Jillian Rigert, DMD, MD, ACC

As a clinician-researcher and military veteran with personal experience navigating burnout, moral injury, and career pivots, Jillian understands the impact of systemic challenges and societal pressures on personal and professional well-being. She helps clients regain agency and empowerment which often results in improved leadership performance, career fulfillment and sustainable wellness in their lives, personally and professionally.

Coaching Philosophy

Jillian partners with clients utilizing thought-provoking questions from a place of compassionate curiosity without judgment. She creates a safe container for clients to be vulnerable to explore thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that inform their life and career decisions. Her approach is kind yet challenging, supporting clients to evoke new awareness and overcome stuck points that are limiting their potential.

Results Achieved

In a time with high prevalence of burnout, moral injury, and reduced career fulfillment, Jillian has supported physicians, dentists, and emerging leaders in creating sustainable life and career goals that align with what matters most to them. Her holistic, whole-person approach to coaching has helped clients to reduce burnout and increase life and career fulfillment by supporting them in gaining self-awareness, developing values-based goals, connecting with a sense of meaning and purpose, and optimizing skills to overcome obstacles that are holding them back. Her clients often report improved professional performance, career satisfaction and overall well-being.

Professional/Corporate Experience

• Professional Leadership Coach within a large academic cancer institution
• Creation and facilitation of group coaching workshops for leadership skill development and sustainable wellbeing

Education, Certifications & Awards

• Certified Chief Wellness Officer, The Institute for Physician Wellness

• Certified Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach

• Certified Professional Leadership Coach, Rice University Doerr Institute For New Leaders

• Oral Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center

• MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

• DMD, Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine

• ICF ACC Certified Coach