Amanda (Mandy) J Brisebois
MSc, MD, FRCPC, FACP, AoADI, CEC
Wellness and Executive Coach, General Medicine and Palliative Medicine Specialist with focus on chronic illness care in a virtual setting. Medical Director Palliative Institute Covenant. Clinical Professor UofA, ACMO Covenant.
Dr. Brisebois is a certified Wellness and Executive Coach (with specialization in healthcare in process), a General Internal Medicine and Palliative Medicine Specialist, as well as having extensive training in leadership, conflict, negotiation, mediation, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). She has served as the Medical Director for a large 360 bed hospital, the Medical Director of the Covenant Palliative Care Institute, as well as an Associate Chief Medical Officer of Covenant Health. She is 2 months from completing her Master Management (International Health Leadership) through McGill University and has trained at multiple world-renowned organizations including the Mayo Clinic, Berkeley, Oxford, UBC, and the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Her leadership specialty is helping practitioners and teams find success through conflict, and learn from these successes to create happier, more efficient, and more effective healthcare teams. She has been a keynote speaker at many international events, is a multi-award-winning educator, has successfully innovated in the leadership, conflict, negotiation, and EDI space. She is a published author in her fields of expertise and has multiple speaking and writing projects in process on this subject. Dr B (as her patients call her) helps all people master a 5 module, stepwise approach to successful conflict conciliation, that has yet to fail. This process brings people together and teaches people, regardless of personality or conflict management style, how to be mindful in the moment by working through the conflicts that we have forgotten are impacting us so deeply in a physical and mental capacity.