The Health & Wellness Coach Learning Center

Celebrating Wellness: Insights, Strategies, and Community Engagement

NBHWC CEA-000493-5

Join us for this vibrant panel discussion hosted by Megan Hadley and Jen Wright. This dynamic conversation features experienced health and wellness coaches who share their invaluable insights, powerful strategies, and inspiring success stories.

What You'll Learn...

• Optimal Business Strategies: Megan Hadley and panelists discuss sustainability in coaching, emphasizing essential strategies for maintaining personal well-being while growing your business.

• Empowerment Techniques: Learn empowering mantras for overcoming insecurity and self-doubt by focusing on the many ways you can support others.

• Professional Development: Explore the importance of professional development to stay informed and inspired. Sarah Cameron and Kris Kniefel share how continual learning has shaped their coaching styles and fueled their passion.

• Future of Health Coaching: Stay updated with upcoming events and new competencies in the health and wellness coaching field, including sessions on cultural awareness, motivational interviewing, and the role of community in well-being.

About the Panelists

Megan Hadley, MA, NBC-HWC

Megan Hadley, MA, NBC-HWC is the Founder of Harvest Health and Wellbeing LLC, which supports artists, activists, and academics in recovering from burnout through mindfulness- and nature-based approaches to healing. Since 2019, Megan has provided wellbeing-related coaching and consulting services in Minneapolis, MN and virtually nationwide. She has a graduate degree from the University of Minnesota in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching and a graduate minor in Health Equity through the School of Public Health at UMN.

Megan has coached for health systems, local nonprofits, academic institutions, regional clinics, nationwide practices, and international corporate organizations in addition to taking on private practice clients. Additionally, Megan is a mindfulness instructor trained in facilitating Enhanced Stress Resilience Training (ESRT) at a research level for wellbeing initiatives for healthcare providers. She also is trained in racial justice facilitation through YWCA, and Qigong through Spring Forest Qigong. Megan is the Operations Manager at Wellspired Co., supporting curriculum development and member experience for board-certified coaches seeking professional development and marketing support.

Sarah Cameron, NBC-HWC

Sarah Cameron is a NBC-HWC, a Nationally Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist (and Tobacco Treatment Trainer) and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. By day Sarah is a Senior Research Health Coach for Hennepin Healthcare Research, and by night she trains Child Welfare Social Workers in motivational interviewing. This year was a big year for her, as she launched her own business called Igniting Change Co. (training wellness professionals in MI), and co-wrote and published two motivational interviewing books.  When she is not working, Sarah enjoys thrift shopping, upcycling vintage glass into lawn ornaments, pizza Fridays with her family, and listening to a variety of podcasts on anything from murder mysteries, to gut biome, to peers nerding out about motivational interviewing.

Kerri Weishoff, MS, CCC-SLP, NBC-HWC

Kerri is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBCHWC) with an Integrative Health Coaching Certificate from the University of Minnesota, as well as a Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kerri’s 25-year tenure as a speech pathologist provided her with a deep understanding of healing the whole person through self-awareness, self-care, and values exploration.

She carries this passion and understanding forward in her experience as coaching faculty in the VA Whole Health Coaching program, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and University of Minnesota.

Kerri currently serves as core faculty and mentor in the Veteran Administration (VA) Whole Health Coaching certificate program, training VA employees in an NBHWC – approved coach certificate program. She also provides coaching for students pursuing a coaching certificate and Master’s Degree at the University of Minnesota board-approved coach training program. In addition, Kerri developed a Health Coaching Exam Prep Guide for individuals preparing for the NBHWC National Board Exam, offered through the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Continuing Education Program. Integrating her training as a speech pathologist with coaching, she has also taught various mind-body courses within the University of Wisconsin system.

Beyond training and educating future coaches, Kerri offers coaching to the general public in her private coaching practice. She was drawn to coaching because her experience as a therapist and Director of Rehab and Integrative Health affirmed to her that individuality and self-empowerment is at the core of healing.

She is passionate about guiding her clients to explore their individual level of awareness, self-care, values and strengths to support them in living well day-to-day and within community.

Kris Kniefel, MA, NBC-HWC

Kris is an educator, faculty, mentor and a Functional Medicine and National Board Certified Integrative Wellness Coach.

She values on-going wellness education and has completed studies in mind-body medicine, self-compassion, food as medicine and functional medicine.

Kris is passionate about helping people develop and live their best lives – whether that is through learning new skills or knowledge or learning new behaviors!

Kris teaches and mentors coaching students within the Veteran Administration’s Whole Health Coaching Certification Program, training VA employees in an NBHWC-approved coach certification program. In addition, she has also taught coaching and wellness courses within the University of Wisconsin system. She enjoys providing students with an engaging, experiential learning environment and encouraging their continued growth.

Kris loves to be in nature – whether it’s hiking, biking or paddle boarding. She enjoys entertaining and sharing good food with family and friends.

Kris has a Bachelors’ of Science degree in business from Minnesota State University, Mankato, Masters’ of Art in Human Resources from the University of Minnesota, and coaching certificates from the University of Minnesota and the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy.

What's Included:

• (1) 90-Minute On-Demand Recording of the Special Event

• Certificate of Completion & 1 CEU (NBHWC) after completing & receiving a passing score for the class quiz.

• BONUS - Engaging resources for further reflection and action planning

• BONUS - Lifetime Access to All Class Materials & Resources

How to Access This Training:

Once you complete the checkout process, you will receive an email to your inbox within a few minutes with instructions on how to access your training. All our trainings are located inside Wellspired's Student Learning Portal. If it is your first time purchasing a course or training from us, you will receive instructions on how to log into the Learning Portal and set your password.

How to Get Your CEUs (Approved for 1 CEU through NBHWC):

Once you watch the recorded video, complete the quiz located in Wellspired Student Learning Portal. Upon passing the quiz, a certificate of completion will be emailed to you within 15 minutes.