| Betsy Salkind, PCC, NBC-HWC, MCBetsy Salkind is certified by the International Coach Federation (PCC), the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching, and the Mayo Clinic. She served as a faculty member, Associate Director, Lead Mentor Coach, and assessor for the ADAPT Health Coach Training Program. She also works in health tech and private practice. Before stepping into the world of coaching, Betsy spent decades making audiences laugh as a professional stand-up comedian and television writer. Her comedy credits include appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, SHOWTIME’s Fierce Funny Women, and writing for Roseanne and Saturday Night Special. She was also a member of the improv troupes Guilty Children and Terrorist Bridesmaids. Betsy holds a bachelor’s degree from MIT and a master’s in Organization Studies from the Sloan School of Management. She’s taught health empowerment to high school students and improvisation at MIT, Emerson College, AMDA, in corporate settings, and for fellow coaches. Betsy believes creativity, curiosity, and humor are essential to great coaching and teaching, and always strives to bring them to the work she does.
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| Iris E. Fernández Valdés, PCC, NBC-HWCIris Fernández is a certified coach with expertise in mental health coaching with a specialty focus on creative fulfillment and community integration. She was trained at Wellcoaches and has ample clinical experience working closely with counselors, psychologists, and physicians to build robust evidence-based and ethically-scoped coaching services in the health-technology sector. At One Medical she supported the launch of Mindset, a Virtual Coaching and Therapy program, serving both as the clinical operations coordinator and as a stress management group coach. Later, as a lead coach at Wave Life, Iris co-developed an evidence-based and ethically robust suicide ideation response protocol. Iris is also an experienced coach trainer, having designed and facilitated classes for trauma-informed and culturally-responsive coaching at both Wave’s and Wellcoaches’s NBHWC-approved mental health coach training programs. She holds a BA in Computer Science from Brown University. |
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