartisan advocacy on Capitol Hill
PATIENT SAFETY — IRVINE, CALIFORNIA
As president of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, Jim worked with hospitals, medical-technology companies, researchers, government leaders, and patient advocates to reduce preventable harm.
During his tenure, more than 1,600 healthcare organizations committed to implementing patient-safety protocols. The organization reported that participating commitments helped save more than 24,500 lives in 2015. Those are organizational results, not individual attribution.
Joe Biden
Former President Bill Clinton
Former President Jimmy Carter + Jason Carter
2014
2010
NEWBORN SCREENING AND HEALTH POLICY — WASHINGTON, DC
At the Newborn Foundation and Newborn Coalition, Jim helped lead advocacy for critical congenital heart disease screening. As the Coalition’s co-founder and executive director, he testified in two 2013 House Health Subcommittee hearings on mobile health tools and patient-centered, risk-based regulation of health software (March hearing; November hearing).
His coalition work contributed to drafting and passage of 27 state laws requiring CCHD screening. After the federal recommendation, he advised campaigns on how those mandates would fit state newborn-screening systems.
Testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives
Launch of the Newborn Foundation with Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN)
Neonatal intensive care unit site visit — Chengdu, China
GENETIC ALLIANCE · HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Jim served as Health Information Systems Coordinator and coauthored a study of patient registries and biobanks. The study examined vendor selection, deidentified data, and barriers to sharing information and recontacting participants (Genetic Alliance annual report; published study).
Newborn Screening Summit — Rabat, Morocco
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH — OAXACA, MEXICO
Jim began his career in Oaxaca, Mexico, working with community partners on clean water and nutrition. It left him with a principle that still guides his work: public-health strategies are stronger and more durable when communities help define both the problem and the solution.
Community clinic gathering — Vicente Guerrero, Mexico
Community museum ceremony — San Martín Huamelúlpam, Mexico
2005
EDUCATION
• Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Boston University
• Master of Arts in Government, Johns Hopkins University
WORK WITH JIM
For evidence-heavy decisions, The Room Test is a focused, two-week review of one important piece of work and the decision it needs to support.
For AI-enabled companies in sensitive settings, Jim can focus on the policy and stakeholder questions around a product launch, partnership, or market decision.
Broader policy, implementation, or leadership work can follow when it is useful. Scope, deliverables, timing, and fees are agreed in writing.