Dr. Linda Bark

Linda Bark, PhD, RN, MCC, NC-BC, NBC-HWC has created new professional pathways in coaching and healthcare. In 1970 she was a pioneer in starting a nursing private practice and brought holistic nursing to hospitals in the 1980s. During the next decade, she led medical tours to China, lived in China to discover how to help Westerners create a context for Eastern healing, and consulted for organizations nationwide to start integral/holistic healing centers. Using her coaching model principles, she still works with organizations to build healthy cultures. She continues to teach her Wisdom of the Whole® coaching model internationally at such institutions as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and KPMG in India. She also works in her private practice as a life/health/ business/executive/mentor coach. She has an award-winning coaching textbook and has been instrumental in creating national board certifications for both the Nurse Coach and the Health and Wellness Coach. Her formal education includes two nursing degrees, a master’s degree in Life Transition Counseling, a certificate in Integral Health Studies, a PhD in Philosophy, and post-graduate studies in Indian Spirituality. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area and frequently travels to rural Nevada to visit her family, where she is involved with her grandchildren’s many 4-H projects with goats, rabbits, horses, cats, and dogs. She finds these trips a nice balance to her city life and work.