Who We Are
As founder of ThriveCore, Bobbi Newman has spent nearly a decade partnering with hundreds of organizations to build well-being strategies that hold up under real growth, real stress, and real change. Her work is grounded in both academic rigor and hands-on practice: she holds a Yale Certificate in the Science of Well-Being and a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction certification, and brings that foundation into every engagement, translating research into strategy that leaders can actually put into action.
Bobbi is a published voice in the field of workplace well-being. She is the author of Fostering Wellness in the Workplace: A Handbook for Libraries and editor of Well-Being in the Library Workplace: A Handbook for Managers, two resources organizations continue to turn to for practical, research-backed guidance on building healthier teams. Her expertise has made her a sought-after keynote speaker at national and international conferences, where she speaks on psychological safety, sustainable culture change, and what it actually takes to move an organization from surviving to thriving.
What sets Bobbi apart is her ability to meet organizations where they are, whether they're just beginning to think about well-being or already deep into a culture initiative that needs a stronger foundation. She combines deep subject-matter expertise with a genuine investment in the people she works with, building trust quickly and helping leaders feel confident taking the next step, even when the path forward feels uncertain.
Bobbi L. Newman
Rocky B. Wehling
Rocky Wehling brings experience in adult learning, leadership development, and digital training design, helping organizations build stronger communication, healthier collaboration, and workplace well-being that sticks. His approach draws on real instructional design principles rather than one-off training sessions, focusing on building skills and habits teams actually carry forward into their day-to-day work.
Rocky is certified across the full Crucial Learning suite, including Crucial Conversations, Crucial Influence, Getting Things Done, and The Power of Habit, giving him a broad toolkit for addressing communication breakdowns, behavior change, and team dynamics from multiple angles. He also holds Effective Facilitator certification through Leadstrat and is a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team member, credentials that reflect both his facilitation skill and his grounding in leadership development best practices.
What distinguishes Rocky's work is his ability to take complex systems and organizational challenges and turn them into learning experiences that feel clear and manageable. Whether he's guiding a team through a major process change or helping leaders build stronger habits of communication, he brings a steady, confidence-building presence that helps people move forward even when the work ahead feels complicated.
Rachel Gatewood
Rachel Gatewood brings more than 12 years of experience helping organizations navigate transformation, build workforce capability, and create learning cultures that last. Her work sits at the intersection of people, process, and performance, backed by a foundation that includes doctoral coursework and comprehensive exams in Educational Psychology, giving her both academic depth and real-world practicality in every engagement.
Rachel has designed and led learning solutions for some of the world's largest organizations, including a first-of-its-kind technology rollout at PepsiCo and enterprise compliance training reaching more than 70,000 employees at Cigna. That experience has given her a firsthand understanding of what it actually takes to drive change in complex corporate environments, knowledge she brings to every organization she partners with, from Fortune 500 companies to government grantees to higher education institutions.
Through customized learning and development strategy, change management planning, instructional design, and facilitated training, Rachel helps organizations close capability gaps, accelerate adoption, and build the internal clarity teams need to move forward with confidence. She is especially skilled at translating complexity into action, taking a tangled business process or a high-stakes system change and turning it into a learning experience that genuinely engages people. Partners consistently describe her as someone who builds trust quickly, brings calm and focus to high-pressure situations, and delivers, even when timelines are tight and the stakes are high.
Founder & Workplace Well-Being Strategist · Author, Speaker, and Certified Practitioner
Certified Workplace Wellness Specialist · Learning & Development Consultant
Learning & Development Strategist, Change Management Consultant, and Instructional Designer
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