Roberta Cassidy is a highly experienced leader who has served in a variety of healthcare capacities and settings. Currently, she works as a coach and consultant partnering with individuals and organizations on relationship-based approaches to wellbeing. Roberta’s true passion and path in life is in service to the journey of personal and professional healing and its role in organizational and community wellbeing. Devoted to substantive, sustained change she seeks to inspire healing within to transform ourselves and our communities in service to the greater good. Certified as a Holistic Nurse, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Forest Therapy Guide, she provides wellbeing consultations and services including guided Nature and Forest Therapy walks for individual, group and corporate events. Roberta lives in Minneapolis and spends her time outdoors sauntering, bicycling and kayaking in nature, in addition to her favorite pastime of cheering on her #1 basketball player, her son Gabe.

Corey Martin is a Yale-trained family physician driven to change the delivery of healthcare and improve the mental and physical health of our communities. He is a founder of Innovations in Resilience, practicing private group physician, Bush Fellow, and consultant to many healthcare and educational institutions regarding burnout prevention and wellbeing. Driven to do this work by the loss of two colleagues and friends, Corey strives to create an environment of opportunity in which all of us can do the deep, heartfelt work of changing the way we show up and interact in each other’s lives.  One of the ways he does this is by facilitating resilience retreats across the United States and throughout the world. He is both a Certified Daring Way Facilitator and Center for Courage and Renewal Facilitator and facilitates workshops based on the work of Brené Brown and Parker Palmer. In his free time, he enjoys working on his farm that he has recently turned into an event center. He lives in Buffalo, MN with his wife and three daughters. He is a recovering perfectionist and an aspiring “good enoughist”.

Josh Whitman is a curious heart-centered leader with an entrepreneurial spirit working to live a more examined life. He leverages his rich professional and inner-work experiences to support others as they work to better understand themselves and their impact on their world. While he has always been a spiritual seeker, his focused and intentional journey kicked into high gear after the birth of his first child 13+ years ago. Throughout his professional life, he has worked in the broad fields of public policy, politics, education, and non-profit administration. Most recently, Josh was the Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Courage & Renewal, which brings Parker Palmer’s body of work into the world. In fact, Josh and Corey became fast friends while working on their facilitator training to lead retreats using CCR tools and techniques. Josh has a Ph.D. in Public Policy & Administration. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with his wife and two boys. He enjoys traveling, time with his family, time outdoors, hiking, photography, and lots of dad jokes.

Kim Schwartz, MA, NCC is the former, founding CEO of Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center, a Federally Qualified Community Health Center in Eastern North Carolina and a National Board Certified Counselor.  As a consultant, Kim works with leaders and organizations nationally creating authentic space for reconnecting to the joy of their vocation.  Her focus as a Courage to Lead retreat facilitator is in nurturing supportive communities giving participants the space to explore meaning and purpose. Kim has been an active participant in CCR programs nationally since 2011. Kim has many professional affiliations and frequently presents at national and regional conferences.  She is also known as Mimi to seven grandchildren!

Mary Messina has been privileged to have a successful career that empowers people and performance.  She is a business engagement leader with proven success across diverse range of experiences. For twenty years Mary has delivered leadership training and practices that consistently delivers results. Mary is a passionate, energetic innovator committed to the idea that business can be a force for good in the world.  Described as a thoughtful and accountable leader, she successfully leads across the organization to influence partners and deliver tangible results. She is known for her ability to engage individuals and build teams people want to be on.