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Kari Allen-Hammer, Ph.D. serves as the Advocacy Director for LiveLifeResources, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. Additionally, she provides wellness and performance coaching in private practice, in West Sacramento, California and through tele-health services. Emily Cashwell is the Director of Education and Research at the Institute for Research and Theory Methodologies (RTM), an organization that trains, mentors, and supports students, faculty, and researchers worldwide in qualitative, multi-method, mixed method, and grounded theory research. She received her doctoral degree in psychology with a specialization in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health from Saybrook University in Pasadena, CA. She has also earned a master’s degree in Nutrition and Integrative Health from Maryland University of Integrative Health and a master’s degree in Special Education from George Mason University. Her research interests include authenticity, the trait of high sensitivity, and experiences of neurodiversity. Gordon Medlock, PhD, is a scholar-practitioner with over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, coaching psychologist, and human capital management consultant. He is currently Director of Doctoral Research at the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential. He has been published in the areas of existential and humanistic psychology and grounded theory and has been trained and mentored by Odis Simmons and Bob Wright in classic grounded theory methodology. He earned a PhD in philosophy from Yale University and a master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of Chicago, and he is an ICF-PCC level coach. He is co-chair of the research committee of the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching, clarifying academic and practice standards for graduate level coach education. Email: gordon@wrightgrad.edu Kianna McCoy graduated with her PhD from Fielding Graduate University in Infant and Early Childhood Development in 2018. In 2003, she graduated from the University of Utah with her Master’s Degree in Occupational Therapy. While attending Fielding, she was mentored by Dr. Susan Stillman to conduct her first classic grounded theory study. Kianna is a licensed occupational therapist in California and has been working with children and families for over 20 years. She has worked as a clinician in a variety of settings, in administration and as an expert training leader for ICDL. Alan Kim-Lok Oh, MCounsPsy, MBA, KB, PA is a consultant psychologist, and clinician at a private hospital. He has a practice that provides consultation, behavioral health screening and assessment, counseling and psychotherapy services to adults, elders, adolescents and children in the following formats – individual, group, family, couple or a combination of these formats based on patient and client needs. Alan is also a registered counsellor in Malaysia. He is completing his doctoral research in psychology at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Together with his wife and daughter, Alan lives in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Patrick A. Palmieri, DHSc, DPhil(Hon), EdS, MBA, MSN, PGDip(Oxon), ACNP, RN, CPHRM, CPHQ, FAAN, Dr. Patrick Palmieri is director of the South American Center for Qualitative Research at the Universidad Norbert Wiener and the founding director of the EBHC South America: A JBI Affiliated Group (https://www.jbisa.org/). He completed a postdoctoral program in caring science (Watson Caring Science Institute) mentored by Dr. Jean Watson and training in evidence-based health care (University of Oxford). He also earned a doctoral degree in health sciences (A.T. Still University) and graduate degrees in nursing (Vanderbilt University), education (University of Missouri), and business administration (Saint Leo University). With extensive experience as a research methodologist and professor of nursing, Dr. Palmier has mentored many doctoral dissertations and numerous research projects. He is an...