MaryBeth Pappas Baun, MED, CWP has worked for many years as a whole-person wellness coach and consultant, writer, researcher, speaker, and trainer. She is a National Wellness Institute certified wellness practitioner, master wellness coach, worksite wellness consultant, and internationally published author. In 1982, she launched a corporate and community business focused on making wellness and fitness accessible for everyone. Today, her work centers on core-purpose coaching, personal authenticity, mindfulness, MBSM, resilience, post traumatic growth, brain health, and organizational wellness systems development.
Pappas Baun co-founded a worksite and community wellness coaching, consulting and training company in 1986, called American Health & Fitness, and in 2001 merged her business with health, productivity, and team-building consultant William B. Baun. Baun Associates/Wellness-Without-Walls facilitates development in health and wellbeing cultures, facilitates behavior change and skill building processes, unifies teams toward aspirations and goals, and enhances resilience-generating environments. The approach builds on the scientific foundations of Motivational Interviewing, Transtheoretical Model, Appreciative Inquiry, Ecological Model, and the Determinants of Health. This produces engaging programs, high recruitment and participation, and positive outcomes. Over time, Baun’s methods earned a variety of awards.
In the course of her career, Pappas Baun served as Wellness Systems Development Consultant, Master Wellness Coach, and Coach Trainer for North Cypress Internal Medicine and Wellness, Health and Wellness Specialist/Coach for Total Family Care, Health Management Advocate for Gallagher Benefit Services, Wellness Coach for Vivarae, Wellness Coach, Performance Consultant, and ESG Investing Strategist for Poindexter Group – Oppenheimer Investments, Community Outreach Coordinator for Diverse Houston Communities for Safe Indoor Air, Health Education Coordinator and Worksite Wellness Manager for VT Kaiser Permanente Northeast, Health & Fitness Administrator for BFGoodrich Aerospace, Wellness Specialist for the State of Vermont Division of Youth and Family Services, and Senior Research Coordinator at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention Division, Tobacco Research & Treatment Program.
Her clients in the US and internationally for professional development training, wellness coaching, wellness and peer coach training, and worksite health promotion include:
Houston Alief Independent School District, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Smokefree Texas. DNV, Chevron, Aramco, Conoco Philips, BP, Merchants Bank, Pepsi, Spacehab, Healthy Business Council of Dekalb County GA, Philips and Jordan Construction, Merchant’s Bank, Keller Williams Realty, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, and many others across the US, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Pappas Baun also operates a private wellness and life coaching practice, providing one-on-one, group, couples, and family coaching services.
Pappas Baun is a frequent speaker/trainer at national and international conferences. Her work as a behavior change, motivation and mindfulness consultant, health and wellness program leader, training facilitator, author, and health and wellness coach has empowered people to explore, craft, and envision their wellness objectives and aspirations, and achieve real-life, sustainable results. She received the National Wellness Institute Service and Leadership Award in 2008, served for six years on Vermont Governor’s Wellness Council.