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 resiliency and leadership in the Public Health graduate program of the Department of Community Medicine at West Virginia University Medical School. She is on the Advisory Board of the Faculty Development Committee at WVU Health Sciences Center; she is the founding Leadership Director of the Center for Excellence in Women’s Health, a member of the Women in Sciences and Health Committee, and a mentor for the WVU Teaching Scholars Program, for which she has developed an on-line leadership seminar. 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 has been a college instructor, an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, an entrepreneur and a business consultant. For the past 20 years, her work has focused on MCT and resiliency and the innate capacity of people to realize the power of peace of mind to affect their psychological, physical and spiritual well-being.

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