Michael Moto

About Michael Moto

U.S. Military Veteran/Behavioral Health executive skilled in the navigation of strategic decisions and maintaining financial discipline. Demonstrated commitment to hands-on leadership, resulting in exceptional engagement from employees, clients, and partner organizations. Adept at cultivating relationships and fostering effective communication, leveraging expertise in behavioral health, organizational leadership, contract negotiations, team development, and enhancing visibility for growth. Key strengths encompass strategic planning, budgeting, culture development, optimizing internal operating systems, revenue planning, contract negotiations, administrative efficiency, team building, and issue resolution. Strategic Planning Process Improvement Data Analysis Procurement & Allocation Organizational Assessment Organizational Leadership Expense Reduction Personnel Management Budget Management Skilled Collaborator Solutions Oriented Professional Project Management White Papers Effective Communicator Remote Communication Tools Training and Facilitation Microsoft Office / OSX

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Healing Hands & Hearts Inc

   Jan 2017 — Present · Alexandria, LA, US

   Serves as the CEO of an Outpatient Behavioral Health facility that employees over 10 employees that treated more than 500 clients, netting annual income of over 1 million dollars. Directs the overall organizing, administration, planning, operations, budgeting, and evaluations of activities and programs of the entire organization. Implemented and executed quarterly events to increase client participation in services and loyalty to our brand. Develop and execute the organizations budget. Analyzed expenses on a monthly basis to ensure the organization remained under budget. In doing so, decreased the organizations expenses by 23% over 3-years. Streamlined the process of conducting a client intake, improving the intake time by 50%. Consolidated insurance company requirements and developed a process, to ensure that all paperwork required for provider certification was submitted at one time, increasing the possibility of first-time approval. Managed and controlled the overall planning and coordination of psychiatric services across the facility. Provided supervision and development of all employees through the planning of monthly owner’s meetings, Case Manager supervisions, training meetings, individual counseling sessions, and other plans and controls for maintaining an efficient organization. Established, organized, controlled, and maintained the organizational policies and procedures, to ensure compliance with the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), and Federal and State laws and regulations for Medicaid Services. Responsible for the overall organizing, planning and preparation of annual work plans to ensure that administrative goals and strategies were achieved.

Education

• Sacred Heart University

  MSAP, Industrial / Organizational Psychology

  2011 — 2013

• Tulane University

  Master of Social Work - MSW, Social Work

• Cameron University

  BS, Psychology

  2007 — 2009

• Villanova University

  Master Certificates, Project Management

  2014 — 2014