Global Health & Wellbeing Coaching Symposium

Dan has advised governments in South Africa, the Netherlands, Brazil, United Kingdom, US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. Among the projects he has been involved with is how to help those in historically excluded populations stay in school, how to help women in these populations find work, and how to encourage more kids—girls especially—to study computer science. He has also worked on finding ways to address traffic congestion, reduce government bureaucracy, reducing prostitution, improve trust between government and citizens and increase motivation among principals, teachers, and students. He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, co-creator of the film documentary (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies, and a three-time New York Times bestselling author. His books include Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, Irrationally Yours, Payoff , Dollars and Sense and Amazing Decisions. He has a bi-weekly advice column in the Wall Street Journal called “Ask Ariely.” Dan can be found at www.danariely.com.

Patrick, originally from France, former competitive tennis player, who has been building online for 22 years, more recently consumer products for Skype at Microsoft and Techstars. Patrick was was also a Computer Science researcher at Stanford in a previous life. Two years ago, he started Span after his personal journey towards optimal health and longevity.

Sahana is Head of Product at Wild, an app that helps women train, fuel and recover according to their specific physiology. Through her experience in completing her PhD in biomedical research as well as being a competitive athlete herself, she transitioned into assimilating academic literature on female exercise physiology into the Wild app, after which she took on product management. Wild aims to elevate the capabilities of the female body, through scientifically backed recommendations, enabling data driven decisions and also offers a coach platform to inform coaches about their athletes' data. It helps that Sahana is also a Strength and Conditioning Coach alongside her role at Wild, and has worked in elite sport for just over 4 years. She now works with British Diving, recently aiding in the success of Olympic Gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games. In her spare time, Sahana enjoys walking her year-old Husky, breaking stereotypes about women, sharpening her Olympic weightlifting skills, and playing semi-competitive badminton.

Leigh-Ann Webster has served as the Executive Director for the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC) since 2015. The NBHWC is a nonprofit organization that has created a professional standard for health and wellness coaching and fostered a community of more than 5,000 National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coaches throughout the world. Prior to joining the NBHWC, Leigh-Ann served as the Director of Business and Partnerships for professional triathlete, Lesley Paterson. She is also the founder of 52 Healthy Weeks, a company dedicated to supporting people who aspire to live a healthy and active lifestyle. She is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Certified Personal Trainer and DPP Lifestyle Coach. In recent months, Leigh-Ann has been a featured speaker for several health & wellness related conferences and podcasts. Leigh-Ann is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach Interest Group, and serves on the board for the Palomar Family YMCA. She is a graduate of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and enjoys spending time with her family, exploring nature, participating in endurance events and being creative with cooking.

Dr. Jenna Carl is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the research and treatment of anxiety, depression, insomnia, and related mental health disorders. She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, and has presented her research and clinical trainings at leading international conferences, such as the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, World Congress for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the American Psychological Association (APA). She serves as Chair of the APA’s Division 12 Presidential Task Force on the integration of technology and mental health treatment. As the Chief Medical Officer at Big Health, Dr. Carl is responsible for developing evidence-based digital therapeutics for common mental health conditions that can be implemented within large employers, health plans, and health systems. She obtained her PhD in clinical psychology from Boston University, with training in the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the VA Health System’s National Center for Innovation to Implementation.

From stage IV cancer patient to ComedyCures CEO, Saranne Rothberg is a sought-after healthcare thought leader, speaker, patient advocate, and health and happiness expert, and is regularly featured on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX & PBS. Saranne collaborates with Fortune 500 companies, leading medical centers, The World Health Organization, The United Nations, The National Cancer Institute, U.S. military, and many prestigious universities and non-profits. She creates innovative global wellness-related programming in all media formats, collaborating with a myriad of healthcare professionals, thought leaders, researchers, and entertainers to start conversations, share ideas at healthcare conventions, stimulate research and find solutions across healthcare and many industries. Saranne launched The ComedyCures Foundation from her chemo chair in 1999 and today is cancerfree, helping over one million people at over 1,800 live and digital events worldwide rediscover their funny bone, mojo, and purpose. ComedyCures.org is an acclaimed non-profit organization that brings joy, hope, laughter, and therapeutic edu-tainment to patients, caregivers, and those who need it most.

Sarah Hays Coomer writes the Hey, Health Coach column for Forbes. She is a Mayo Clinic & National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Certified Personal Trainer with the National Strength and Conditioning Association, speaker, and author. She has spent nearly 20 years helping individuals and groups build personalized systems to ease chronic stress with self-selected, concrete behavioral changes. She has contributed to publications including Forbes, HuffPost, Triathlete Magazine, and Thrive Global. Her books include: The Habit Trip, Physical Disobedience, and Lightness of Body and Mind. She lives in Nashville, TN with her family and two rescue pups, and you can connect with her through her website, LinkedIn or Instagram.

Margaret Moore/Coach Meg, MBA, is an executive coach, and founder and CEO of Wellcoaches Corporation, the first coaching school for health professionals. Moore is co-founder (2009) and Chair of the Institute of Coaching at McLean, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, and co-director of the Coaching in Leadership & Healthcare conference offered by Harvard Medical School since 2008.

Linda Aiello is Senior Vice President, International Employee Success at Salesforce. In her role, Linda leads employee recruitment, benefits and engagement programmes for the international Salesforce Ohana. Since joining Salesforce in 2016, Linda has placed a focus on creating a strong and engaged culture at Salesforce that has led to recognition as a Great Place to Work in global markets including the UK, Germany, Canada and Japan. Prior to joining Salesforce, Linda led human resources and recruiting in EMEA for Uber. With nearly 20 years experience, she has also managed resources and development at leading fashion brands including LVMH Fashion Group, Jimmy Choo and Bruno Magli.

George Rivera III serves as the Senior Vice President of Commercial and Enterprise Sales at the Society for Human Resource Management. He is responsible for broadening the awareness of SHRM's mission to enhance workforce development by building and strengthening partnerships with some of the largest enterprise organizations across the globe. In addition to helping bring to market the top ideas and innovations through our reach, representing all things workplace, workers, and work. George is a proven business development thought leader who places a deep emphasis on people, with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling highly productive, results-driven sales organizations. Prior to joining SHRM George spent over a decade honing his expertise in HCM cloud technology, retirement, insurance, and other employee benefits, as well as HR services and PEO offerings as he led sales efforts of Paychex Inc., a top HR consulting organization. In addition to business-growth responsibilities, George also led critical cross-functional company initiatives throughout much of the organization including Learning and Development, Marketing and Lead Generation, Finance, and Talent Acquisition, but the most rewarding experience, by far, was his service on the board for the annual United Way Campaign. George Rivera III recognizes that strong leaders build strong businesses and strong businesses build strong communities. George is firm believer in focusing on strategic growth for all partners. When not at work, Rivera serves as Vice President for SHARE International a Non-Profit that aims to support the indigenous peoples of the Amazon in Peru.

Nina Sossamon-Pogue says she is the result of (how she handled) the plot twists of her unique life story. She’s been a successful corporate executive, an Emmy award-winning News Anchor, and a member of the USA Gymnastics team. Candidly sharing the painful failures that accompanied her successes, she is the author of This is Not ‘The End’, Strategies To Get You Through The Worst Chapters of Your Life. Nina lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and speaks throughout the US, inspiring audiences to envision their futures in new ways. She is an expert on resilience and she researches and writes about how highly successful individuals and companies get from adversity to achievement. For more on information about Nina visit www.ninasossamonpogue.com or her Author Facebook Page, Nina Sossamon Pogue, Author

​​I'm a polymath who speaks, writes, teaches, advises, invests, and builds cool things (mostly in health). People seek me for my ideas, and to perform what I'm thinking. In doing so, I get to globetrot all around the world and meet the most interesting people. Currently, I'm working on a crazy idea where I believe a story can serve as a form of medicine. We call this tiny idea WellPlayed.health -- a multimedia storytelling expedition at the intersection of health and humanity. To help us achieve our bold vision, we've collaborated with some cool players you might recognize...like Spotify & HATCH. I also have a book trapped inside me. One day I'll figure out how to release this beast and get it in your hands. I live my life by this simple motto: GoBeDo GO to interesting places. BE with interesting people. DO interesting things. And that's what brings me to you! Life is short. Play it well. + > , Dr.G PS: If you want the formal rundown of my full bio with detailed credentials and chronological experiences, please visit www.drgautamgulati.com.

Dominique is a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Master Certified Health Coach. She has been actively coaching since 2008. Dominique has a Master of Arts in Educational Psychology from University of Colorado, Denver, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from University of California, Riverside and a Nutrition Educator Certification from Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts. Dominique is currently serving as the Executive Director of Education with Dr. Sears Wellness Institute where she oversees the Health Coach training and certification as well as works closely with Dr. Sears in the development of new courses and provides continual support to the instructors and coaches.

Karen Dalton received her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from Loma Linda University, her Masters degree in Social Science and Bachelors degree in Health Science s from California State University, Chico. Karen has been working in the field of public health and health sciences for over 25 years, where she developed successful interventions for those experiencing incarceration in the nation’s largest law enforcement agency. Karen is a Master Certified Health Coach and an instructor for the Advanced Coach Training and Techniques Course, and has had an active coaching practice since 2019.

Rebecca (Becky) Bishop is a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Master Certified Health Coach, with coaching experience since 2009. Becky received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas. She practiced law for over 15 years and is a certified mediator. Becky is the Education Manager and has been an instructor for the Dr. Sears Wellness Institute since 2013. She continues to play an active role as an instructor for the Advanced Coach Training and Techniques course. Becky has extensive experience as a Health Coach and was featured on the Great Day St. Louis television show and the web-radio show, Conscious Manifesting. She was also featured in the holistic living magazine, The Rising, and on the health and wellness website, Livestrong.com.

Jessica DaMassa has emerged as the ‘it girl’ of health tech interviewing. She brings an enthusiastic, fun, yet inquisitive style to her interviewing and hosting of conferences, interviews, and videos. But don’t be fooled, there’s a ton of knowledge, and plenty of tough questions under that charming style and infectious energy. She’s the ‘girl to know’ to know ‘who’s who’ and ‘what’s what’ in health tech – having racked up more than 500 interviews in just the past three years. From health tech CEOs and government officials to health tech VC investors and the ‘healthcare establishment,’ Jessica’s spoken with C-level leaders from nearly every major health system, health plan, and pharmaceutical company grappling with digital health, as well as physicians transforming the practice of medicine. Add in a motley assortment of startups, the occasional futurist, passionate patient advocates, and anyone else with a meaningful story to contribute to the larger change taking place in healthcare worldwide – and Jessica’s talked to them. Her current project, ‘WTF Health – What’s the Future, Health?’ is an interview series taking her around the world to 17 different health tech conferences in 11 different countries to continue her quest of asking everyone everywhere about the future of health – and WTF is wrong with it right now. She also hosts health tech’s best two-minute Q&A news series, ‘Health in 2 Point 00,’ which airs on The Health Care Blog with editorial commentary and analysis on the latest stories shaping the health tech market. To start binge-watching her interviews, begin at www.wtf.health or follow her on Twitter @jessdamassa.

Emily Athena is a sexual wellness coach and sensual movement teacher. Drawing on her extensive background in dance, somatics, and comprehensive sex education, she supports people to embody their unique erotic essence, heal from pain and dysfunction, and unshame, claim, and celebrate their sexuality. Emily is the creator of EroSpark Movement, somatic sensual movement to ignite your aliveness! EroSpark Movement is a monthly membership with weekly live classes and so much more, designed to help you release stress, rediscover pleasure, and rekindle your desire.

“8:30 pm, Thursday April 2016, Cornhill Street, London - the incident that took place at this time on this date in this location changed me, and the course of my life, significantly. Fast forward 6 months later to the end of October. I'm sat in a coffee shop by St Pauls with my Head of HR. She bought me a slice of carrot cake - she knows I have a sweet tooth. It looks so delicious but my stomach is in knots, I feel like I'm going to be sick. I can hardly speak. We sit down opposite each other and she asks me what's wrong. I can't bare to look at her as I try to summon the words so instead I turn sideways on my chair, put my head against the glass window and stare into the distance. Tears are streaming down my cheeks and all I feel is shame. I've come to know it well. It's familiar hold engulfing me once more as it has over the last few months. Minutes of silence go by. She waits. Finally, I pull the words to my lips and whisper "6 months ago I was sexually assaulted by X (a senior man in the business)." Held hostage by this shame, I'd spent the last 6 months blaming myself, confident that what had happened was my fault even though rationally I knew it wasn't. I told myself that it wasn't 'that bad' and that I was being 'over-emotional'. Womxn everywhere experience worse. I stopped wearing make up at work and started to dress in black to try and make myself invisible. I would meet dad for lunch a few times a month and not make it through the door without crying but unable to communicate why. I lost all sense of myself and my worth. I could feel myself falling deeper and deeper into a black hole. I didn't know who I was anymore. My identity had been taken from me. 6 months after the Cornhill Street incident, I found out that the same man was 'grooming' other women in the business to join a team he was pulling together. I also kept hearing stories that his behaviour hadn't changed. In that moment I knew I couldn't keep my experience to myself because the guilt - and the implications of not doing anything - became a greater weight than the shame. In October 2016, I made a decision to no longer be a victim and to instead recognize that I was a survivor. This decision was the catalyst for everything that followed and it's what led me to Zinc, drawn in by their mission to 'transform the mental and emotional health of women and girls'. It's what immediately connected Anna and I, and it's what enabled us to see so clearly the unmet need around women's sexual wellbeing. It's my personal mission to always work on projects that will empower women and girls, to use my voice in pursuit of gender equality and to challenge the status quo even if it's an unpopular - if not seemingly impossible - opinion. No person should ever be a survivor of sexual assault, but that's not the world we live in. Globally, 1 in 3 women will be. Ferly is our first contribution to changing this, it is my battle cry to smashing the taboos, ridding the shame, and taking my identity back. I know who I am.”

Corinne Tobias has founded 2 cannabis wellness businesses and has worked with people from all over the world to improve their health with cannabis. In addition to creating the done-for-you 8 week program you’ll learn in the coaching intensive, she’ll support you with navigating the new world of cannabis coaching, including marketing and business strategy. Corinne is the creator of Wake + Bake, a blog that’s helped millions of people understand how to use cannabis as a health and wellness tool. She’s also a certified Health & Life coach, certified Yoga teacher, holds a dual BA in English and Mass Communications, and has published 3 cannabis cookbooks since 2013. Her work has been featured in High Times, Merry Jane, Vice and Westwood.

​​I'm a polymath who speaks, writes, teaches, advises, invests, and builds cool things (mostly in health). People seek me for my ideas, and to perform what I'm thinking. In doing so, I get to globetrot all around the world and meet the most interesting people. Currently, I'm working on a crazy idea where I believe a story can serve as a form of medicine. We call this tiny idea WellPlayed.health -- a multimedia storytelling expedition at the intersection of health and humanity. To help us achieve our bold vision, we've collaborated with some cool players you might recognize...like Spotify & HATCH. I also have a book trapped inside me. One day I'll figure out how to release this beast and get it in your hands. I live my life by this simple motto: GoBeDo GO to interesting places. BE with interesting people. DO interesting things. And that's what brings me to you! Life is short. Play it well. + > , Dr.G PS: If you want the formal rundown of my full bio with detailed credentials and chronological experiences, please visit www.drgautamgulati.com.