Many Voices, One Direction
The story behind Morel Collective
Morel Collective is an independent project management consultancy. It serves healthcare and life sciences marketing, communications, and creative operations teams doing complex, regulated work, and, through them, the people their work is meant to reach.
Morel is founder Mariela Morel’s family name. She is one of three daughters, and the last in her generation to bear it, so she chose to keep it going in a different way: by building a company around the name and the values she holds closest.
That matters in healthcare, where every project has real stakes and is its own small community: marketers and communicators, clinicians and medical reviewers, regulatory and legal teams, operations and IT, outside partners, and the leaders who make the final call.
Morel and Collective, together, describe the approach: rooted in commitment, and built around the people who make each project possible.
Morel is her history, but Collective is what she believes in. Growing up between cultures, Mariela learned early what it feels like to be new in the room, and how much changes when someone makes space for you. She carried that into every team she joined. People do their best when they feel they belong to something shared, and Collective is her commitment to making that space for others.
Our core values
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Honesty
Tell the truth, always.
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Integrity
Do what’s right, even when no one is watching.
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Accountability
Own every outcome.
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Courage
Be yourself and speak up when it matters.
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Excellence
Act with purpose and hold the work to a high standard.
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Respect
Value every person and perspective.
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Empathy
Listen first and lead with kindness.
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Curiosity
Ask questions, keep learning and finding better ways.
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Optimism
Look for what’s possible, especially when it’s hard.
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Community
Lift others up and always pay it forward.
Who Morel Collective serves
Morel Collective supports teams across hospitals and health systems, health plans, public health, pharma and biotech, medical devices, diagnostics, and health technology.
As an independent consultancy with no competing creative agenda, Morel Collective can work inside your team or alongside your agencies and partners.
The person behind the plan
Mariela Morel has spent a decade leading marketing, communications, and launch work across healthcare.
Some of it reached patients and communities directly, through multilingual health campaigns and programming. Much of it happened behind the scenes: launching new services, managing vendors and budgets, and replacing manual processes with simpler, more reliable systems.
Mariela is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and a 2025 recipient of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Spark Award. She holds a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and History from Connecticut College. She also completed the Data Strategy program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Let’s work together
Planning something new, or already in the thick of it? Share what you’re working on, and find out whether Morel Collective is the right fit.