Kelly Schoonaert

Experience and Interests

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor/Director of Health and Wellness Management Master’s Degree Program (August 2005-present)
• Director of Experiential Learning – The Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology at Ball State University (2000-2006)
• Assistant Professor Ball State University (2003-2006)
• Coordinator of Residential Life-The Indiana Academy of Science, Mathematics, and Humanities (1995-2000)

Research Interests

• Motivational Interviewing/Health and Wellness Coaching
• Metatheoretical Constructs in Decision Making

Accomplishment

• Certified Intrinsic Coach

Involvement

Campus

• Faculty Athletics Representative for N.C.A.A.
• Advisor to the National Wellness Institute Student Group

Community

• Wausau Community Theater Board Member and Director

Presentations and Publications

Fun Facts

Best advice you ever received?

Attitude is everything.

What did you want to be when you were growing up?

The first female Major League Baseball umpire

Favorite Quote?

Divine mind has always met every human need. – Mary Baker Eddy

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Credited to Albert Einstein

One thing about your school that you are most proud of?

First Health Promotion major in the United States

What do you enjoy most about teaching?

Seeing the evolution of self-esteem and self-identity in our students over the years that we see them.

A piece of advice for students in your school?

Engage. You have to put yourself out there. IF you are not stepping outside your comfort zone to expand it (safely), you’re not doing something right.