Leading by Example: Self Care for the New Year

D'Andrala (DeDe) Alexander is a lifelong public servant and a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor in Texas. Professionally, she has gotten the opportunity to work at various community-oriented organizations, including AmeriCorps VISTA, Habitat for Humanity, Dallas MHMR, and the Dallas County Juvenile Department. In her work, she helped children and families navigate mental health challenges and build their lives back after these mental health crises. In addition to her career as a mental health professional, she works as a community activist and public speaker focusing on mental health, voting rights, and criminal justice reform. Currently, DeDe is a Clinical Manager for the Care Navigation team at Spring Health, helping employees live their best, healthy lives.

D'Andrala (DeDe) Alexander has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and Women & Gender Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master's Degree from the University of Houston Victoria in Forensic Psychology.

It’s Mary’s mission to create a positive experience for Clever employees every day. As Clever’s People Operations Specialist, she leads employee engagement and wellness programs so that employees have the resources they need to show up to work feeling their best, both physically and mentally. She also provides new hire onboarding training and leads additional People processes that support Cleverites. Mary is becoming a certified Gallup Strengths Coach which is a skillset that helps individuals identify and develop their innate capabilities and then apply them to their careers. As a former Division-1 collegiate athlete, Mary is passionate about teamwork, wellness, and personal growth & development. She brings a growth mindset and passion for supporting others every day to the workplace.

Tou Ger Lee is an International Coaches Federation (ICF) Accredited Coach focused on personal transformation. He supports highly ambitious individuals and organizations to become EVEN better versions of who they already are in order to accomplish their goals in a way that not only leads to success, but fulfillment as well. Having trained through one of the finest coaches training programs in the world, Accomplishment Coaching, Tou Ger’s approach is one that provides both profound insight and practical action steps, because insight + action = transformation.

Shlomit Liz Sanders is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in NY and NJ. She has worked in mental health agencies with severely mentally ill populations that created a passion for learning more about trauma and the neuroscience behind it. Shlomit then went on to become a certified clinical trauma professional (CCTP), integrating neuroscience into her psychotherapy and empowering her patients to learn about themselves and how they have an inner ability to heal. She has maintained a private practice for the last six years helping individuals, couples and families with how to have healthy relationships, learn how to thrive with anxiety and depression, as well as providing parenting coaching and educating individuals on how to improve confidence and increase self empowerment.