Elizabith Waetzing, JD, us a Founding Partner and CEO with Change Matrix, LLC, a women-owned small business that motivates, manages and measures change to support systems that improve lives. CM partners with individuals, organizations and systems as they define, create, measure, and sustain change. She brings substantive experience in the areas of children’s mental health, a public health approach to mental health, early childhood systems, culturally responsive and equitable evaluation, child welfare, cultural and linguistic competence, conflict engagement, change management, youth engagement and systems building.
Currently Elizabeth serves as the Director of Partnerships and TA for the National Technical Assistance and Training Center for the Mental Health of Children, Youth, and Families and serves on the Leadership team for the Early Childhood Systems Technical Assistance Coordinating Center and the 988 Crisis Response TTAC in addition to supporting the work of other training and technical assistance centers. She also co-directs Expanding the Bench and Transforming Academia for Equity.
Elizabeth is particularly focused on leadership in change, has developed a leading through change framework used across multiple initiatives and has managed the Collaboration LAB since 2009 to increase the capacity of individuals and organizations to collaborate, uniquely tailoring support to build their collaborative structure, conflict engagement interventions to repair their structure and coaching to further the growth and learning from training.
