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Hi all! Lena here. Love attracts love and here I am ☺️. An old public health nurse at heart, my years of home visiting resource-poor families in the panhandle of Florida has kept my later DrPH and CDC health research years grounded in the reality of our patients’ lives. Connected to and growing love in our world, I’ve used HeartMath to improve my own heart-brain coherence and if you’re not familiar with their research on love, I highly recommend taking a look. https://www.heartmath.org

I'm Linda Roszak Burton, an executive and well-being coach. I'm honored to be a member of this consortium as it supports my commitment to applying evidence-based coaching methodologies in positive psychology, neuroscience, gratitude, and positive organisational scholarship to foster healthy work environments and further promote humanism in healthcare. As an academic researcher, I study the benefits of gratitude for individual health and well-being, as well as its role in fostering a positive work environment. I'm currently researching strategies to support the mental health of nurses, managers and support staff: Leading, Connecting, Coping: Nurses' Responses to Sustaining Well-being in Crisis Conditions, a collaboration with James Cook University (Australia) and Anglia Ruskin University (UK). Our recent work includes a 2024 publication: Gratitude interventions to improve well-being and resilience of graduate nurses transitioning to practice: A scoping review. My 2019 study showed significant improvements (p<0.001) in employee engagement and meaningfulness of work. I write a feature series on gratitude for the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly. I'm the author of Gratitude Heals© A Journal for Inspiration and Guidance, and my TEDx Talk, The Power of Gratitude to Heal the World, was released in December 2022.