Meet the Founder

Adjani Jenkins-Lemar, LSW
Founder & CEO, AJL Consulting Group

About Adjani

Adjani Jenkins-Lemar is a licensed social worker, healthcare systems educator, consultant, and program developer. She founded AJL Consulting Group to help individuals, families, professionals, and organizations better understand complex systems, make informed decisions, and identify practical paths forward.

Her professional background spans emergency and trauma care, inpatient and outpatient services, primary care, rehabilitation, long-term care, chronic disease management, and community-based healthcare. Working across these environments, she repeatedly encountered a common challenge: individuals and families were expected to navigate complicated processes, coordinate services, understand coverage, and make consequential decisions without necessarily having the information or guidance needed to do so effectively.

These experiences informed the development of AJL’s healthcare systems literacy approach, which emphasizes clarity, responsibility, oversight, accountability, and practical follow-through.

As Founder & CEO, Adjani leads AJL’s work in healthcare navigation, professional education and training, organizational consulting, and resource development. Her work includes developing educational presentations, practical tools, training materials, and structured approaches that help individuals and organizations translate complex information into informed action.

She is also the creator of Little Choices, an educational resource brand under AJL Consulting Group focused on developing accessible, low-stimulation visual supports and practical tools for early learners, caregivers, educators, and service providers.

Through her work, Adjani brings together direct service experience, systems-level analysis, educational design, and organizational problem-solving to support clearer processes, stronger understanding, and more effective decision-making.

A Track Record of Building What’s Missing

Across her career, Adjani has repeatedly developed practical solutions where usable systems, processes, or resources did not yet exist. Her work has included creating operational guidance for complex healthcare processes, developing regulatory workflows and reference systems for social-services operations, and building a diabetes intervention program from grant criteria into an operational model of care. The diabetes program was later reported to have surpassed its fiscal-year A1C goal.

Her independent resource development has followed the same pattern: identify a practical need, build something usable, and make that knowledge transferable. Resources she has independently developed have been purchased by customers in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

AJL Consulting Group brings that longstanding builder approach into an organization she owns- combining systems analysis, healthcare education, program development, and practical resource design.

Adjani’s Approach

Understand the Context
Listen first and establish what is actually happening before defining the problem.

Identify the Underlying Problem
Distinguish the presenting concern from the underlying issue that needs to be addressed.

Establish Ownership and Authority
Determine who holds responsibility, who has decision-making authority, and where accountability sits.

Separate Policy from Practice
Distinguish formal policy, established procedures, actual practice, and individual discretion.

Identify Constraints and Gaps
Examine what is preventing a process, program, or situation from functioning as intended.

Evaluate Available Mechanisms
Identify relevant options, oversight structures, escalation pathways, and other mechanisms that can move an issue forward.

Determine What Evidence Is Needed
Clarify what documentation, data, or other information is necessary to understand or address the issue.

Examine Administrative Burden
Identify where responsibilities are being shifted and determine who appropriately owns the work.

Translate Analysis into Action
Organize findings into clear decisions, recommendations, and practical next steps.