L. Michelle Martin-Daniels
Summary
Passionate and innovative professional accomplished in delivering creative and impactful behavior change coaching and education. Skilled in facilitating increased self-empowerment in members to support them in leveraging their internal strengths to succeed in sustainable lifestyle change.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Health Coach Educator
Vitality Group
10.2024 - Current
- Conduct one-on-one coaching sessions to provide support and accountability for healthy behavior change
- Present webinars on behavior change, holistic health and wellness topics
- Facilitate health and wellness peer support groups
- Deliver Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) to members with a diabetes diagnosis
- Coach members taking GLP-1 medications on healthy lifestyle behaviors that lead to safe and sustainable weight reduction, and prevention or risk reduction of chronic disease development
LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION SPECIALIST
Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions
12.2022 - 07.2024
- Lead coach serving participants from large employer clients using Johns Hopkins-developed digital diabetes program. Achievements include successfully guiding participants from diabetes A1C range to A1C prediabetes range and improving population health outcomes, including reductions in A1C to prediabetes range, increase in physical activity, and decrease in weight
- Designed innovative health and wellness intervention for prediabetes population of multinational corporation client that has resulted in moving 71% of program participants out of prediabetes range to normal A1C
- Translated and scaled Johns Hopkins hypertension self-management program from live, virtual-delivery format to enhanced, digital platform self-delivery model to successfully expand participant access
LIFESTYLE INTERVENTIONIST
Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions
05.2020 - 11.2022
- Coached large employer client participants in CDC Diabetes Prevention Program
- Actively participated in product development for collaborative ventures with Johns Hopkins faculty in innovative chronic disease management
Education
Master of Arts - Applied Ethics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MDBachelor of Arts - Philosophy
Bates College
Lewiston, MESkills
- Lifestyle Medicine coaching and support
- Facilitation of health behavior change
- Education and empowerment for self-management of chronic disease
- Group facilitation
- Cultural sensitivity, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Empathy, advocacy and support
Accomplishments
- Health Coach, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
- Health and Wellness Lifestyle Coach, Georgetown University
- CDC Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach, University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Prevention and Education
- Advanced Training: Delivering the National DPP through Distance Learning
- Diabetes New Solutions: Medication, Nutrition and More, Maryland Living Well Center of Excellence
- Beginner and Advanced Motivational Interviewing, Institute for Individual and Organizational Change, Maryland Department of Health
- Working with LGBTQ+ Populations in Evidence-Based Programs
- Psychological First Aid, Coursera, Johns Hopkins University
Timeline
Health Coach Educator
Vitality Group
10.2024 - Current
LIFESTYLE INTERVENTION SPECIALIST
Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions
12.2022 - 07.2024
LIFESTYLE INTERVENTIONIST
Johns Hopkins HealthCare Solutions
05.2020 - 11.2022
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy
Bates College
Master of Arts - Applied Ethics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County