Meet our team
Founder
Corey L. Martin, MD
Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator
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 the Bounce Back Project, practicing private group physician, former Bush Fellow, Chief Medical Officer, and lead physician in response to clinician burnout. 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 Dare to Lead 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 which he has recently turned into an event center. He lives in Maple Lake, MN with his three daughters. He is a recovering perfectionist and an aspiring “good enoughist”.
Facilitators
ROBERTA CASSIDY, PHD, RN
Roberta Cassidy is a highly experienced leader who has served in various 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.
KIM SCHWARTZ, NCC
Kim Schwartz is the founding CEO of Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Eastern North Carolina, and a National Board Certified Counselor. With over 30 years of experience in healthcare and counseling, she now works as a consultant, helping leaders and organizations across the country reconnect with the joy and purpose of their work.
As a certified facilitator of Courage to Lead retreats, Kim is deeply committed to creating supportive spaces that empower participants to explore meaning, purpose, and personal renewal. She guides individuals and teams through reflective practices that foster growth, resilience, and enhanced leadership. Kim has been an active participant in Center for Courage & Renewal programs since 2011 and is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences. Her professional affiliations span multiple sectors, and she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her work. Kim is also known as "Mimi" to her seven beloved grandchildren.
JOSH WHITMAN, phd
Josh 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.
MARY MESSINA
Mary strives to be a catalyst for change. She strongly believes in moving towards purpose and meaning by avoiding the focus on what people don't want. Her superpower lies in emotional intelligence (EQ). Mary possesses the ability to quickly understand the motivations, energies, processes, and needs of people, enabling a fulfilling and satisfying life.
Mary's expertise lies in generating momentum. She leads with infectious energy and an open heart, strengthening relationships and propelling progress. Mary specializes in developing and conducting courses that lead to lasting transformation. With over 25 years of experience, Mary has worked with individuals striving for excellence in both personal and professional lives. Through a diverse range of experiences, including traditional business environments, personal retreats, and one-on-one work, Mary has gained a unique advantage that has contributed to her own growth and understanding. Her ultimate goal is to dismantle the narratives that keep problems in place, hindering fulfillment, satisfaction, and self-nurturing.
Collaborators
DR. DON DREW, EDD
Don is a Professor Emeritus and scholar with over 25 years expertise in the field of human enterprise development. His goal is to help others learn to thrive despite personal or career crisis or burnout. Don has experienced a lot of loss during his life and brings a special awareness to others experiencing grief of all kinds. He is a partner in re/MIND LLC, an organization designed to help others find personal meaning, integration, navigation, and development, and co-host of the podcast Peaceful Life Radio with weekly programming for growing people experiencing the second half of their life. He is also an adventurer having served a career in the military, traveling to over 50 countries, and being certified as an underwater rescue diver. These days his activities are more limited to cycling and hiking.
He is the Merrick Award winner for teaching excellence and holds two master’s degrees in Human Relations and Theology, and a doctorate in Education. Don lives in Edmond, OK with his wife Christy, and is the proud father or “Poppy” to 6 others. He is all about finding peace for himself and others.
AUGUSTA AND DAVID KANTRA
Augusta and David Kantra, married for almost 40 years, are co-founders & co-owners of the Center for Calm Living in Fairhope, Alabama. There, along with their two grown daughters, who are also therapists, they practice psychotherapy and provide a variety of groups & workshops in yoga, mindfulness, personal growth, and life improvement. Both Augusta & David are psychotherapists, advanced Yoga Teacher Trainers (E-RYT 500), and Certified Professional Mindfulness Teachers (CPMT). The Kantras have conducted yoga and mindfulness trainings at their CALM Living Studio, also in Fairhope, Alabama, for over 10 years.
Trained by Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Rolf Gates, Martin Seligman, Phillip Moffitt, and Pema Chodron, the Kantras bring together teachings from psychology, mindfulness, business, and Eastern philosophy to illuminate and instruct others in ways to open the heart and connect the mind, body, and spirit.
Mark Greenawald, MD
Mark Greenawald, MD is Professor and Vice Chair of Family Medicine and Community Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTC) and presently serves as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Well-being and Professional Development and as residency program faculty for the Carilion Clinic Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Mark has devoted much of his career to advancing clinician leadership development as well as to clinician and care-team well-being. Mark did his coach training with Corporate Coach University in 2002 and since 2014 has served as faculty for the Healthcare Coaching Institute, a coach training program that focuses on preparing professional coaches to work in healthcare.
Mark and his wife Joanne, who is trained as an Adult and Child Psychiatrist, reside in Roanoke, VA. In his spare time you will find Mark stand-up paddleboarding year round, writing poetry, blogging, singing, and perpetually trying to learn how to say “no, thank you.”
CHRISTY VINCENT, phd
Christy is a communication specialist with years of experience in organization development and conflict management. She coaches individuals to increase their interpersonal effectiveness by supporting them as they identify and create the outcomes they desire. She accomplishes this by bringing openness, acceptance, and curiosity to her coaching sessions. Christy is certified to administer several assessments designed to increase clients’ self-awareness, and she is an ACE Certified Coach and a Three Vital Questions (3VQ) facilitator. She has a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Oklahoma and a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University School of Law. Christy is also an award-winning university professor. Her life's work has been spent helping people to bring the best of who they are to what they do every day. She and her husband Don live in Oklahoma with a wonderful group of “yours” and “mine” who have become “ours” children and grandchildren.
jill hauwiller
Jill Hauwiller brings over 25 years of leadership development expertise, guiding hundreds of professionals globally in leadership effectiveness, emotional intelligence, and team building. With her sophisticated confidence and strategic insight, Jill quickly builds trust while maintaining the highest standards of confidentiality. A certified yoga teacher and Reiki Master credentialed through the University of Minnesota, she integrates holistic approaches into her leadership consulting work.
Jill holds ICF executive coaching credentials and numerous certifications in leadership assessment and facilitation. Her experience spans healthcare, med-tech/biopharma, global manufacturing, professional services, and higher education, with particular expertise in guiding leaders through critical transitions. She teaches in Executive Education programs and presents globally on leadership development. Based in Minneapolis, Jill's farm upbringing instilled a strong work ethic and authentic approach that resonates with clients seeking transformative leadership experiences.
David Freeman
David Freeman is currently the Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church of Little Rock. He has been in pastoral ministry since finishing seminary at Emory University in 2003. In an attempt to face his own bedevilments of perfectionism and people-pleasing, he began studying the work of Brene’ Brown which continues to challenge and transform him.
David became a Certified Daring Way Facilitator in 2017 and shares this work with other clergy and laity around the state of Arkansas mainly through retreats and workshops. He is married to Katie, who is a therapist, and together they are trying to show their two daughters as much of the world as possible before they leave for college in a few years. After many years of being an avid marathon runner, David’s joints asked him to slow down and spend more time hiking, which he loves. He also loves hanging out with his two best friends, Charlie and Slider.
Kate Ryan Reiling, MBA
Kate has a background in coaching, entrepreneurship, and education. She likes to make sense out of chaos, to synthesize disparate parts into a unified framework. She is a creative pragmatist, an optimistic realist who likes to dream big but can get stuff done (first born, enneagram 3). Kate loves the space between the strategic plan and the detailed implementation, that interstitial world where the work is multi-faceted, the destination unknown and where the next steps require both imagination and systematic decision making.
Kate loves coaching people because she believes in nurturing an individual’s own capacity to lead, to wonder, to dream and to build possibilities beyond what they originally thought they were capable of doing.
She holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA from Macalester College. She lives in Minneapolis with her daughter, two dogs, a hamster, three fish and two snails.
