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Executive Director - Debbie Smith, M.A.
Debbie is a Life Strategist and Consultant who has a passion for working with female professionals and the unique challenges that surround their lives. Debbie spent 15 years in various financial and business leadership positions, which provides her with a fundamental understanding of the unique issues that female professionals face. Debbie is a graduate of Milligan College and has a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling as well as certification as a Hudson Institute Coach. Debbie is passionate about helping women discover their unique design and abilities so that they can live their lives with purpose and meaning. She is an aunt to three nieces and one nephew and lives in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Board of Directors
Ken Edwards, M.Div., M.A.
Ken is a partner with Creekside Partners & Associates, LLC, a life coaching and consulting group. Ken provides individual executive coaching as well as organizational consulting and training. Ken is a graduate of the University of Arkansas with a degree in Education and has earned a Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling and a Master of Arts in Religious Education from Southwestern Seminary. He and his wife Janet have three sons and live in Franklin, Tennessee.
Jill Jones, M.D.
Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School and a practicing physician within the Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Group. She is a graduate of Lawrence University, attended Stanford University School of Medicine and completed her residency training in General Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. Jill is a faculty sponsor of the CWM elective course being piloted at Vanderbilt University Medical School and is actively involved in mentoring students and residents as part of her faculty role. Jill and her husband Tim (also a physician) have two children and live in Nashville, Tennessee.
Gail Worsham Pitt, M.A.
Gail has been a spiritual director since 2003 and a therapist in private practice over the last 19 years. She has a Masters in counseling from the University of Pennsylvania at Shippensburg and a Masters in Biblical Counseling from Colorado Christian University. She received certification in Spiritual Direction from The Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Gail works with individuals and church staffs in spiritual direction, spiritual direction groups and on directed silent retreat. She lives in Nashville, TN and is the mother of four adult children, one daughter-in-law, and has one grandson.
Andrew A. Michel, M.D.
Dr. Michel is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt Medical School. Dr. Michel also works part-time at the VA Medical Center in the outpatient mental health clinic. In addition to his clinical work, he is currently a Stahlman Scholar through the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society where his research interest is the interface of philosophy (ethics), theology (religion, spirituality), and the discipline of Psychiatry. Dr. Michel is a graduate of Baylor University and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and he completed postgraduate training in Adult Psychiatry at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Dr. Michel is married and is the proud father of three children.
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