Judith A. Sedgeman, EdD , is the Education Director of the West Virginia Initiative for Innate Health at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University. She teaches courses on resiliency and leadership in the Public Health Master’s program of the Department of Community Medicine at West Virginia University Medical School. She is on the Advisory Board of the Faculty Development Committee for the WVU Health Sciences Center and a mentor for the WVU Teaching Scholars Program, for which she has developed an on-line leadership seminar. She was the founding Leadership Director of the Center for Excellence in Women’s Health. She serves as an executive coach, seminar leader and program facilitator for professionals and organizations outside of the University and is an internationally recognized speaker, seminar leader and teacher in the emerging field of Mind-Consciousness-Thought (MCT). Her program, Creating Leadership from Within, has been offered at numerous health organizations in the U.S. and abroad. A graduate of Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, she received her M.A. degree from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, and her doctoral degree from West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. She is Certified as an online Educator by Sloan-C Consortium. She has been a college instructor, an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, an entrepreneur and a business consultant. For more than 20 years, her work has emerged from an understanding of the Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought. All her programs are based on the way in which the Principles elucidate human resiliency and the innate capacity of all people to realize the power of peace of mind to affect their psychological, physical and spiritual well-being. She is Certified by Sydney Banks as an educator in the Three Principles.

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