Linda Bark, Ph.D., RN, MCC, founder of the Wisdom of the Whole Coaching Academy, is a Board Certified Nurse Coach and a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies in philosophy. She has 25 years of experience coaching in private practice and 20 years of experience training coaches internationally in organizations including Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and KPMG in India. Linda’s textbook, The Wisdom of the Whole: Coaching for Joy, Health, and Success (CreateSpace, 2011), was awarded the American Journal of Nursing 2012 Book of the Year Award for Professional Development and Issues. She was instrumental in creating the Nurse Coach certification through AHNCC and is currently on the executive board of the National Consortium for the Certification of Health and Wellness Coaches (NCCHWC). Her integral coaching model, based on Jean Gebser’s structures of consciousness, is an innovative and unique practical approach for people to increase their sense of ease, fun and fulfillment. Her school is a home for discovery and exploration of a new way of coaching that creates wholeness and benefits the coach, the client and the world.
