Renée Van Norman, Ph.D.

Dr. Renée Van Norman is Educator and Founder of WellEducator, LLC. She partners with early childhood programs, K-12 schools, and institutions of higher education to provide professional development and consultation grounded in research-backed methods. She has designed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative virtual wellness community model, WellEducator Neighborhoods, to support educator wellbeing. She is a graduate in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis from The Ohio State University. Her career has taken her to higher education as an Assistant Professor in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Oregon. She has worked as a Director in Early Childhood Education and at the State-level in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education. Throughout her work experience, she has witnessed the immediate need to support the wellbeing of our educational and helping professional workforce. Her passion for educator wellbeing, her personal stories, and her effective and engaging, research-based presentations, inspire educators to define and follow their own wellbeing plan for the betterment of themselves, their students, and the institution in which they serve. When she is not working, she enjoys hiking, camping, birding, and spending time with her partner Keith and their dog Charley.