About Anna

Dr. Anna Adachi-Mejia is a creative professional coach, innovative facilitator, and detail-oriented consultant for individuals and groups who think differently and are ready to bring their unique perspectives into the world.

Photo by Kata Sasvari.

 

Anna Adachi-Mejia, PhD, CPCC

  • Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)

  • PhD in Evaluative Clinical Sciences from Dartmouth

  • Bi-racial person raised in a tri-cultural household

 
 

Anna will help you to foster inclusiveness, build community, and boost workplace productivity.

Leadership: Leadership Development, Consulting, Coaching

Meeting Facilitation: Board and Staff Retreats, Focus Groups, Advisory Groups

Scientific Writing and Editing: Manuscripts, Grants, Presentations

Mixed Methods Research: Interviews, Survey Design, Photovoice

Community Engagement: Listening, Uplifting, Welcoming Diverse Voices

Improving Workplace Vibes: Productivity, Innovation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

 

Anna applies tools from multiple disciplines to help successful, hard-working leaders inspire creativity, innovation, and connection.

 

Anna’s professional experiences

Anna is the Principal of Adachi Labs, LLC (founded 2019).

She weaves her prior experiences as both a former Executive Director and Faculty member to help bridge connections across scientists and community members.

As an Associate Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, she taught, researched, and led grant-funded projects. Her research office was located at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (now called the Dartmouth Cancer Center at Dartmouth Health). Among her innovations while at Dartmouth, she facilitated virtual and in-person Think Tanks on a range of public health topics.

Anna is a former course director at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, where she guided and mentored graduate students on developing scientific grant proposals. She also has over two decades of experience managing and training survey research teams.

For her doctoral training, Anna completed her studies at The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth (now called The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) and she completed her coaching certification with the Co-Active Training Institute.

Other formal training includes:

  • New Hampshire Equity Leaders Fellowship

  • Empower Success Corps Catalyst Program

  • Common Good Vermont Nonprofit Training and Consulting Certificate

  • Positive Intelligence Quotient (PQ) Coach Training

  • Improv Training with The Second City

She is also a Trustee of several nonprofit boards in New England.