2022 Fellows
coaching/advising
Each Fellow will have access to two personal engagement sessions during the course of the program. The purpose of these engagements is to create a supportive frame around your experience to solidify and make sense of your learnings. These sessions also give sufficient space and choice for naming and accompanying your leadership development pathway.
Personal engagement sessions can take three forms—you decide what is right for you! These can be done 1:1 or in self-organized “pods” of up to four.
Coaching: A non-advisory relationship around one’s professional or personal goals using a range of methods from organizational and leadership disciplines. Coaching sessions are with professionally trained & certified executive leadership coaches.
Advising: Sharing professional or subject matter expertise and suggesting solutions to navigate current challenges or pursuits.
Space-holding: Guided sessions or intentional group coaching on topics aligned to our program principles of equity, relationality, emergence, co-creation, and transformation.
Fellows are encouraged to select facilitators from your own cohort and create pods within your cohort. However, if for example, a group of women of color wanted to create a cross-cohort pod with Sahra on “navigating public health careers as a woman of color,” we will absolutely make that happen.
Schedule your sessions directly using the Calendly links below.
Questions? Email Heather!
Cohort 1
gareth durrant
Gareth has coached public health professionals, human rights defenders, and NGO leaders and teams across Asia and the Pacific. He is a recovering goal setter and 10-year planner. Truth bombs and curious questions are his happy place.
Coaching: Life Design Coach for those wishing to ‘Design Your Life’ based on the work of Bill Burnett and Dave Evans from Stanford’s Life Design Lab. Workplace mentorship, support, and connection to resources on self-awareness and leadership development specifically as you step into new leadership roles (inspired by the work of Michael Watkins in his book The First 90 Days and others).
Advising: Career advisory and advocacy planning for those seeking to enhance their public health careers within organizations.
Space holding: Unpacking conflict; navigating queerness in public health careers; developing creative confidence.
sahra noor
Sahra wears multiple hats: mother, public health consultant, healthtech entrepreneur, leadership coach, and facilitator. But at her core, she is an innovator and operator with a global mindset who loves to disrupt the status quo. Sahra enjoys working with emerging and current public health leaders of color who are passionate about health equity and systems change and want to do things differently, blaze a new trail, or lead from the margins with empathy, humor, and confidence.
Coaching: Sahra offers leadership development/executive coaching focused on practical, measurable results for you - no cringe-worthy fluff or academic jargon. Sahra is trained and certified at the Center for Executive Coaching (USA) and utilizes coaching solutions and toolkits from the center. She combines them with the intercultural development continuum, and systems change methodologies to help you gain insights and solutions to the most pressing challenges you face in the workplace.
Advising: Sharing subject matter expertise and practical tips from her journey on how to navigate public health, organization dynamics, and how leaders can break through and carve a path for a career and leadership success by finding their purpose.
Space holding: Facilitating guided discussions on how to break through racism, and gender stereotypes, manage team dynamics, pull up your own chairs to the decision-making tables, and develop a sense of inclusion and belonging within institutions and teams.
Cohort 2
katy grennier
Katy Grennier hates writing this because she knows we are all many things. One hat she loves to wear is her Executive Coach, certified by Berkeley Coaching Institute, which has invited her into coached hundreds of humans around the globe while she does systemic change work across a myriad of complex and difficult issues. She uses active listening coaching methods that ensure the people who work with her can find their own unique answer along the way. Playful, honest, and kind, Katy's beginnings as a survivor of complex trauma helps her to live and rest in a place of empathy and peace alongside whoever is ready to grow so the generations after us can evolve and not repeat.
Coaching: As a certified coach if you think your challenge is too big, complex, or hard to touch, bring it this way. Trauma-informed and conscious of how brilliant our own unique genius is, you won't be alone in digging in to see what you find that will unlock the way you live and work in the world. Bring your grief, trauma, and internal conflicts here to see how they make you unique and beautiful.
Advising: How do we manage the hard things, like conflict, complexity, and how the f*** to deal with everyday life as things pile up. As a systems designer, Katy can help you look at your role and the whole system to figure out what your next steps can be to get past the little things holding us back from shining bright.
Space holding: Anti-white supremacy journeys; grief groups; women and LGBTQI safe spaces; connection tanks that help us connect more to who we want to be.
nana apenem hanson-hall
Nana is an imperfect follower of Jesus, mother of two, and global citizen who happens to work as a public health researcher. She has almost four decades worth of experience being coached by her parents, teachers, track & field coaches, spiritual leaders, and life and career mentors. Nana enjoys passing on their love and energy as she supports inner city youth, emerging public health leaders, and her children in crafting lives that uplift and work for them through individual and collective action. She doesn't always get it right but she is committed to showing up with passion, authenticity, empathy, and respect in any space she occupies.
Advising: Thought partnership and practical/technical accompaniment for those seeking to design inclusive and participatory research or programs and leverage their own unique intersectionalities for careers of purpose and service. Achieving transformation by dismantling oppressive and toxic systems and sitting within the discomforts of liminal spaces.
Space holding: Black experience and holistic wellness across the diaspora; navigating and healing trauma, including religious injury, divorce, family transitions, and abuse; fitness and nutrition at various life stages.
Cohort 3
jason teeters
Jason is a certified soulful facilitator, lifestyle designer, ecosystem builder, and industrial organizational psychologist. He has designed and delivered programs to help people overcome the psychological, emotional, and technical challenges to thriving in a world of constant change. He has coached non-profit leaders, mental health advocates, and food system visionaries to build equitable ecosystems across the U.S. and abroad. He is an unshakeable optimist who wants to inspire people to live a life by design, not by default.
Coaching: Soulful Facilitation for those wishing to introduce a heart-centered, soul-inspired approach for designing and delivering facilitated experiences. Based on the work of Sean Harvey, founder of Sympònia Institute. The Soulful Facilitator holds space for innovative collaboration, compassionate bridge building, redefining leadership models, building connection and belonging, reimagining systems and structures, and transforming cultures.
Advising: Programmatic design and implementation methods for those seeking to create more equitable spaces for long-term impact within organizations and communities.
Space holding: Navigating mental health, and well-being strategies to increase knowledge of how mental health is a resource for personal and professional life, as well as to build and reinforce attitudes about the role mental health plays in our lives.
heather buesseler
Heather is a public health professional of nearly two decades, working in large & small NGOs across the development/humanitarian spectrum, as well as teaching/advising MPH students. She is also a single mom, seeker of wisdom and meaningful human connection, human-centered designer, and midwesterner at heart with a global worldview. Heather is passionate about making the public health profession more compassionate and actively anti-racist. She is a recovering perfectionist, and through her struggles with mental health has become an advocate for intentional rest—productivity is not synonymous with your worth!
Advising: (Re)connecting with your sense of purpose and becoming aligned with your vocational calling. Career advising and exploration, especially for early career public health professionals or for those at an inflection point in their careers. Centering & cultivating compassion in leadership and organizations. Navigating difficult organizational dynamics and politics. How to “influence from underneath”.
Space holding: Decolonization/anti-racism for White womxn; decoupling productivity/perfectionism from one’s sense of self-worth; navigating mental health challenges in the workplace; burnout and moral injury; balancing motherhood, partnership, and professionalism; navigating divorce.