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Karen Meyers

wellness, financial wellness, mindset coaching and education

America/Chicago (UTC-5)
English

5.0 (1)

About

As the CEO and Founder of StratWell Enterprises and Wellness Program Director at the Foundation for Financial Wellness, I have led innovative wellness initiatives that focus on behavior change / mindset improvement, fitness, nutrition, stress management, financial wellness and the development of Wellness Champions. My approach blends evidence-based strategies with personalized, engaging content designed to meet the unique needs of participants. I have successfully delivered wellness programs to diverse populations, including corporate employees, where I've enhanced productivity, engagement, and overall well-being. My expertise also lies in the area of mindset reframing to guide individuals toward achieving their goals professionally and personally. Self-awareness is a key underlying aspect of personal transformation and goal attainment. Behavioral studies are near and dear to my heart and I seek to equip individuals and organizations with this aspect of personal growth. Throughout my career at NASA and the Foundation for Financial Wellness, I developed and implemented wellness programs that aligned with organizational goals and reached participants across various departments. I focus on data-driven outcomes, program improvement, and foster a culture of well-being. Through my leadership and strategic planning, I am able to help individuals better manage their financial, physical and mental health, contributing to the overall success of organizational wellness initiatives.

Key Skills

Experience

WELLNESS & MINDSET TRAINER, EDUCATOR, CEO & FOUNDER | StratWell Enterprises, LLC

Nov 2011 - Present
Extensive expertise educating individuals and teams regarding personal well-being with an emphasis on behavior change. Wellness disciplines included are behavior change, fitness, nutrition, stress management and financial wellness. Provide behavior change and wellness education, self-motivation techniques and action plan design tools in interactive hands-on, individual and group forums. The programs include training curricula, associated materials, personnel, outcomes measures and recommendations for sustainable healthy behaviors. Provide wellness program consulting and coordination grounded in emergent industry approaches, strategic integrated marketing, and analytical data review to maximize wellness program effectiveness and reach. WELLNESS EDUCATOR / TRAINER / MENTOR: • Educator, StratWell and Foundation for Financial Wellness Educational Programs, 2011 - present • Educator, StratWell Behavior Change Coaching Workshop, NASA Occupational Health Meeting, 2015 • Educator, StratWell Financial Wellbeing Intro Series, Weingarten Realty, 2015 • Presenter, StratWell Personal and Organizational Productivity Series, Brevard Workforce, 2014 • Educator, StratWell Behavior Change Program, Brevard Workforce, 2013, 2014 • Presenter, HR Houston, Gulf Coast Symposium, Financial Wellness Workshop, Houston, TX, 2013, 2014 • Presenter, The Institute for Healthcare Consumerism, Financial Wellness Workshops, 2013, 2014

WELLNESS PROGRAM DIRECTOR, TRAINER / EDUCATOR & COACH | Foundation for Financial Wellness

Nov 2011 - Present
Develop, deliver and refine strategic behavior-based approaches for Wellness Programs. Provide engaging Wellness training and mentoring related to behavior change and personal financial improvement. Guide a variety of individuals toward developing financial health esteem and personal improvement. Provide analytical data, population and infrastructure reviews, integrate marketing strategies with measures, and assess program reach, effectiveness and Return on Investment. WELLNESS EDUCATOR / TRAINER / MENTOR: • Educator, StratWell and Foundation for Financial Wellness Educational Programs, 2011 - present

WELLNESS TRAINER / EDUCATOR & PROGRAM PROJECT MANAGER | NASA Johnson Space Center

Feb 2008 - Nov 2011
Develop and deliver population specific wellness mentoring, program awareness and education with ability to effectively communicate wellness education to a variety of students. Teach wellness classes in the topics of personal finance, fitness, nutrition, stress management, and behavior change. Employ leadership, corporate integration and program refinement of the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Wellness Program. Perform data analysis, program review, design and reporting to JSC and NASA Agency management. Develop integrated marketing plans with measures. Design and manage a wellness website with 100% employee population penetration within 2 years. WELLNESS EDUCATOR / TRAINER / MENTOR: • Presenter, The Case for Wellness Management Meetings, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2009-2011 • Mentor, Engineering Division Wellness Mentorship, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2009-2011 • Mentor, Mission Ops Support Branch Wellness Mentorship, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2010-2011 • Instructor, behavior change, clinical health and wellness classes, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2009-2011 • Instructor, general health education classes, Engineering Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2004-2007 AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS: • Superior Accomplishment Award, Project Manager, JSC Wellness Program, 2009 • Recognition of Excellence Award, Project Manager, JSC Wellness Program, 2009 • Distinguished Performance Award (Monetary), Project Manager, JSC Wellness Program, 2008/2009 Published in multiple peer-reviewed technical and medical journals during employment at NASA, Lockheed Martin, National Institutes of Health and Georgetown University.

PROJECT MANAGER & ENGINEER | NASA Johnson Space Center and Lockheed Martin

Aug 1996 - Feb 2008
Manage a $42 Million dollar project for the International Space Station with a team of 30+ employees, develop and monitor work plans, budget and schedules. Apply innovative cost reduction with savings of over $7.5M while maintaining quality and cohesion during severe budget reductions. Design, develop and test life support systems for Astronauts living and working onboard the International Space Station. Work efficiently and effectively in an individual and group environment. Ability to communicate complex technological issues with colleagues, management and the public through public awareness efforts. AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS: • Center Director Commendation Award (Monetary), Console Lead, ISS Life Support Console, 2008 • Distinguished Performance Award (Monetary), Life Support Console Lead, 2006/2007 • NASA Space Flight Awareness Award, Human Test Subject, Lunar-Mars Life Support Test Project, 1997 Published in multiple peer-reviewed technical and medical journals during employment at NASA, Lockheed Martin, National Institutes of Health and Georgetown University.

LEAD EDUCATOR & PROJECT MANAGER – EDUCATION OUTREACH PROGRAM | NASA Johnson Space Center

Apr 1997 - Oct 2000
Design, develop, and present life support education materials to students, educators, and industry locally and abroad. Design and participate in interactive life support educational events and projects for a variety of organizations, groups and individuals. Invited Special Guest Speaker at various NASA events regarding living and working onboard the International Space station and Shuttle. ENGINEERING SPEAKER / EDUCATOR: • Invited Guest Speaker, Speaker Panel, WorldCom Conference, San Antonio, TX, 1998 • Invited Guest Speaker, Boston Museum of Science, Boston, MA, 1998 • Instructor, Science for Girls Program, University of Houston, Clear Lake, TX, 1998

SUPERVISOR & CLINICAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT | National Institutes of Health, Georgetown University & Medical Center Hospital of VT

Jun 1983 - Mar 1996
Supervise surgical dissection laboratory and specimen processing in fast paced clinical environment. Develop procedure manuals and tissue processing kits for staff physicians. Effectively communicate process improvements and plans to Senior Management. Develop, test, and perform molecular and cellular treatments for brain cell malfunction, including validation with clinical therapeutics. Explain biomedical approaches and testing to colleagues and the general public at various outreach events and conferences. Develop procedure manuals and protocols. Research expertise equivalent to master’s level. Biomedical Research, Immunology & Virology Department at Georgetown University. Develop, test, and perform immunological assays for detection of HIV. Develop test protocols, provide content for scientific, peer-reviewed publications and provide education at conferences and outreach activities.

Education & Certificates

Certified Financial Wellness Coach™

Foundation for Financial Wellness
Feb 2025

Certified Financial Wellness Educator™

Foundation for Financial Wellness
Jan 2015

Masters in Technical Management

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Feb 2005

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering

University of Maryland at College Park
Dec 1995

Testimonials

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StratWell Student & Client Feedback

1 week ago
STRATWELL STUDENT COMMENTS: “This series is probably the best single source and extremely well done. I feel better able to make choices to positively influence my health, well-being, and productivity." REAL-WORLD SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR BUSY PEOPLE: • "So far this is the best briefing on health, all the parts that effect it, and done so in a manner that anyone can understand. I have encouraged office mates to look at this and I have downloaded charts to help map my health plan and information searched on the internet.“ SELF-DIRECTED MOTIVATION AND HIGH QUALITY WELL-BEING EDUCATION: • “The lectures provide motivation to improve my life and make quality health decisions. Karen is a skilled lecturer providing an appropriate level of information and resources to care for ourselves.“ • "I have found that these webinars help stimulate dialog with my co-workers which in turn help motivate me to use new techniques and implement some of the changes suggested." REVEALS PERSONAL HEALTH BARRIERS AND CREATES CONNECTIONS OF SHARED VALUE TO OTHERS: • "I now know where I am and better understand why I might not have succeeded before, working around the barriers identified, to make the positive changes in my lifestyle to be my best ME. Thanks for this series. I have enjoyed it very much and have learned a great deal." • "I enjoyed it very much. I have shared the information in the past with my two sons and husband, and feel this is very worthwhile." • "I have learned things that I've implemented in my life to maintain a healthy level. I've also shared some of what I've learned with my friends." STRATWELL CLIENT COMMENTS: • “Karen was extremely thorough and consistently organized to make sure these programs were available to, and met the needs of, all employees. During the series she kept lines of communication open between participants and instructors which enabled making real-time changes to the curriculum, organizational goals and employee feedback.” • ”Karen Meyers, our Financial Wellness Class Coordinator, set up all the components of the program to include weekly emails for me to send out. I spent little to no time working on the program, it was all done for me! One aspect of the Financial Wellness Program that our employees enjoyed and found to be personal and engaging were the live webinars, which were live with an expert. During implementation I sent Karen all of our organization’s benefit information and she included those benefits as part of the educational content and live webinars. Our employees were taught not just about the principles of Financial Wellness, but also what benefits our organization provides to help them meet their goals. Lastly, the Financial Wellness Program was designed to build the employees personal financial knowledge from the ground up and include educational content for our employees on all aspects of financial wellness through different stages of life. The online content set the ground work for each educational topic and then the live webinars were used to dive deeper into each topic and be a time where employees could ask questions.”

Schedule a Session

Optional Workshop Enhancements (Additional Support / Materials)

15 min
$1200 for 16 sessions
Enhancements include participant self-reflective worksheets, engagement challenges, topic teasers, and program marketing email copy & images.

Consulting Call

30 min
Free
Tailored advice and actionable solutions for immediate interests and challenges.

Employer Wellness Workshops

60 min
$1200 for 4 sessions
Employee wellness workshops that develop health esteem in topics of behavior change, fitness, nutrition, stress management and financial well-being.

Financial Well-being Workshops

60 min
$1500 for 5 sessions
Development of financial health esteem including financial behavioral awareness, budgets, savings improvement, debt reduction and investing.

Leadership Wellness Champions Training

60 min
$1600 for 4 sessions
Development of wellness core leadership abilities for successful wellness program delivery and employee engagement.

Mindset Reframing Workshops

60 min
$1200 for 4 sessions
Assessment of personal competencies, hidden thought barriers to success, self confidence, efficacy, readiness levels and strategies for improvement.

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