Our Faculty: 41 practitioners who know the work from the inside.

Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Attorney Wellness Project. Attorney with 15+ years across the federal sector, Goldman Sachs, and private practice. Ran a legal office in Europe. VP Employee Relations at a Fortune 50 bank. JAG Corps veteran.

Attorney with 18+ years of leadership experience in the Federal sector. Currently serving as a senior strategic policy advisor for the US Army Labor and Employment Division, Office of The Judge Advocate General's Corps.

Physician founder of Lodestar Consulting. Her more than two-decade career spans patient care, public health programming, nonprofit leadership, and executive coaching. She developed the Trauma-Responsive Professional Coaching framework in response to alarming burnout rates among physician colleagues.

Seasoned attorney and former judge with nearly 45 years of leadership experience in the Army. Culminated as deputy General Counsel for the Army Secretariat and served as General Counsel for all U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Brings a two-decade career as a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Division Director to professional coaching. Celebrated author, Master Trainer, and Executive Coach who co-created the Trauma-Responsive Professional Coaching curriculum and the Trauma Mitigation Master Class.

Certified professional coach, master facilitator, and acclaimed speaker with over 20 years in executive coaching, coach training, and facilitation. Co-developed the Registered Corporate Coach certification.

Held senior positions in academic medicine, public policy, and the payer community. Executive coach for the National Academy of Science and National Academy of Medicine Fellowship Programs. Clinical Professor at George Washington University.

Experienced leader, international leadership consultant, and coach with a decade+ of work across academic medicine, healthcare, legal services, law enforcement, government, and engineering.

CEO of Business Operational Support Services (BOSS), LLC. Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and U.S. Army veteran with 20+ years of expertise. Has worked with organizations including the FDA, USDA, and Pfizer.

Board-certified pediatrician and Fellow in the ACGME inaugural Equity Matters National Initiative. Holds a Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion certification through Northwestern University.

Professional emergency manager with extensive experience in planning, logistics, training, deployment, response, and after-action analysis. Has successfully prepared for and responded to emergencies including terrorist attacks.

MD and MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently on the clinical staff of Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Registered Nurse with her BSN from Barnes College. Spent her career primarily working in critical care across specialties, including at Barnes Hospital (BJC), one of the nation's leading academic medical centers.

Trauma-responsive coach and Occupational Therapist with over 30 years of experience in healthcare, education, and business. Certified through the Coaches Training Institute and the International Coaches Federation.

Certified leadership and executive coach based in Denver, Colorado. Her work centers on amplifying the resilience, self-awareness, and impact of mission-driven leaders. Faculty with the Stanford LEAD Online Business Program.

Physician with more than 20 years of experience as a Board-Certified dermatologist in both academic and private practice settings.

Team and Executive Coach with over 35 years of experience leading teams across manufacturing, military, and technology sectors. International experience including Europe for Cisco. Published author of "Conscious Leadership in Action."

Gastroenterologist, physician coach, and podcaster. Coaches physicians on work-life balance, stress management, reducing overwhelm, and building presence in and out of the clinic.

Associate Professor and Director of Change Management. 20+ years across consulting and academia, specializing in organizational development for leaders in high-stakes environments. Directs a leadership program that has supported 150+ faculty and staff.

Academic anesthesiologist, Certified Life Coach, and published author. Has served as Chief of Staff, Medical Director, Chair of Resident Recruitment, and Chair of The American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Director of Professional Development for Lodestar. Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Medical Education at the California University of Science and Medicine. Author of Premed Prep, published by Rutgers University Press.

Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Co-founded the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association and served on the first Board of Directors for the National Postdoctoral Association.

Leadership and executive coach with over 25 years of experience in healthcare, both as a practicing nurse clinician and as the leader of a multidisciplinary team of hospice professionals.

Director of Data Analytics and Strategy for Lodestar. Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities.

Speaker, trainer, and coach who guides leaders through external and internal communications challenges. Former press secretary to the Illinois Senate President. Associate Provost of Strategy at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

Trained as an attorney, mediator, and restoration practitioner. Works in the area of workplace human rights and complaint resolution. Founder and principal of RESPECT: Conciliation and Education in Toronto, Canada.

Associate Dean and faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Former Assistant Dean at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Tireless advocate for equity in medical education.

Founding Dean of the George Washington University School of Nursing, professor emerita, and certified executive coach from the Hudson Institute. Previously served as Dean and President of two national nursing organizations.

Professor at Intermountain Health and the University of Utah School of Medicine. Adult and Pediatric Critical Care specialist, board-certified in six areas. Was a front-line responder during the COVID pandemic.

Physician, Thought Leader, Consultant, and Master Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming. Founder of the Mind Re-Mapping Co., helping individuals and organizations understand how trauma affects the brain, behavior, and communication.

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Director of the Cook County Health Simulation Center in Chicago. Earned her MSPH from Tulane University and MD from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chief DEI Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System. Co-Director of the ISMMS Center for Anti-racism in Practice.

Combines her academic background and corporate work experience to serve clients as an educator, business consultant, and executive coach. Known for bridging theory and applied practice.

A trauma-responsive Professional Coach and a Certified Life and Engagement Coach. She brings knowledge of psychiatry, addiction, therapy, leadership, and nursing from her prior long career.

A Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine, TIPC certified professional coach, trauma-responsive professional coach and yoga instructor, and a doctor mom. Julia offers Lifestyle Medicine consultations to residents of KY and VA so they may optimize their health, address stress, and other wellness issues.

A board-certified pediatrician practicing in Massachusetts. She is a trauma-responsive certified coach and trained volunteer physician peer supporter through the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety.

A board-certified Internist, expert in physician wellness, EFT tapping practitioner, anti-racism educator, allyship coach, and the CEO of Conscious Anti-Racism, LLC. She is passionate about helping people take responsibility for their problems and teaching them practical, easy, rewarding, and trauma-responsive tools to take self-improvement to the next level.

A physician, coach, author, and speaker who combines executive leadership coaching with the practice of pediatric cardiac anesthesiology. An ICF Certified Coach, Fellow of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard and McLean Hospital, and volunteer Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Cincinnati.

As Lodestar's Communications Director, Neil Gordon draws upon his extensive experience helping experts, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and other visionaries become the face of a movement.

Ivy works as an administrative assistant for Lodestar and is excited to fully engage herself in her role in 2024. She is an art school graduate and an art history award winner. Ivy is a proud cat mom and enjoys traveling, staying active, and being creative during her free time.

Lex is a Lodestar Second Responder (L2R), a trained service dog and valued member of our team whose role is to be a steady, four-legged presence in rooms filled with high-performing and highly depleted human beings, helping everyone to feel neurobiologically less alone.