Members Directory

Founder of Born to Rise,™ Story coach, workshop facilitator, TEDx speaker, author, mindfulness guide and photographer Kim Fuller is an author, TEDx speaker, story and mindfulness coach and founder of Born to Rise™, a women's movement that brings forth the feminine energies of compassion, empathy and courage. Her passion is to help women stand in their power, their story and their beauty so they can live a confident and empowered life. She offers story exchange workshops that build connection, trust and deep listening skills with teams or organizations, leads mindfulness retreats and workshops in corporate and private groups and offers story coaching for leaders and those needing a powerful story for a presentation, to enhance their conversations and as a way to unravel and transform an inner narrative for healing. Kim creates safe and fun spaces to explore vulnerability and connections.

Hello all! This is Kristin Bodiford, located outside of Atlanta, GA, and a lover of global relationships and connections. 🙂 I am so appreciative of being part of a group of people who want to grow and expand our capacities to center love in our work. I appreciate and am hoping to deeply learn about how we can strengthen collective efforts to heal our disconnection from love and each other and how we as human beings can heal wounds we cause in the world (to each other and living systems) for more flourishing futures for all people and other creatures.

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.

Hi, all. I'm Lonnie Hirsch. I am currently co-founder of the Healthcare Reinvention Collaborative and also founder and CEO of Forefront Healthcare Consulting. I have known a number of those here who are leading the development of A Loving Organization Consortium, including Apurv Gupta, David Dibble, and several others in this group. I look forward to contributing and collaborating!

I started my company from my son's NeuroICU room 15 years ago to try to create a semblance of normalcy in our lives. He's a 15-year brain cancer survivor and ThePRFreelancer, Inc., is now 15 years old. We specialize in non-fiction book publicity and work with business leaders and thought leaders from around the world setting up media coverage and related activities globally.

Malaika Simmons is the founder and Chief Empathy Officer for Momentology Media, LLC. She is a Human-Centered Design Strategist, Design Thinking Practitioner and International TEDx speaker. Malaika is a doctoral student in International Psychology focused on Humanitarian Organization Mental Health Systems. She uses her research background in coping with stress and overwhelm, along with her proprietary intentional framework called the Momentology Method™ to align Human-Centered Design approaches to her thought leadership, motivational speaking, empathy-based corporate training, and executive coaching services helping people and teams increase performance, productivity and profit through insight and impact. Malaika has spoken before members of Congress, White House appointees, and Fortune 500 executives. Her mission is to empower 1000 women to empower 1000 women. Globally. She uses the Momentology Method™ to empower women to own businesses, champion public health causes, and excel in corporate and political landscapes to affect change in the lives of those they care for.

I’m a nurse turned entrepreneur and systems-change advocate on a mission to eliminate preventable medical trauma in children. I’m the founder of The Butterfly Pig, where we create realistic, inclusive medical-play tools that help children and families understand, process, and feel safer during medical experiences. Our products are used by 20k+ families, child life specialists, and nurses, and are in over 140 hospitals around the world. I’m also the visionary behind the Innovative Care Institute and the THRIVE network—uniting frontline clinicians across disciplines in reducing the trauma of healthcare.

Dr. Wilde hosts the annual REVITALIZE retreat for physicians and healthcare professionals in Southern Utah. She's the owner of Imagine Pediatrics and assistant professor at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.