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Cameron Turner
Cameron Turner is a Lieutenant Colonel that brings over two decades of leadership and performance experience shaped in some of the most high-pressure environments imaginable. Raised in Missoula, Montana hunting, fishing, and enjoying the outdoors, he learned early that resilience and self-reliance aren't taught in a classroom - they're built through experience.
That foundation was tested and sharpened as an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior pilot flying missions over Mosul, Iraq. Mental clarity, deliberate planning, and the ability to make sound decisions under fire weren't just performance strategies - they were the reasons the team made it home.
That same mindset carried into his time as an instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he taught Combatives and Fitness Leadership to hundreds of cadets, earning the prestigious Coach Mike Krzyzewski "Character Through Sport" Award for his whole-person approach to teaching and developing mental toughness alongside physical performance.
Today, Cameron serves as a Professor of Military Science at Claremont McKenna College, leading the ROTC program across six Southern California universities and mentoring over 150 future officers annually. He is also completing his Ph.D. in Executive Management at Claremont Graduate University, with coursework spanning leadership, organizational resilience, and the psychology of human performance—building on his earlier Master of Education in Kinesiology from the University of Virginia.
As the father of four boys ranging from elementary to middle school, Cameron's commitment to InnerGame Academy is both professional and personal. Developing the next generation of mentally tough, grounded, and capable young people isn't just a career goal - it's what he strives for at home every day.
Lieut. Colonel Cameron Turner
John F. Ginnitty Jr.
John F. Ginnity Jr. is a nationally respected healthcare executive with more than 30 years of senior leadership experience spanning the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, academic institutions, and private-sector healthcare organizations. A Senior Executive Service (SES) leader, Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), and disabled Iraqi War veteran, he is widely recognized for transforming complex, multi-layered healthcare systems to improve access, quality, workforce engagement, and financial performance.
Mr. Ginnity has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operations Officer for large, integrated healthcare systems overseeing statewide and global operations, multi-hospital networks, and budgets exceeding $250 million. As CEO of the VA Montana Health Care System, he led care delivery for nearly 100,000 Veterans across more than a dozen facilities, achieving dramatic reductions in wait times, top-tier patient safety performance, expanded community-based services, and the establishment of advanced business intelligence and demand-capacity management capabilities. His leadership consistently produced measurable improvements in access, patient satisfaction, workforce morale, and fiscal stewardship.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Ginnity held senior operational and policy roles at Headquarters U.S. Air Force and the Pentagon, where he helped design and implement the Patient-Centered Medical Home model across 74 medical facilities worldwide. His work reshaped care delivery, staffing models, and budget forecasting across the Air Force Medical Service; improving access, continuity, and satisfaction while reducing costs by millions of dollars annually. He also commanded large military medical organizations, leading diverse clinical and administrative teams in high-stakes, mission-critical environments, including combat medical operations in Iraq, where his team achieved a 97% patient survival rate during mass casualty operations.
Currently, Mr. Ginnity is the CEO and Owner of a C-Suite Executive Consulting firm, advising healthcare executives, boards, and organizations on resilience, workforce development, system transformation, access to care, population health, performance management, analytics, and leadership development. He is also an accomplished academic leader, serving as Adjunct Professor at Purdue University Global and Texas Tech University, and previously as Program Director and Professor at James Madison University, where he was consistently recognized as a top instructor. Mr. Ginnity is completing a PhD in Leadership Resilience and Emotional Intelligence, further reinforcing his lifelong commitment to advancing healthcare leadership, innovation, and patient-centered excellence.
John Ginnity Jr., SES, FACHE
Emily B. Swett, PhD
Emily holds a PhD in Youth Development Leadership from Clemson University, where her research focused on youthsports boards of directors and engaging athlete board members. She received a BA in Economics and French fromAmherst College where she was also a swimmer and Division III NCAA All-American. After graduating from Amherst, shespent three years working for Credit Suisse in New York City in the Investment Banking Division and in Private Banking.
Now based in Cody, Wyoming, Emily is an experienced swim coach and highly involved in the Cody community. She iscurrently the head coach for the Cody High School girls and boys swimming and diving teams, as well as for Cody's clubswim team, Cody Kountry Aquatic Team. She currently serves on Cody's City Council, and serves as a board member onthe Park County Travel Council, Shoshone Recreation District, Forward Cody, and the Cody Public Art Committee. Sherecently completed two terms as the General Chair of Wyoming Swimming and is currently a member of USA Swimming'sNational LSC Development Committee. Through her business Don't Swett It, Emily enjoys working with boards ofdirectors, particularly of youth organizations, to help improve engagement, efficiency and succession planning.
When not working, she enjoys traveling and spending time in the Wyoming outdoors with her husband and dogs.
Emily B Swett, PhD
KT Thuerbach
KT Thuerbach has been featured in magazines such as Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Entrepreneur, Success, and has been a guest on television’s “Managing with Lou Dobbs,” “The Edge,” “Business Unusual,” “For Entrepreneurs Only” among others.
A Harvard MBA graduate, Mr. Thuerbach has launched and managed numerous ventures including firms in oil and gas, airlines, natural resources, real estate development, and multi-media software.
He later taught at the graduate level in the areas of strategy, entrepreneurship, behavioral finance (how our minds affect our financial decisions), and developed cutting-edge courses on “mind set” and the operating principles of the human mind in order to produce desired results in personal, business, financial, athletic or creative arts.
KT Thuerbach
Chris Dimock
Chris Dimock
Elation Founder, President and CEO
Chris’s passion is in designing and implementing technologies to enrich people’s lives, with a particular emphasis on improving their professional life. This began in college, with a curiosity about developmental psychology which expanded into a love for the design of technologies that improve organizational performance.
He has had a rich career in technology, with leadership roles at Boston College, Fidelity Investments, and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). At DEC Chris graduated from their prestigious Artificial Intelligence Training Program and started applying AI to decision-support systems.
After leaving the corporate world in 1995, Chris embarked as an entrepreneur, starting WTP, one of the first Internet Service Providers in Montana/Wyoming. This evolved to become OneEighty
Communications, which he grew into the region’s largest private competitive local exchange
carrier (CLEC). He sold the company to Eschelon Telecom in 2005.
Chris decided to start Elation to reconnect with his original goal to help people thrive in the workplace. He hired researchers and built a successful coaching practice trademarked as Master Your Mindset®. Seeing the transformative benefits of this approach has only fueled his enthusiasm, and helped attract an extraordinary team of people who share in the mission.
The team at Elation has built a product suite called the Wellbeing Workbench® which can rapidly assess the wellbeing of every employee in an organization, resulting in a personalized roadmap of the work that is most likely to improve their individual wellbeing and performance capacity. The tool also provides a wealth of insights for managers and executives. Elation launched Mindset Labs to continue developing versions of Master Your Mindset for use by K12 schools, young athletes, and veterans.
Chris has had numerous leadership positions in the Young Presidents Organization, through which he helped to launch the A+ Accelerator program. Chris has served on, and chaired, numerous boards for profit and nonprofit organizations and donates time to civic projects and to help entrepreneurs.
He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston College.
Chris Dimock
Michaele Dimock
Michaele Dimock and her husband Chris founded It's Elation Inc. in 2012, a company which delivers workforce wellbeing using detailed data and science to improve employee performance and retention.
Using Elation's mindset concepts, Cam Turner, John Ginnity, KT Thuerbach, and Michaele developed the Inner Game Academy Training Program - available through its online learning platform, Android and iOS apps, and website.
Michaele's background includes a BS in Management Information Systems from Boston University and she currently oversees financial operations for Elation and Mindset Labs.
Since 2009, she has been on the board of Friends of a Legacy (FOAL), a grass-roots non-profit organization, whose mission is to preserve and protect the wild horses of the McCullough Peaks in Cody, Wyoming.
She is also a Satellite Adoption Center for Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, the country’s leader in donkey rescue, sanctuary, adoption, and education.
Michaele Dimock