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Emily Marquis, MA, NBC-HWC

Summary

Senior NBC-HWC mental health coach, curriculum developer, professor/instructor, and consultant with a background in human resources. Dynamic skills working in many industries within organizations and as an entrepreneur.

Overview

2025
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

mindbodygreen

Instructor & Course Designer
02.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Instruct, grade, and mentor within NBCHWC certificate program
  • Develop & instruct course content and alumni events
  • Boosted student performance by providing individualized support and targeted feedback.
  • Increased student participation via engaging lectures and assignments.
  • Developed curriculum and content, ensuring alignment with accreditation regulations
  • Oversaw curriculum development and implementation in alignment with best practices of BCC life coaching course
  • Mentored new teachers
  • Developed course content by creating lecture scripts, filming content for virtual learning, creating live lesson plans, creating quizzes and exams, and created supporting worksheets and handouts
  • Created and delivered continuing education via powerpoint

Emory University

Instructor/Curriculum Developer- Integrated Health
05.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Instruct, grade, and mentor within NBCHWC graduate certificate program
  • Develop & instruct various courses on-demand for Emory corporate contracts including DEI, mental health coaching, mental health in the workplace, chronic condition coaching

University of Vermont

Assistant Professor, Integrated Health
09.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Instruct, grade, and mentor within NBHWC certificate program
  • Collaborate with team for curriculum updates

UC San Diego

Curriculum Developer & Adjunct Professor
11.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Develop NBC-HWC certificate program from scratch
  • Utilized evidence-based materials and NBHWC competencies to create synchronous lecture content, create powerpoints, record lectures, create live lecture lesson plans, create quizzes, supporting handouts, assignments, and required reading list
  • Build course within canvas
  • Instruct and mentor students
  • Grade and support students
  • Enhance program to align with more accreditation standards
  • Collaborate with peer instructors

Northwestern Health Sciences University

Adjunct Professor, Integrated Behavioral Health
09.2023 - 10.2024

Job overview

  • Develop curriculum, instruct, grade, and mentor within Master's of Integrative Health program
  • Create curriculum for synchronous and asynchronous lectures, film on powerpoint
  • Build course materials in Canvas

Training Concepts & Strive Wellbeing

Group Facilitator, Workplace Wellness
06.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Created and delivered corporate wellness workshops, including Vision Boards/Goal Setting, Mindful Leadership, Meditation at Work, Mindful Leadership, Imposter Syndrome, Diabetes Prevention, Burnout Prevention, Mental Health in the Workplace on a contractual basis via powerpoint/slides virtually

Various Contracts

Wellness SME & Business Consultant

Job overview

  • Independently develop and deliver virtual and in-person evidence-based courses, workshops, and trainings around healthy habits, overall well-being, sustainable lifestyle change, and health-specific topics for private practice and other organizations
  • Provide motivational interviewing training to clinics and organizations
  • Chaffee County Public Health: Motivational Interviewing for Health Care Workers, Mindfulness in the Workplace
  • Family Youth Initiatives: Mindfulness & Communication Strategies for Youth Mentors and Stress Coping Strategies for at-risk Youth
  • Paramount Health Directions: Mindful Nutrition for Less Stress
  • Cancer Coach: Developed and designed a seven module/seven hour program on cancer prevention/cancer survivor recovery from concept to product by writing all video scripts, instructional design, workbooks, learning assessments, theories, and images
  • Gannett/USA Today Conference: Mindfulness for the Workplace
  • Western Slope Start-Up Conference: Mindfulness in the Workplace
  • NBHWC Wellness Coaching Conference: Mental Health Prevention with Lifestyle Medicine
  • CC Public Health & National Coalition on Aging: Deliver, coordinate, and facilitate the Aging Mastery Program to local aging adults in partnership with the local public health department and national coalition on aging to deliver group facilitation, education, and coaching on the topic of health and wellness longevity in a 12 week program
  • Full Circle Restorative Justice: Teen mindfulness, yoga, communication, and stress management weekly series

Index Health, Functional Medicine Tele-health

Health Coach, Subject Matter Expert
03.2023 - 09.2023

Job overview

  • Founding health coach of clinic- contracted to research, build, and implement health coaching program into clinic while collaborating with both the operations team and clinicians
  • Developed health coaching job description, workflow, patient engagement/roll out, EMR SOAP notes
  • Contracted to health coach as strategic partner to start-up functional medicine telehealth practice working with health care team to deliver clinical health coaching
  • Met with patients 1:1 via telehealth to support them in implementing doctor and nutrition plans to improve their health
  • Collaborate with clinic providers on case management
  • Respond to patients in between sessions
  • Worked with business side of practice to develop best practices

Emily Marquis, Private Practice

Mental Health Coach
01.2011 - Current

Job overview

  • Individuals, groups, and organizations–virtually and in-person within private practice, practitioner partnership, and organizational contracts
  • Work with clients to reach their optimal level of well-being by creating sustainable healthy habits
  • Specializing in supporting people with mental health
  • Referral partnership with Integrative psychiatric clinic with psychedelic treatments
  • Areas of client topics are chronic illness (prevention, reduction, & maintenance), pain, sustainable weight loss, mindfulness/self-awareness, COPD, smoking cessation, alcohol/substance abuse, healthy eating, positive mindset, relationships, sleep hygiene, stress reduction/management, exercise, and overall health resilience
  • Consulting & program development
  • Contributor through blogs, podcasts, and other media outlets on evidence-based healthy habits and sustainable lifestyle change for health

Chaffee County Community Foundation (501c3)

Program Manager, Contract
04.2020 - 11.2020

Job overview

  • During COVID, organized, recruited, verified and distributed local COVID relief funds to applicants in need
  • Independently organized first large county-wide non-profit summit/conference with speakers, workshops, participation promotion, scheduling, and preparation via zoom over COVID
  • Conducted a local DEI awareness training facilitating a courageous conversation between local officials and people of color via zoom during the George Floyd protests that was records and publicly distributed
  • Worked with board to meet their needs and objectives
  • Performed any duties as assigned by Executive Director

Dartmouth College

Clinical Health Coach
07.2021 - 09.2022

Job overview

  • Participated in a clinical research assignment studying type1 diabetes in young adults under the direction of the clinical research team
  • Work with Endocrinologist and research team to review clinical data of clients and work as a coach directly with clients individually to build adherence to healthy habits for maintaining a healthy life with a chronic illness
  • Assist in developing health coach content and strategies

University of Louisville

Clinical Health Coach
01.2021 - 03.2021

Job overview

  • Participated in research study to collect data on the impacts of coaching on academic students' health and physical activity
  • Created & delivered content and coach students in a group format

Vida Health

Health Coach
09.2020 - 03.2021

Job overview

  • Coached clients nationally in support of their overall health, including chronic illness, diabetes, COPD, smoking cessation, weight loss, movement/exercise, sleep, stress, mindfulness, healthy eating, emotional behaviors, and positive thinking patterns
  • Conducted group and individual coaching virtually via video sessions, phone, and chat

Salida School District / Crest Academy

PE Teacher, Career Consultant
01.2019 - 12.2021

Job overview

  • Part-time physical education teacher at alternative public middle school
  • Created curriculum and organized outdoor education trips
  • Consulted career development programming and organized district-wide middle school career conference

Emily Marquis

Yoga Instructor
01.2017 - Current

Job overview

  • Teach a variety of styles privately, in studios, private group events, corporations, and at retreats
  • Lead an annual mental health retreat partnering with a therapist

Yoga Olas (Yoga Studio)

Studio Manager & Business Consultant

Job overview

  • Leadership, recruitment, succession planning, employee relations, benefits, compensation, employee wellness, training, policy & program development, merger/acquisitions, visa sponsorship, teambuilding, budgeting, strategy, executive coaching, internal & external communications
  • Main teacher at Yoga Studio teaching up to 8 classes per week in styles of Asthanga, Yoga Nidra, Yin, Vinyasa, Sculpt, Hatha, and Restorative
  • Led Book Clubs groups and workshops

CATI & ELCCO Electric (Tech & Construction)

HR Consultant

Job overview

  • Human Resources Consultant: Leadership, recruitment, succession planning, employee relations, benefits, compensation, employee wellness, training, policy & program development, merger/acquisitions, visa sponsorship, teambuilding, budgeting, strategy, executive coaching, internal & external communications

Vivage Quality Partners (Healthcare)

Director of Human Resources
05.2010 - 08.2013

Job overview

  • Led HR department and operations at corporate office with 30 long-term and short-term care facilities
  • Led mergers and acquisitions from HR approach with C-suite
  • Recruitment
  • Benefits & Wellness
  • Compensation
  • HRIS implementation
  • Payroll
  • Led HR Staff of 4
  • Training
  • Onboarding
  • Succession Planning
  • Employee Relations
  • Workers Comp & FMLA
  • Handbook, policy, and culture creation

Coleman Natural Foods (Food Manufacturer)

Corporate Human Resources Manager
10.2008 - 05.2010

Job overview

  • HR leader in corporate office with 4 field manufacturing sites in different states
  • Immigration
  • Union communication/negotiation
  • KPI reporting
  • Recruitment
  • Benefits & Compensation
  • Employee events
  • Wellness
  • Training
  • Employee Relations
  • Communications

Resort at Squaw Creek (Hospitality)

Assistant Director of Human Resources
05.2006 - 09.2008

Job overview

  • Recruitment
  • International Visa Recruitment
  • Immigration
  • Training
  • Employee relations
  • Employee policies
  • Benefits & Compensation
  • Training
  • Traveled to train at other sister hospitality resorts within corporation
  • On-boarding
  • Intern and future leaders recruitment and program development
  • Employee event planning

Powder Corp (Ski/Hospitality)

Human Resources Generalist
10.2005 - 04.2006

Job overview

  • Worker's comp, payroll, recruitment, employee relations
  • Visa worker recruitment and support
  • Relief general manager when not on site

Burton Snowboards (Corporate Headquarters)

Recruiter

Job overview

  • Recruitment
  • Employee event planning
  • Employee relations
  • Internship program recruitment and management

Chaffee County Public Health & National Coalition on Aging

Group Facilitator/Instructor
10.2021 - 12.2023

Job overview

  • Deliver, coordinate, and facilitate the Aging Mastery Program to local aging adults in partnership with the local public health department and national coalition on aging to deliver group facilitation, education, and coaching on the topic of health and wellness longevity in a 12 week program

Various Consulting Projects

Group Facilitator, Subject Matter Expert

Job overview

  • Independently develop and deliver virtual and in-person evidence-based courses, workshops, and trainings around healthy habits, overall well-being, sustainable lifestyle change, and health-specific topics for private practice and other organizations
  • Provide motivational interviewing training to clinics and organizations
  • Recent examples include Motivational Interviewing for Health Care Workers, Mindful Nutrition for Less Stress

Education

Maryland University of Integrative Health

Master of Arts from Health and Wellness Coaching

University Overview

Master of Arts in HWC is based on positive psychology, human behavior change, lifestyle medicine, communication, mindfulness, research literacy, and integrative health.

Regis University

Graduate Work from Organizational Leadership

University of Vermont

Bachelor of Arts from Business Administration

University Overview

Minor/Focus: Psychology

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Group Facilitation
  • Technical & creative writing
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
  • Curriculum Development
  • Integrated Health & Behavioral Health
  • Project & Program Management
  • Content & course development
  • Mentorship
  • Resourceful
  • Health Equity Advocate
  • Human resources

Certification

  • National Board Health & Wellness Coach Certified (NBC-HWC,2021)
  • Board Certified (BCC) Life & Wellness Coach (2011)
  • Completed ICF Approved Coaching Program (2020)
  • 200RYT- Yoga Instructor Yoga Alliance
  • Trauma-Informed Care Training (2022)
  • NAHU Employer Wellness Cert. (2011)
  • Professional in Human Resources (2007)

Affiliations

  • NBHWC
  • ACLM
  • BCC
  • Yoga Alliance

Timeline

Curriculum Developer & Adjunct Professor

UC San Diego
11.2023 - Current

Assistant Professor, Integrated Health

University of Vermont
09.2023 - Current

Adjunct Professor, Integrated Behavioral Health

Northwestern Health Sciences University
09.2023 - 10.2024

Health Coach, Subject Matter Expert

Index Health, Functional Medicine Tele-health
03.2023 - 09.2023

Group Facilitator, Workplace Wellness

Training Concepts & Strive Wellbeing
06.2022 - Current

Group Facilitator/Instructor

Chaffee County Public Health & National Coalition on Aging
10.2021 - 12.2023

Clinical Health Coach

Dartmouth College
07.2021 - 09.2022

Instructor/Curriculum Developer- Integrated Health

Emory University
05.2021 - Current

Instructor & Course Designer

mindbodygreen
02.2021 - Current

Clinical Health Coach

University of Louisville
01.2021 - 03.2021

Health Coach

Vida Health
09.2020 - 03.2021

Program Manager, Contract

Chaffee County Community Foundation (501c3)
04.2020 - 11.2020

PE Teacher, Career Consultant

Salida School District / Crest Academy
01.2019 - 12.2021

Yoga Instructor

Emily Marquis
01.2017 - Current

Mental Health Coach

Emily Marquis, Private Practice
01.2011 - Current

Director of Human Resources

Vivage Quality Partners (Healthcare)
05.2010 - 08.2013

Corporate Human Resources Manager

Coleman Natural Foods (Food Manufacturer)
10.2008 - 05.2010

Assistant Director of Human Resources

Resort at Squaw Creek (Hospitality)
05.2006 - 09.2008

Human Resources Generalist

Powder Corp (Ski/Hospitality)
10.2005 - 04.2006

Regis University

Graduate Work from Organizational Leadership

University of Vermont

Bachelor of Arts from Business Administration

Wellness SME & Business Consultant

Various Contracts

Studio Manager & Business Consultant

Yoga Olas (Yoga Studio)

HR Consultant

CATI & ELCCO Electric (Tech & Construction)

Recruiter

Burton Snowboards (Corporate Headquarters)

Group Facilitator, Subject Matter Expert

Various Consulting Projects

Maryland University of Integrative Health

Master of Arts from Health and Wellness Coaching
Emily Marquis, MA, NBC-HWC