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How will participants in the Food Coach Academy be advised on career opportunities?

Explore a Career as a Food Coach!

Deb Kennedy, PhD - Explore a Career as a Food Coach!

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This event was on January 3, 2024

Attention Chefs, Home Cooks, Dietitians, Coaches, and Clinicians 🌟 Join us for an enlightening presentation and discover how you can revolutionize your career as a Food Coach! 🌟 Are you passionate about cooking? Do you want to make a positive impact on people's lives through food? This presentation is tailor-made for you! Whether you're a seasoned chef, a home cook, a dietitian, a coach, a community health worker or a clinician, there's an exciting opportunity awaiting you in the world of Food Coaching. 🔍 What You Will Learn: 👩‍🍳 Chefs and Home Cooks: Explore how to leverage your love for cooking and culinary skills to contribute to people's well-being. Learn how to use your kitchen expertise to support individuals on their journey to healing through the power of food. 🍏 Dietitians and Clinicians: Discover how to translate clinical recommendations into practical culinary skill-building strategies. Bridge the gap between nutritional advice and hands-on, enjoyable cooking experiences for your clients. 🤝 Coaches and Community Health Workers: Gain insights into supporting behavioral changes through a practical culinary skill delivery platform. Learn how to empower your clients with tools that extend beyond traditional coaching methods.

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Question

Cathy McConnell

How will participants in the Food Coach Academy be advised on career opportunities?

Answer

Yeah, definitely. We're gonna have a, um, a very robust part of the program, which you have access to all these toolkits. There'll be some affiliate programs to make it easier for you. And the connections that I have and my team have, there'll definitely be opportunities and we'll have whatever other programs usually have with like your alumni opportunities. So we would have a, a website that you can put in that you're looking for a job. We will collect jobs that are available out there so that you can take a look at. But we're gonna support you from the beginning to way past the end. I'm here to guide you every step of the way.

Deb Kennedy, PhD

PhD Nutritionist

drdebkennedy.com

*Deb Kennedy, PhD* nutritionist, chef and Value-Based Medicine certified, is dedicated to helping people improve their health through food. She received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from Tufts University, and previously held roles with Tufts Human Nutrition Research Center for Aging, Yale’s Prevention Research Center, Babies and Children’s Hospital at New York Presbyterian, Cornell University, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She also held the position of first Chair for Best Practices at the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (CIA) and was an instructor in Culinary Nutrition at the New England Culinary Institute. A pioneer in the growing field of culinary medicine, and self-proclaimed food warrior, Dr. Kennedy is the author of multiple books, including The Culinary Medicine Textbook, a five-volume publication to date that uses her research in food, flavor, eating and nutrition to lay out the concepts and fundamental topics needed to master culinary medicine. For the last several years, Deb, along with 40 nutritionists and a dozen chefs from around the world, created culinary competencies for nutrition recommendations. She has developed the Food Coach Academy based on this work, which is delivered in a science-based modular format that provides individuals with expertise needed to use the power of food to transform health.