She worked as a general hospitalist in South Africa, practicing emergency medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics, and then as a resident anesthesiologist and intensivist in the UK and Australia.

When she and her husband moved to the US in 2006, she was pregnant with her first child. She committed to being a full-time parent as they navigated life and work with visa and green card restrictions.

Through coaching, she has overcome ingrained beliefs about what a career ‘should’ look like. In 2017, she became a certified yoga teacher, and two years later she earned her coaching certification through McLaren Coaching in Sacramento. Suzi lives in California, with her anesthesiologist husband and two teenage sons.

Suzi partners with clients to clarify their purpose and values and to support them in aligning their professional and personal lives accordingly. She knows that coaching enables clients to see more choices, empowering them to navigate challenges such as work pressure, clear communication, career transitions, and prioritizing self-care. She challenges self-limiting beliefs to support clients in taking committed action to bring about the changes, they need to live and work with intention and authenticity.

“I understand what it takes to be a physician and the responsibilities and pressures that go with it. There is always more to learn. It is easy to feel like an impostor, or to believe that there is no option but to work harder and not take time for oneself, which can easily lead to burnout.

When I practiced medicine I did not have a coach. If I had, I would have had someone in my corner who would take a stand for what I said I wanted when perceived obstacles made me doubt that I wanted it after all. Someone to
challenge my negative thoughts when they seemed so reasonable and convincing; to show me that there were more options than I believed possible; who could support me through interviews, impostor phenomenon, career advancement and making time for self care. Someone who would hold me accountable for taking courageous action
towards my desired outcomes, especially when it seemed daunting. This is why now, as a coach myself, I am drawn to helping health professionals thrive.”

Having spent over 20 years practicing medicine, Dr. Asamoah understands the unique pressures physicians face with the complexities of patient care, the demands of leadership, and the challenge of balancing professional success with personal well-being. Throughout her career, she has worked with clinicians, healthcare leaders and
educators who are seeking greater clarity, confidence, and alignment in their work and lives.

As a coach, Dr. Asamoah partners with physicians who may be experiencing leadership challenges, career uncertainty, burnout, identity shifts, or the desire to lead and live with greater intention. She partners with her clients to create a supportive space for reflection, helping clients reconnect with their values, strengths, and vision while developing practical strategies for meaningful and lasting change.

Drawing on her background in psychiatry, neuroscience, leadership development, and narrative coaching, Dr. Asamoah helps clients understand the patterns, beliefs, and stories that shape how they lead and show up in the world. Her coaching approach integrates evidence-based insight with deep curiosity, compassion, and whole-person awareness to support growth that is both sustainable and transformative.

In addition to coaching, Dr. Asamoah serves as a coach trainer, writer and speaker, supporting the development of leaders across healthcare and higher education. Dr. Asamoah lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys reading, traveling, exploring native Texas landscapes, and discovering new restaurants in Austin.

“I’m honored to partner with physicians and healthcare leaders to rewrite narratives that no longer serve them so they can discover what else is possible. I see the coaching relationship as a sacred space where my clients can pause, reflect on where they are and where they aspire to be and develop the tools and strategies to move forward.”

Whether you are facing burnout, chronic stress, or overwhelm; or maybe you find yourself in a new role and need to uplevel your leadership, communication, or interpersonal skills; or maybe you feel disconnected from what drew you into a career as a healthcare provider or disillusioned by the challenging reality of delivering high quality care; or maybe you are feeling great and want to contemplate what might be next for you….Dr. Linde has been there, done that, and can help you navigate those and many other challenges and opportunities.

Dr. Linde has provided primary health care to vulnerable populations, directed a community health center, helped develop drugs and medical devices for people with rare diseases, overseen development of national nutrition and physical activity guidelines, presented to national and international audiences on various aspects of the U.S. healthcare system, strengthened health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, and deployed numerous times to provide public health and medical support for natural disasters and special events. She understands leadership, complexity, and change.

She brings this wealth of expertise and passion to serve to her coaching. As a trusted, critical thinking partner, Dr. Linde creates a safe space and will engage you in thought provoking and purposeful conversation to help you capitalize on your strengths, create clarity around what’s truly important, compassionately confront thought patterns and behaviors that may be getting in the way, and choose perspectives and approaches that are aligned with your personal and professional values, and impactful and effective in meeting organizational objectives.

Dr. Linde earned an Executive Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (March 2019), the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coach Federation (January 2020), and the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the ICF (January 2022). She lives in Kensington, MD with her dog and cats, and enjoys physical fitness, being in nature, and having adventures.

“As a coach, I offer compassion and curiosity, wisdom and wit, and energy and encouragement. As a trustworthy thinking partner, I will help you (re)connect with what is important to you; explore what may be missing and/or getting in the way; and support you to see new possibilities, make meaningful choices, and take action to live a fulfilling and more balanced personal and professional life. I look forward to meeting you!”

With over a decade of experience leading healthcare teams and systems, she has served in executive leadership roles across the federal healthcare sector, where she has guided organizational transformation, physician engagement, quality improvement, and strategic growth initiatives.

Through her coaching and leadership development work, Dr. Carter helps physicians and healthcare professionals navigate career transitions, build confidence as leaders, overcome self-doubt, and lead with authenticity while maintaining personal well-being. Her approach
combines practical leadership strategies, emotional intelligence, and the power of meaningful professional relationships to help clients achieve sustainable success.

As a nationally recognized speaker and advocate for physician leadership, Dr. Carter is passionate about helping clinicians recognize that leadership is not separate from their clinical identity but rather an extension of it. She believes that when physicians learn to lead themselves effectively, they are better equipped to influence teams, organizations, and the future of healthcare.

Dr. Carter is the founder of Dr. Maia Enterprises and creator of leadership development programs designed to accelerate the growth of emerging and established physician leaders. She is also an advisor to healthcare technology companies focused on advancing innovation through the lens of real-world clinical experience.

“I believe every physician already possesses the foundation of leadership. My role is to help clinicians recognize their strengths, trust their voice, and expand their influence beyond the bedside without losing the compassion and purpose that brought them to medicine in the first place. I create a space where physicians can grow with confidence, navigate challenges with clarity, and build careers that align with both their professional ambitions and personal values.”

She believes that many physicians devote enormous energy to caring for patients, supporting colleagues, and serving causes greater than themselves, often treating their own well-being as something to be earned later.

Through coaching, she helps physicians recognize that caring for themselves is not a luxury or reward for achievement, but an essential part of living and working well. The demands of medicine are real, as are the competing forces physicians navigate every day: service and family, achievement and rest, excellence and self acceptance, leadership and connection. Her goal is not to help clients lower their standards or abandon their aspirations. Instead, she helps them cultivate a healthy relationship with achievement—one grounded in self- acceptance, purpose, and compassion.

Nicholette is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, positive psychology practitioner, and physician coach. She has experienced the deeply rewarding sense of purpose that comes from mission- driven community medicine as well as the extraordinary clinical excellence of academic medicine caring for some of the sickest children in the world. Both experiences shaped her understanding of what helps people and teams thrive.

We come to medicine wanting to make a difference. We also come wanting to learn, grow, master our craft, and contribute at the highest level possible. Yet the very perfectionism that helps physicians achieve excellence can sometimes pull us away from ourselves and from one another. Medicine, she believes, is much like a symphony orchestra. Every member must pursue mastery of their craft, yet the music emerges only through collaboration. Technical excellence matters. So do trust, belonging, humility, and our ability to recognize our interdependence. The joy is found somewhere in the middle—in environments that value both community and excellence, and in ways of relating to ourselves and one another that honor both who we are today and who we are capable of becoming.

Wanting to better understand how individuals and teams flourish, Nicholette earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed coach training through the Hudson Institute of Coaching and Positive Psychology Coach Certification through Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener’s Positive Acorn. Positive psychology gave her a framework for understanding something she had observed throughout her career: sustainable excellence is not created by pressure alone. It grows when people feel connected—to one another, to a sense of purpose, to their strengths, and to the parts of themselves that exist beyond their professional roles.

Today, she works with physicians who care deeply about their patients, their families, and their work, but who sometimes struggle to extend that same compassion to themselves. 

She helps clients reconnect with their values, recognize their strengths, and create careers and lives that feel both meaningful and sustainable.
At the heart of her coaching is the belief that physicians are more than the roles they occupy. We are partners, parents, friends, community members, learners, and imperfect human beings living lives that are rich, complex, and interconnected. Challenges and setbacks are part of every meaningful career, but they need not define us. Nicholette helps
clients look beyond what feels broken or insufficient to recognize the strengths, values, relationships, and sources of meaning that have been present all along. From that place, growth becomes less about fixing ourselves and more about becoming more fully who we already are. Her coaching creates space for physicians to explore not only how they want to practice medicine, but also how they want to live.

“I don’t believe physicians need to choose between achievement and self-acceptance. We can strive, learn, grow, and pursue excellence while also recognizing our inherent worth. Some of the most meaningful moments in coaching occur when people begin to see themselves not through the lens of their shortcomings, but through the lens of their strengths, their values, and the possibilities still unfolding before them.”

Kristin has served as both Department Chair and Medical Director of Hospital Medicine for several years, leading her team through the intensity and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time she faced her own burnout journey, and through the transformative impact of coaching learned to protect what matters, set and hold boundaries, and create rhythms that make space for medicine and a life that deeply aligns with her values. This transformation led her to pursue professional coaching certification to share its impact with the physician community.

In coaching, Kristin partners with physicians who are accomplished and capable, yet often depleted. She believes all clinicians have the ability to thrive and draws upon positive psychology and appreciative inquiry principles to partner with clinicians through
all stages of their journeys. She enjoys meeting clinicians where they are and helping them reconnect with their sense of purpose and restore energy and balance in ways most meaningful to them.

Her home includes a wonderful physician wife, energetic toddler, 2 vibrant step teenagers and 3 mischievous cats. She is an avid reader, world traveler and water sport enthusiast who loves adventure and trying new ideas, currently as an amateur gardener.

“My coaching approach is grounded in presence, partnership, and possibility. Together, we explore what matters most, what may be limiting your energy or clarity, and what is ready to emerge in your leadership, professional identity, relationships, and life. This work is about helping you hear yourself more clearly, trust your wisdom more fully, and move forward with greater alignment, courage, and purpose.”

As a physician, mother, and immigrant, Dr. Fernandes understands the unspoken pressures, emotional labor, and chronic over-functioning many physicians carry, especially women. A self-described recovering perfectionist, she deeply understands the high-achieving mindset and works collaboratively with clients to build self-trust, strengthen boundaries, and increase capacity—without asking them to abandon their standards or sense of purpose.

Dr. Fernandes has practiced across a wide range of clinical settings. Despite changing roles, environments, and schedules, burnout continued to surface—leading to a pivotal realization: sustainable change requires more than adjusting external circumstances; it also requires addressing deeply ingrained patterns within.

Her coaching is grounded in the belief that burnout is not a personal failure or a time management problem, but the result of systems that reward overextension while disconnecting physicians from their own needs, limits, and humanity. Rather than surface-level fixes, she supports deep, sustainable change rooted in identity, nervous system capacity, and self compassion.

Dr. Fernandes lives in New York with her husband, two young children, and their dog. Outside of work, she prioritizes finding joy and presence in the simple moments with her family.

“My mission is to ensure that every healthcare professional knows they do not need to accept chronic stress and overwhelm as the cost of medicine. There is another way. With intention and support, meaningful change is possible. My biggest goal is to support you in finding a more sustainable, human way forward—without losing what matters to you.”

Having worked on the front lines of critical care, including throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Natalie understands firsthand the relentless time pressure, emotional intensity, and moral complexity that healthcare professionals navigate every day. She knows what it
means to carry responsibility for others while pushing through exhaustion and overwhelm.

Her path into coaching began organically. Colleagues sought her out for support during moments of stress, burnout, and uncertainty. Through her own exploration of sustainable resilience, she discovered practical, evidence-informed approaches, including mindfulness and meditation, that allowed her to remain steady and clear minded even in demanding environments.

Natalie studied with respected teachers including Lorin Roche, Russ Hudson, and Robert Peng, and has attended Vipassana retreats. She later pursued formal nurse coach training, integrating evidence-based coaching methodologies with mindfulness based practices.

As a certified meditation teacher, Natalie brings a calm, grounded, and nonjudgmental presence to her work. She creates a confidential space where health care professionals can slow down, reflect, and develop practical strategies to manage stress more effectively.

Her work focuses on helping clinicians regulate stress, restore energy, and reconnect with meaning in their work.

Natalie believes that those who care for others deserve to be cared for. She approaches every coaching relationship with respect, professionalism, and deep appreciation for the complexity of modern medical practice.

Outside of her professional work, Natalie enjoys travel, hiking, dancing, cooking healthy meals, and spending time with her two daughters.

“Imagine going to work feeling calm, grounded, and purposeful. Imagine connecting meaningfully with patients and leaving work with a sense of accomplishment – able to be fully present with your family and friends. These shifts are possible. I’m here to support you in that process.”

She has worked alongside physicians in high-stakes, high-acuity environments and understands the weight that Advanced Practice Providers carry every single day. That lived insider knowledge is the foundation of everything she brings to her coaching work.

Now a credentialed professional coach holding certifications in executive coaching, wellness coaching, resilience, emotional intelligence, mindset, career growth, life alignment, breathwork, Reiki, and Human Design, Lori supports APPs in building lives that are as sustainable as they are meaningful. Her coaching draws on both the science of nervous system capacity and the deeper work of identity so that the changes her clients make are not temporary adjustments but lasting shifts.

Lori’s own turning point came from within the clinical world she loved. She recognized that she had been giving everything to her career, her patients, and everyone around her while quietly losing herself in the process. That reckoning became her catalyst and ignited a deep commitment to helping other APPs find their way back to themselves before burnout makes that choice for them.

She holds the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential and brings warmth, directness, and a grounded calm to every coaching relationship. Her style is equal parts honest and compassionate. She will meet you exactly where you are and she will not let you stay stuck there.

“I spent more than two decades in clinical medicine doing work I believed in and I still burned out. Not because I wasn’t strong enough. Because no one ever taught me that I was allowed to matter too. That is what I bring to my APP clients. I know this world from the inside. I know the pride and the pressure and the invisible cost. My work is to help you keep the parts of this career that light you up while reclaiming the parts of yourself that got left behind. You became a provider to make a difference. Let’s make sure you are still standing while you do.”

She is the former co-chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians well-being committee.

Dr. Williams has helped many physicians overcome charting inefficiency and is passionate about helping healthcare professionals navigate the rapidly changing, increasingly demanding landscape of their daily practice. Her coaching background includes in-depth training in neuroscience, positive intelligence, and heart math techniques.

Meeting with physician coaches helped define what that career transition looked like. Debra embarked on the adventure of coach training and certification in 2016, allowing her to live her values and achieve harmony in her life and career.

He believes the key to personal and professional success lies in bringing “soul to role” in your medical practice.

Dr. Sherman is a pediatrician, coach, and consultant to physicians and healthcare organizations in the areas of cross-cultural medicine, leadership, and provider well-being. He is a facilitator with the Center for Courage and Renewal and a Master Certified Physician Development Coach with the Physician Coaching Institute.

Dr. Sherman has been in pediatric practice for over 35 years concentrating on healthcare delivery to underserved and medically complex children in the District of Columbia, Tacoma, Seattle, Uganda, and Bolivia. He has held numerous faculty positions and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington.

“In 2009, after spending 4 years living and working in Bolivia with my family, I returned to the U.S. and my career as a pediatrician at an academic health center. I soon found the institutional, educational, and patient care demands placed upon me to be overwhelming. This eventually led to burnout and a temporary departure from clinical medicine.

After a year of reflection, discernment, and support from family and friends, I was able to identify my core values and integrate them into my future career decision-making. I returned to part-time pediatric practice while developing the skills to accompany other physicians, individually and in groups, to re-discover their passion for medicine.

Having experienced burnout, myself, I understand the day-to-day struggles health professionals face in trying to provide quality care to their patients while also dealing with the systemic dysfunction of healthcare institutions.

I provide a welcoming, confidential space for my clients to explore what brings them joy in their work as healthcare providers and how to integrate that into their daily lives and future career plans.

Dr. Makhunga-Stevenson is deeply passionate about helping her clients achieve fulfillment in both their professional and personal lives. Her coaching supports physicians in managing stress, improving productivity, enhancing work-life balance, and fostering healthier, more meaningful connections with themselves and others. Drawing from the concept of interconnectedness, she encourages her clients to recognize how their actions, well-being, and values affect not only their personal lives but also those around them, fostering a sense of community and mutual support.

Having personally navigated the pressures of healthcare, Dr. Makhunga-Stevenson transitioned into coaching with the goal of making a meaningful, long-term impact in the medical community. She believes every physician and physician leader has the potential to lead a fulfilling life by aligning with their core values and leading with purpose, authenticity, and balance.

She collaborates with clients to build transformative strategies that honor both individual goals and collective well-being.

She holds the distinct honor of being the world’s first medical doctor trained and certified in Ubuntu coaching.

“In my approach to coaching, I draw from the African philosophy of Ubuntu, which emphasizes the belief that “I am because we are.” This philosophy encourages a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of all people. Our coaching journey goes beyond individual success and focuses on aligning your personal aspirations in ways that nurture authenticity, foster mutual respect, and create meaningful connections that enhance both your personal growth and the collective impact you have on others.”

In 2015 she earned a certificate in Positive Psychology from the Whole-being Institute. Subsequently, she has earned certifications from a variety of other coaching programs.

Prior to becoming a coach, Dina worked as a clinical nurse for over 20 years. Dina holds a Master’s degree in Nursing from Pace University and a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University.

Nursing leaders who work with Dina develop strong communication and conflict management skills, clarity about their authentic leadership style, self-compassion, a clear vision for their leadership role, and the courage and a plan to pursue the vision.

Dina has worked with a variety of leaders helping them to tap into self-leadership in order to have a greater impact on their personal and professional lives.

Becoming a coach was a homecoming for Dina. She had always been interested in personal development.

After stepping away from nursing because of burnout in 2006 she hired a career coach with the thought of re-entering nursing in a different way. After several sessions, the coach suggested looking into becoming a health coach. Dina went to a top coaching program that offered opportunities to bring her nurturing style to people beyond issues related to health.

Dina’s initial focus as a coach and speaker was on burnout prevention and recovery. In In September 2016, she published Vital Signs of Well-Being which is available on Kindle. Prior to the pandemic, Dina was a speaker on topics related to well-being.

Dina supports leaders so they can regain passion and energy, tap into their strengths, and live meaningful and impactful lives. Since 2011, Dina has worked with a variety of people within and beyond healthcare. Dina has a wide variety of experiences with Life and Leadership coaching for mid-level leaders to Vice Presidents of organizations. Personal and professional development go hand in hand.

On a personal note, Dina has been happily married to a neurologist for over 30 years. They are the parents of 3 adults in their late 20s. Dina loves learning and has pursued varied knowledge related to coaching. Dina enjoys being with family, walks, yoga, and audiobooks.”

“My hope is for each of my clients to live a life of fulfillment, now and into the future. I help you discover what truly matters to you, beyond others’ expectations and the stories you tell yourself. Through deep listening and honest reflection, you can make coherent sense of your thoughts. Together we expand perspective, create clarity, possibility, and build the confidence to define success on your own terms.

I work with people to develop self-compassion, clarity about what’s important to them, a vision of their preferred future, and the courage and a plan to pursue that vision. Having been a nurse practitioner, and being married to a physician, I am familiar with many of the pressures in health care. I have over a dozen years of working as a life and leadership coach with people who are individual contributors up to VPs in their organization. Several of the most impactful areas I work with people on are, perspective-shifting to help people see alternatives and get unstuck, and effective communication, especially for 1:1 and small group communication. Outside of coaching, I enjoy spending time with family, walking, and yoga. My newest hobby is learning ballroom and Latin dance.”

As the former Medical Director of Infection Prevention at her institution, she was responsible for establishing and implementing infection prevention protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her experiences with burnout, depression, and leadership challenges led to her becoming a Certified Professional Coactive Coach through the Co- Active Training Institute. She is a native of New Jersey, a mother to two girls, and currently resides in Dallas, Texas. She enjoys writing about her life experiences including being a child of immigrant parents, training to become a physician, and family life.

Dr. Trivedi is a Lead Coach with the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Leadership Institute and author of a bimonthly coaching column. She is passionate about guiding other physicians and healthcare workers along the path to self-empowerment and fulfillment in medicine. She believes in the importance of connecting with our emotions, our feelings and our body to guide us towards what we want.

“My deepest longing is to encourage others in finding their voice AND learning how they can move into the driver seat of their lives. All too often, I have seen healthcare workers, especially women, prioritize everyone and everything else above their own well-being. I believe in helping my clients connect with their inner wisdom and truth in creating a life they want. In working with me, we will explore values and discover how to transform limiting beliefs and behaviors into empowering ones. We will learn how to tap into the courage you need so you can move away from burnout and overwhelm and towards peace and happiness.”

She has served as Chief Wellness Officer for a federally qualified health center and currently is an Associate Program Director for a family medicine residency program, where she has supports both practicing clinicians and physicians in training. Through her leadership and clinical work, she has witnessed firsthand the increasing pressures of modern medicine and their impact on the well-being of healthcare professionals.

Like many physicians, Colleen experienced the cumulative effects of these challenges in her own life. Over time, she became physically and emotionally exhausted, burdened by self-doubt and a growing sense of disconnection from the purpose that initially drew her to medicine. Navigating the demands of mid-career practice alongside personal responsibilities led her to question her place in the profession. In seeking a more meaningful and sustainable way forward, she discovered coaching—a turning point that helped her reconnect with her values, restore her sense of integrity, and rebuild self-trust.

As a certified Master Development Coach through the Physician Coaching Institute, Colleen now partners with physicians to help them rediscover clarity, purpose, and fulfillment. Her coaching approach is grounded in creating a safe, reflective space where clients can reconnect
with their inner wisdom, identify what truly matters, and make intentional, values-aligned choices. Through techniques embedded in mindfulness and positive psychology she supports clients in building self-trust, cultivating self-compassion, and developing practical strategies that allow them to thrive both professionally and personally.

Colleen lives with her partner at the base of the Adirondack Mountains where she enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, birding, and simply being in nature. She also loves sharing in these activities with her two adult children. With her daughter being away at college and her son living in New Zealand, she now gets to travel further to experience outdoor adventures!

“My goal as a coach is to support you in creating a way of living that reflects your values, honors your integrity, and allows you to thrive. I provide a safe non judgemental space where you can slow down, reflect honestly, and reconnect with your inner wisdom. Together, we will focus on building self-trust, uncovering the courage you already have, and cultivating the self-compassion needed to move forward with intention.”

In addition to his clinical background, Dr. Henry has served in national mental wellness leadership, developing and facilitating programs focused on mindfulness, mental fitness, and trauma-informed well-being. Through this work, he has created reflective spaces where leaders can process stress, reconnect with their values, and move toward greater clarity, capacity, and purpose.

Having experienced the pressures of medicine firsthand, Dr. Henry understands the toll of chronic stress, overfunctioning, and professional strain. His own journey led him to coaching as a powerful way to help physicians move beyond survival mode and create more intentional, sustainable careers and lives. He completed ICF-accredited coach training and is committed to helping physician clients build insight, agency, and meaningful forward movement.

In coaching, Dr. Henry partners with physicians who are accomplished and deeply committed, yet often tired, stretched, or disconnected from what matters most. He helps clients explore burnout, boundaries, leadership strain, identity shifts, and the challenge of sustaining a meaningful career in medicine. His style is calm, grounded, and structured, with an emphasis on honest reflection, aligned action, and lasting change.

“My goal is to help clients move from depletion and misalignment toward greater clarity, agency, and wholeness. I believe physicians do not need more pressure to perform. They need room to reflect without repercussion, recover what matters, and redefine what success looks like so they can build a way of living and leading that is both functional and fulfilling.”

Rumeena coaches leaders in healthcare, physicians who are struggling, physicians who are parents, and physicians considering retirement. Coaching topics include leadership skills, executive presence, burnout, saying no, imposter syndrome, time management, work/life balance, health and wellbeing, and parenting.

Rumeena has personal experience of leaving her medical career behind when she felt an overwhelming loss of autonomy. After much reflection she truly believes that if she had a coach back then, she would have made different, more thoughtful decisions about her career and future. She brings this unique perspective to her healthcare coaching, working with clients to reconnect with their passion and purpose.

Rumeena loves to be creative. She has an MA in Film Production and set up her first business in 2005 making Bollywood style health education comedies. Over the past 20 years Rumeena has developed a portfolio career. She has been a doctor, teacher, health educator, small business owner, film maker, CEO of a non-profit, mentor and coach. She has reinvented herself many times and has learned to listen to her intuition
about what should come next.

Rumeena believes knowing what matters to you the most will lead you to thrive, so uses a values-based approach to coaching. She loves to challenge her clients to think deeply with curiosity, bravery, joy and a touch of humor.

Rumeena lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, two daughters and pet rabbit. She still has strong personal connections to the world of medicine: her husband is an anaesthesiologist and her brother is a plastic surgeon. Rumeena loves yoga, playing tennis and singing jazz. She is slowly learning to enjoy running.

“I believe that knowing what matters to you the most will lead you to thrive in all parts of your life. My clients are busy professionals struggling to balance work and home life. I work with my clients to help them reconnect with their passion and purpose and feel joyful again. I challenge my clients to think deeply with curiosity, bravery and humor.

I have personal experience of leaving my medical career behind when I felt an overwhelming loss of autonomy. I truly believe that if I had a coach back then I would have made different, more thoughtful decisions about my career and future. I bring this experience to my coaching practice.”

She has been a coach for 4 years and has had the privilege of coaching physicians, nurse
practitioners, nurses, C-suite leaders, VPs, directors, and board members.

Dr. Tiffany Spanier is a pediatrician, part owner of a private practice, an executive physician coach, a certified mindfulness teacher, and has additional training in leading self-compassion for healthcare communities. She leads Maintenance of Certification projects at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Her combined experiences have helped her gain valuable insights to guide fellow healthcare professionals on their path to growth, development, and satisfaction. As Chairman of the Wellness Subcommittee in her organization, she collaborated with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) to develop processes in her own organization to decrease physician burnout.

“My own journey took a pivotal turn when I discovered the power of mindfulness in a seemingly ordinary setting. Through mindfulness practices, I found relief from stress, improved sleep, and a renewed sense of purpose. This revelation ignited my passion to share these invaluable skills with fellow healthcare professionals.

As a certified mindfulness teacher and advocate for physician well-being, I’ve dedicated myself to guide others on a path of self-discovery, reflection, and reconnecting to their authentic self. Through extensive training in mindfulness and self-compassion, coupled with experience as a pediatrician and executive coach, I’ve cultivated a unique approach centered on empathy, creativity, and deep listening.

My mission is to provide a safe and nurturing space for exploration, discovery, and action.
Whether you’re seeking to reignite your passion for medicine, navigate career transitions, or enhance your personal well-being, I am here to support you and I would be honored to be a part of your journey to maximizing your personal and professional fulfillment.”

She draws on her wide-ranging clinical experience in primary
care, hospital medicine, palliative care, pediatric complex care,
integrative medicine, and transgender health, as well as her
well-being leadership roles grounded in training through the
Chief Wellness Officer program at Stanford. Pediatric obesity
care and Healthcare Advocacy Consultation are some of her
recent passions.

Chrissie’s coaching is deeply informed by years of guided self inquiry, dharma study, meditation practice, complex parenting and relational experiences, and her own experiences with the cynicism and profound exhaustion of burnout. Chrissie encourages her clients to see this moment as the middle of the story, not a conclusion—an opportunity to spot and untangle accidental habitual beliefs that may have unintentionally narrowed the path. By unlearning these patterns, her clients rediscover meaning, alignment, and delight and creative solutions spontaneously arise. She often reminds clients
that joy is not frivolous, but a vital compass that points toward what is most alive and authentic in them.

She integrates neuroscience-backed approaches, including positive psychology and cognitive behavioral strategies, with inquiry-based tools such as powerful questions, journaling prompts, mindfulness practices, and creative expression. These methods help clients shift perspective, cultivate resilience, and unlock new ways of moving forward. Her style is both practical and alchemical, inviting people to use both evidence-based techniques and intuitive wisdom to create careers and lives that feel more truly aligned and more deeply and joyfully alive. Clients often describe her as a steady, playful presence who can hold both the depth of their struggle and the brightness of their emerging possibilities.

As a coach, Chrissie brings compassionate listening, humor, and unconditional positive regard for each person she works with. She is passionate about helping healthcare professionals realign with their deepest values and create careers and lives that feel both meaningful and sustainable. As a recovering perfectionist and over-doer herself, Chrissie really gets how alluring the cycle of hyper-functioning can be and how self-directed kindness is a skill that takes time to learn or re-learn.

Happily located in Portland Oregon, Chrissie lives with her wife Su, daughter Isa, and three very spoiled dogs. She loves making food with and for her friends and family and believes that karaoke with friends is a cure for many things.

“My greatest joy as a coach is in helping people find their way back to themselves. When we loosen the knots of old expired limiting beliefs and listen for the gift that longs to be given, we not only feel more alive—we begin to live and work in a way that feels generous, true, and connected.”

Christopher spent more than 20 years as an Army physician across clinical medicine, medical education, research, and leadership. He is a board-certified intensivist and Full Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University, with firsthand experience of the purpose, pressures, complexity, and occasional absurdity of a career in medicine.

His path to coaching grew directly from his own experiences with leadership and mentorship. Over time, Christopher became fascinated by a deceptively simple question: why can the same qualities that make someone exceptionally effective in one setting create friction in another? Intensity, independence, intellectual rigor, high standards, and a willingness to take responsibility can be tremendous strengths – but strengths have context, and even our best qualities can work against us when applied indiscriminately. That realization shaped both his own development and a coaching style he describes as cognitive sparring: helping clients examine assumptions, recognize patterns and blind spots, explore the benefits and costs of their strengths, and find approaches that are both effective and authentically their own. He draws on executive coaching, positive psychology, values exploration, and practical leadership tools, bringing a style that is direct, curious, pragmatic, challenging, and frequently humorous.

Christopher works with physicians facing leadership transitions, difficult relationships and organizational dynamics, burnout and misalignment, career decisions, or questions about what success should look like in the next phase of their lives. His goal is not to turn clients into different people, but to help them understand and use more of who they already are, with greater intention, flexibility, and effectiveness.

Based in Gig Harbor, Washington, Christopher focuses first on being a husband and dad to his wife and two children. He enjoys coaching youth chess and baseball, walking with his chocolate Labrador, and playing and singing blues standards – activities that provide varying degrees of evidence that he does, in fact, have interests unrelated to medicine.

“I don’t think most physicians need someone else telling them what they should do. We spend our careers becoming exceptionally good at solving problems, but eventually we encounter problems that can’t be solved simply by knowing more, working harder, or enduring longer. My job isn’t to hand you my answer. It’s to challenge your assumptions, help you notice patterns you may be too close to see, and occasionally ask the question you’d rather I didn’t ask. At some point you’ll thank or accuse me of being a straight shooter. That’s part of getting to the goal: greater clarity about what matters, what is actually within your control, and what you want to do next, with an answer that is genuinely yours.”

His career began in general surgery, followed by a vascular surgery fellowship and a move into his father’s large group practice. Working side by side, the two recognized an unmet need in their community and founded a weight loss surgery program, growing it into one of the largest community-based programs of its kind.

After a decade of practicing together, his father retired. That opened a fork in the road, and in 2019, he earned an MBA through a clinician-only, healthcare-focused program. Eighteen months of study confirmed two things for him: that he was not too old to learn, and that many of his physician peers were hungry for growth and change. When the pandemic arrived, he stepped back from clinical practice and trained as a coach at iPEC alongside his wife, also a professional coach, and he has been helping healthcare professionals and executive leaders navigate their own paths ever since. Today, two thirds of his working time is spent in Executive Education at Harvard Business School, where he coaches senior leaders through the same questions of transition and growth that bring physicians to him.

His coaching approach was shaped by three decades in the operating room. Bedrock surgical principles like sterility, hemostasis, and gentle handling of tissue are mirrored in his core belief that clients already hold their own answer, and that a coach’s job is to help them find it. He listens far more than he speaks, preferring to inquire and reflect on a client’s response rather than hand over a solution. As he told his weight loss patients for years, “You drive the bus. My job is to maintain it and help you get it where you want to go.”

Dr. Glasgow lives in Metro Boston and spends his free time in Maine with his wife Jordana. They walk the beach, collect sea glass, and enjoy visits from their adult children and grandson.

“If I have one career change left, it might be to ENT or Ophthalmology. Helping clients grasp that listening is just the first step to hearing, looking but the first to seeing, and that almost all challenges represent opportunities is one of the most rewarding things that I do.”

With more than 25 years in medicine, Dawn brings a deep understanding of both the privilege and the challenges of being a physician. Her career has included primary care, urgent care, hospital medicine, medical leadership, and medical education. She has served as an assistant medical director, Brown Family Medicine residency core faculty member, faculty for Brown Internal Medicine’s longitudinal outpatient experience, and mentor to countless Brown medical students and residents.

Her coaching approach is shaped not only by her professional experience, but by her own ongoing journey of self-examination and growth. Meditation, time in nature, positive psychology, Buddhist principles, and a deep curiosity about vulnerability and resilience all inform her work. At the heart of her approach is a belief that our struggles and discomforts can be meaningful signals—not weaknesses to be ignored, but opportunities to better understand ourselves and what we need.

Dawn also knows what it feels like to lose sight of yourself in the demands of medicine.

When she began struggling to show up as her best self, she did what had always worked for her: she pushed harder. Eventually, this resulted in her own burnout and necessitated a 12-week leave of absence.

That time gave her the space to step back and honestly examine what was happening. She realized that in caring for everyone else, she had begun to neglect her most important asset: herself.

During that time, Dawn discovered coaching, helping her to regain a sense of agency and ultimately find her way back to medicine on her own terms.

Dawn brings warmth, curiosity, humor, an easy laugh, openness, and genuine relatability to her coaching. She creates a space where physicians feel comfortable being vulnerable and honest about what is difficult, and explore what they truly want next.

She is passionate about coaching physicians as they navigate career transitions, seek greater joy, develop new skills, advance professionally, reconnect with their values, or simply want to feel more like themselves again.

“As a coach, it is an exciting adventure to show up for each client session, be open to following the discussion as it unfolds, and, through thoughtful questioning, have clients gain valuable insights and a sense of agency. The greatest reward is sharing a client’s reconnection to themselves, bringing them to a more meaningful and gratifying place in their lives.”

Prior to becoming a physician coach, Dr. Wolff held progressive leadership roles in a family medicine residency, a federally qualified health center (FQHC), public health, a community hospital, a health system, and a national healthcare consulting firm. She serves on the NYU Wagner Health Advisory Board and mentors college and graduate students.

She brings this wealth of expertise to her coaching, combining formal assessments — including DiSC Work of Leaders® — with individualized goal setting to support executive development. She has led leadership teams and dyads through complex change initiatives and new program implementation.

Dr. Wolff graduated magna cum laude from the College of William & Mary. She attended medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College, earned a Master of Public Administration from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, and completed her family medicine residency at the University of Rochester. She is currently completing her coaching certification through the Co-Active Training Institute.

“I believe people are inherently capable and resourceful. My role is not to fix them, but to challenge and support them in unlocking their potential. Like patient care, coaching is a focused partnership built on deep listening, honest reflection, and the courage to question limiting assumptions. Through my coaching, I help clients generate their own best answers and help them gain clarity, broaden perspective, and take bold, values-aligned action. I look forward to working with you.”

Her journey into coaching began in 2019, when she faced burnout after nearly a decade in emergency medicine. Experiencing the transformative power of coaching firsthand, she trained through the Physician Coaching Institute and went on to design and lead an internal physician coaching program at her medical center during the height of the Covid pandemic.

In 2022, Tania and her family embarked on a year-long journey to 19 countries, embracing adventure and growth. A silent meditation retreat in Northern Thailand further deepened her mindfulness practice, shaping the intentional way she now approaches life and career. Upon returning, she transitioned her professional path and relocated her family, guided by the very values she helps her clients honor.

Most recently, Tania has trained in Laser Focused Coaching, a powerful approach that helps uncover and move beyond limiting beliefs. She is committed to partnering with clients to create meaningful, sustainable change and to step fully into lives of purpose and fulfillment.

“Coaching is meaningful to me because it creates space for high achieving women to slow down, expand awareness, and reconnect with themselves. I love helping women recognize the thought patterns that shape their lives, cultivate greater self-trust, and realize the agency they have to create a life and career by design — one that feels aligned and sustainable.”

Over several years, she has combined her clinical expertise with advanced training in coaching, hypnotherapy, breathwork, and neuro-linguistic programming to support healthcare professionals seeking balance, fulfillment, and renewed purpose in both their professional and personal lives.

Her own experience with burnout and transformation inspired her to pursue coaching. During that season, working with a coach helped
her reclaim her power, realign with her values, and rediscover the strength within her. This journey motivated her to walk alongside other
healthcare professionals facing similar challenges, helping them move from overwhelm and fatigue to clarity, resilience, and fulfillment.

In her coaching practice, Shauna partners with clients to challenge self-limiting beliefs, cultivate confidence, and apply evidence-based, holistic strategies to create sustainable change. She focuses on what truly matters, helping clients gain clarity about what can and cannot be controlled, while building strategies that foster both professional success and personal well-being.

Outside of her professional life, Shauna is a former NCAA Division I National Champion and U.S. Track and Field World Championship team member. Her background as an athlete instilled resilience, discipline, and the power of mindset—qualities she now integrates into her coaching. She enjoys spending time outdoors, practicing meditation and breathwork, and being fully present with her daughter.

“My mission is to help healthcare professionals reconnect with their inner strength and values, so they can thrive both at work and at home. Together, we create space for clarity, resilience, and meaningful transformation.”

Les served as the Chief Medical officer at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a 600-physician multispecialty practice in eastern Massachusetts. In this role, he was responsible for clinical operations, quality and safety, practice design, leadership training, and building the quality of the physician workforce. For five years, Les served as Hospice Medical Director for the Parmenter Hospice in eastern Massachusetts.

Les attained coaching certification from the Gestalt International Study Center and provides coaching and consulting focused on performance improvement and leadership development.

As a coach, he facilitates the ability of physicians to develop their capacities for successful medical practice: resilience to cope with burnout stress, organization and teamwork for efficient practice, skills for collaborative collegial relationships, and strategies for career development. He provides a particular focus on developing relational skills for effective strategy deployment and performance management.

Les is a Harnisch Scholar at the Institute of Coaching in Boston, serving as the principal investigator for a randomized controlled study of a coaching intervention to reduce physician burnout, establishing the value of brief coaching to reduce burnout and increase physicians’ psychological well-being, engagement, and job satisfaction.

Les is the host of MedPEP – the Medical Professionals Empowerment Program, a 20-episode podcast providing multifold answers to the physician burnout problem, with each episode featuring an expert’s dialogue about a particular solution. The podcast offers free CME at www.medpep.org.

Les is a standing member of the faculty for Managing Workplace Conflict and a member of the Standing Committee of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for Lawyer Well-being.

Les lives in Newton, MA. He has 2 grown children, both in creative enterprises. For his leisure time, Les enjoys bicycling, gardening, drawing, and amateur astronomy.

“I’ve had a long and satisfying career as a physician and healthcare leader, and my aim has always been to make healthcare itself a healthy experience for its participants. In my clinical career that meant delivering an empathic and instructive patient experience; in my administrative roles, it meant building an organizational infrastructure and culture of clinician wellness and efficacy.

My ten-year career as a coach – for practicing physicians and physician leaders alike – has enabled me to take the most useful elements of those conversations and focus them to help my clients identify their purposes, articulate their goals, and find the voice to transact them. It’s a process of inquiry to see their world through their eyes and dialogue as a thought partner to find a way forward in measured and meaningful ways.

At no prior time in my professional life has there been such great pressure on physicians to accomplish their goals nor such great systemic difficulty obstructing them. Coaching, in contrast, is a way to develop personal resilience, focus on what could be attainable at work, and advocate for oneself to get there. It is a centering experience and one I’ve really enjoyed creating in partnering with my clients.”