Meg Kabat

Strategic Advisor

Meg Kabat is the Founder and President of Kabat Consulting. She brings over 30 years of experience in veteran-centered clinical care, public service, and national health policy to her role as Senior Consultant at Red Duke Strategies. A licensed clinical social worker and certified case manager, Meg is widely recognized for her leadership in supporting service members, Veterans, caregivers, and military families through direct practice and transformative system-level change.

Meg previously served as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)—the nation’s second-largest federal agency and largest integrated health care system. During her fourteen-year tenure at the VA, she also served as Principal Senior Advisor and Senior Advisor for Families, Caregivers, and Survivors, and from 2011–2019, as Deputy Director and then National Director of the VA Caregiver Support Program. Her leadership was instrumental in advancing access to critical services, including the expansion of caregiver support, reproductive health services for women Veterans, implementation of the historic PACT Act, and a significant reduction in unhoused Veterans.

In addition to her federal leadership, Meg served as a Senior Director at Atlas Research, where she supported the U.S. Department of Defense’s Sexual Assault Prevention Office (SAPRO) and co-led the COVID Nursing Home Commission for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), helping shape national recommendations to protect vulnerable populations during the pandemic.
Meg began her federal career as a civilian social worker and case manager with the United States Navy at the National Naval Medical Center in 2003 and quickly rose to positions of leadership due to her dedication to the military community. She holds a BA in Psychology from the College of the Holy Cross and an MSW from The Catholic University of America.

Meg also serves on the Board of Directors of Our Military Kids, a nonprofit that empowers military children through extracurricular activity grants during a parent’s deployment or recovery from combat-related injuries.