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Preserve Consulting L.L.C.
Our Team
Meet the People Behind Preserve Consulting Our team brings decades of leadership in behavioral health, substance use treatment, recovery support, and justicesystem integration. We combine operational expertise with lived experience — and we listen between the lines to understand the realities our partners face.
John Welsh
Founder, Senior Consultant
SUD / Recovery Support Peer Specialist & Behavioral Health Operations
John’s work embodies Preserve Consulting’s mission: strengthening the connections between helpers so individuals and families can access recovery, stability, and long-term wellness. With almost 20 years of leadership in Texas’s recovery support landscape—and a successful executive career in the private sector before that—John brings a rare blend of operational discipline, financial expertise, and lived experience in long-term recovery.
John worked with Lifetime Recovery from 2012-2023 and served as the Chief Operating Officer beginning in 2015, leading one of South Texas’s longest-standing behavioral health and substance use treatment organizations. Drawing on his background in corporate leadership with CenturyLink/Qwest Communications for over ten years, he brought strong financial stewardship, business organization, and strategic forecasting to the agency’s operations.
During his tenure at Lifetime Recovery, John played a key instrumental role—in partnership with Bexar County Commissioners Court and county administrators—in planning, fundraising, and overseeing the transformation of Lifetime’s aging 60 bed men’s residential facility into a new $16 million, 120+ bed residential treatment campus serving both men and women. This project expanded regional capacity, modernized care environments, and strengthened the continuum of services available to individuals’ seeking recovery.
John also played a foundational role in developing one of the first Recovery Support Teams in the State of Texas, created in partnership with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). This early pilot established standards and practices that continue to guide peer support services across the state today.
His operational leadership extends to managing large, complex public funding portfolios, including:
- Federal U.S. Probation Office grants of approximately $750,000 annually
- State and BeWell Texas grants totaling approximately $4 million annually
- Bexar County Judicial Services contracts totaling approximately $1.5 million annually
These funding streams supported residential treatment, outpatient services, and peer-based recovery coaching programs. John’s record reflects strong fiscal stewardship, consistent compliance, and a clear ability to align resources with measurable outcomes.
Beyond his professional roles, John has been deeply engaged in the recovery community. He has served on multiple boards, including Lifetime Recovery, local recovery organizations, and the TPC San Antonio Advisory Committee. As a longtime leader in ACTS Recovery Retreats and a person in recovery for twenty years, John continues to mentor, support, and walk alongside individuals seeking a new path.
Today, John brings his experience to Preserve Consulting, where he helps public and private partners design recovery-oriented systems that connect treatment, peer support, and community resources. His work strengthens the continuum of care and advances the belief that recovery is not a program—it is a community effort.
John is married to Shannon, a retired teacher in the Comal Independent School District. Their daughter, McKinlee, is a West Point graduate with two daughters. John is also an avid golfer and a proud advocate for recovery in all its forms.
John attended the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
At Preserve Consulting, John helps us advance what we believe at our core:
When helpers are connected, communities heal.
Michael Lozito
Senior Consultant
Criminal Justice & Behavioral Health Systems
Michael’s career reflects the heart of Preserve Consulting’s mission: connecting helpers across systems so individuals and families can access the care, stability, and hope they deserve. With more than 30 years of experience bridging criminal justice, behavioral health, and recovery-oriented services, Michael brings a systems builder’s mindset to every project we undertake.
Throughout his career, Michael has worked at intersections where people too often fall through the cracks. From his early roles in pre-trial and youth services to his leadership as Regional Director for South Texas Parole Operations, he has consistently focused on creating pathways that link supervision, treatment, and community support.
As Director of the Office of Criminal Justice, Policy, Planning & Programs for Bexar County, Michael led one of the most comprehensive justice behavioral health portfolios in Texas. His work advanced the kind of cross-sector collaboration that defines Preserve’s approach, including:
- Strengthening partnerships between law enforcement, clinicians, and emergency medical teams to divert people in crisis toward care
- Expanding pretrial, reentry, and problem solving court programs that connect individuals to treatment and recovery supports
- Building integrated intake and assessment processes that bring public defenders,
prosecutors, and mental health professionals together at the point of arrest
- Coordinating countywide behavioral health planning that secured $38 million in ARPA funding to expand community-based services
- Supporting multidisciplinary 911 response models that prioritize safety, stabilization, and connection to care
Michael’s leadership has helped position Bexar County as a national model for collaborative justice behavioral health innovation. His contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Texas Corrections Association’s Outstanding Adult Corrections Administrator Award, CrossPoint’s Master Builder Award, and the Lifetime Recovery Lifetime Achievement Award.
Today, Michael continues this work as a Senior Fellow for Diversion and Behavioral Health Programs with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute and as part of the Preserve Consulting team. He partners with counties, providers, and community organizations to design systems where mental health, substance use treatment, and justice services work together—not in silos.
Michael is a graduate of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.
At Preserve Consulting, Michael helps us advance what we believe at our core:
When helpers are connected, communities heal.
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