Working Well Staff & Board of Directors
Staff
Mary Barley, Executive Director
About Mary Barley
Mary Barley has been in the fitness industry for over 30 years as a gym owner, personal trainer, group fitness instructor, wellness coach, writer, speaker and well-being coordinator. She has served as the “Health and Well-Being Coordinator for Leon County, overseeing the health and well-being of 1700 employees, for the last 5 1/2 years. She also is the part time Executive Director for Working Well, a non-profit whose mission is to help get our community’s workforce healthier.
Christine Cox, Communications and Finance Manager
About Christine Cox
After a fulfilling 20-year career in the nonprofit sector, Christine Cox took a big leap to pursue her greatest passion – helping people achieve the happiest, healthiest version of themselves with sustainable healthy lifestyle changes. She started her own wellness coaching business and earned certifications as an integrative nutrition health coach, yoga instructor, group fitness instructor, and personal trainer. Christine was hired by the Florida Department of Children and Families as Statewide Director of the Office of Employee Well-being to build this brand-new initiative from the ground up. She also served as wellness coordinator for the City of Tallahassee. Now Christine focuses on her work as a health and wellness coach, working with clients one-on-one and in small groups, conducting wellness workshops, and writing her self-help memoir on charting your own path to wellness. She also enjoys teaching yoga throughout the community. Christine earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations and master’s degree in mass communications, both from the University of Florida. Go Gators!
Board of Directors
Dr. Cynthia Harris, President
About Cynthia
Dr. Harris is the Associate Dean for Public Heath and Director and Professor of the Florida A&M University Institute of Public Health. She has over 30 years of expertise, leadership, and training to successfully implement community-based participatory research with a focus on environmental health and toxicology. Dr. Harris is also the recipient of several public health service and academic awards including two distinguished alumnus awards from Meharry Medical College and the Black Innovators Award from the Black Alumni Association of the University of Kansas. She is originally from Kansas City, Kansas and is married to her wonderful life partner, Leo M. Harris, Jr.
Mark S. Hicks, Sr., Vice President
About Mark S. Hicks, Sr.
Mark S. Hicks, Sr. is responsible for managing, planning, coordinating and directing the sales and account management functions for Capital Health Plan. He holds a Florida Life, Health & Annuities license and has over 20 years of health care industry experience, combined with 10 years of association management experience. Mark previously served as Senior Manager of Sales for FBMC Benefits Management, Senior Account Manager for Aetna, and Director of Marketing Operations for Coventry Health Care of Florida. He is a member of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce’s Communications & Member Engagement Committee, the Board of Directors for the Florida Association of Health Underwriters, and the local chapter of the Capital Area Association of Health Underwriters.
Leigh Miles, Secretary/Treasurer
About Leigh Miles
Leigh Miles currently serves as Healthiest Weight Coordinator at the Florida Department of Health in Leon County. She is a Florida native and a Florida State University graduate. Go Noles! Leigh has worked for the Florida Department of Health for several years, in the areas of tobacco prevention, sexual risk avoidance, and community health. She has her hands in a variety of public health programs and projects across Tallahassee. Leigh enjoys her downtime with family and friends, her cat and dog, and creative hobbies like painting, calligraphy, sewing, and leatherworking.
Christine Morse, Immediate Past President
About Christine Morse
Christine Morse is the Fitness Coordinator at Premier Health and Fitness Center, an affiliate of Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. She is a Certified Personal Trainer with the American College of Sports Medicine, and has bachelor’s degrees in Exercise Science and Psychology from Florida State University and a master’s degree in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Corporate Wellness from Utah State University. Christine represents Premier at community events, and is the Exercise Consultant for the Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Metabolic Health Center where she helps patients begin exercise regimens to lose weight successfully. She has been teaching classes and holding one-on-one meetings with patients there for over 5 years. When not working, Christine enjoys exercising, reading, traveling, spending time with family, and is an avid runner who has completed six full marathons.
Brandy Carlson
Laurie Cox
About Laurie Cox
Laurie Cox is a physical education teacher at Roberts Elementary and is also the Leon County Physical Education coordinator. She is a product of Tallahassee and Leon County Schools, TCC and then graduated from Auburn University. Laurie is married and has spent 34 years teaching elementary students about the benefits of exercise, healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and wellness. She loves her job and also loves being involved with youth at her church. Laurie also serves at the state level with health and physical education as part of district administrators around the state for physical education and health and has served on the board for the state organization SHAPE Florida (Society of Health and Physical Educators)
Michael Davino
About Michael Davino
Michael began as the CEO and Founder of U-Vest Financial and U-Vest Tax, both growing financial firms in the Southeast. He graduated a proud Seminole from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in Finance, where he met his wife, Kyle Davino. Michael and Kyle also operate their family-owned plant nursery, Just Fruits & Exotics, in Crawfordville, FL.
Michael and Kyle have a son, Micah Shea, and daughter, Norah Anne. They also focus a lot of time on animal rescue efforts. Michael served as president of the Animal Shelter Foundation from 2012-2018 and still volunteers a lot of time to this cause. They are also very passionate about helping children with Down Syndrome, as their son Micah Shea is blessed to be one of these children.
Summer Dusek
About Summer Dusek
Summer is the Director for the Center for Professional Enrichment at Tallahassee Community College. Upon arrival at TCC she began working to revitalize wellness programming for employees. With a few employee gym updates, Fitbits, wellness workshops, and personal trainer with group fitness classes there has been a renewed interest in campus wellness activities over the past two years. Summer holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Clinical/Counseling Psychology and is ABD in Public Administration through Valdosta State University. She lives in Thomasville, GA with her two children, husband, and their three dogs. They enjoy youth sports, kayaking, fishing, golfing, and being outdoors together as much as possible.
Frank Flynn
Heather Fuselier
About Heather Fuselier
Heather Fuselier is a National-Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, also holding credentials as a WellCoaches Certified Wellness Coach, Tobacco Treatment Specialist, author, trainer, and employee well-being consultant specializing in helping people live healthy, balanced lives. As a health and fitness enthusiast, she came to professional coaching after years of finding myself in the role of cheerleader for folks seeking greater health through life balance. Now, Heather works professionally with clients to achieve a range of goals including weight reduction and management, stress management, life balance, and tapping into the incredible power of visioning, proper goal-setting, and achieving progress, not perfection.
Bart Gunter
About Bart Gunter
Bart Gunter is a Principal in HUB/Rogers Gunter Vaughn Insurance of Tallahassee, Florida. As a licensed Life Health and Property/Casualty agent, his clients include municipalities, school districts, non-profits and general commercial business. He is a CIC designate and is certified specialist for the Affordable Care Act. Bart has lectured and provided continuing education courses for numerous statewide Associations. He serves on many community boards and foundations and is a past chairman of the Working Well Board of Directors.
Dr. Zemoria Johnson
About Zemoria Johnson
Dr. Zemoria A. Johnson is a Tallahassee native, daughter, friend, volunteer, mentor, pharmacist and philanthropist. A 2018 graduate of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University’s College of Pharmacy, her true calling in life has always been to be a servant leader. When she is not on the clock serving her community at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare; off of the clock, Zemoria invests her time volunteering and traveling. She enjoys opportunities of mentoring students attending local middle and high schools; as well as future practicing pharmacists. In between mentoring sessions, Zemoria serves as the CEO for her family’s non-profit, the DeBoles-Johnson Foundation, Incorporated (DJF). A two-time recipient of the Presidential Volunteer Service Award from the Administrations of Presidents Bush and Obama in 2008 and 2011, respectively; Dr. Johnson strives to live by the quote, Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on earth.
Alexis Johnson
About Alexis Johnson
Alexis D. Johnson is Chief Operating Officer at Care Point Health & Wellness Center. She’s worked in health care for almost 10 years with experience in primary care, mental health, endocrinology, and neurology. She’s passionate about health care and helping others with a positive attitude and focus on education, service, and scholarship.
Pat Maurer
About Pat Maurer
Pat Maurer promotes active and sustainable transportation through RideOn, a program funded by FDOT, to offer commuter assistance in a 9-county region. Working with governments, employers, and individuals, she has become a continuing student of marketing, decision-making, and behavior change, and is a certified instructor of Parent Effectiveness Training. Pat is the mother of 3 grown children, and grandmother of 10. She enjoys acting, spending time in nature, and serving in her church as director of the children’s choir.
Chuck Moore
About Chuck Moore
Chuck Moore started his tenure as Tallahassee Community College’s Director of Athletics in December 2021. He was previously the Director of Athletics and Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Richard Bland (Va.) College, where he resurrected the NJCAA Division II program that included men’s basketball, men’s soccer, softball, women’s volleyball, and men’s and women’s golf. As the men’s basketball head coach, he re-built the program following a 20-year hiatus from the sport. Moore led Richard Bland to the 2015 NJCAA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship among two Final Four appearances (2015, 2017). During this tenure, he received NABC National Coach of the Year honors along with being named District Coach of the Year 3 times. He has also had coaching stints at Randolph Macon College and Patrick Henry Community College.
A native of Hampton, Va., Moore is a graduate of Christopher Newport University and earned a Masters in Sports Management from American Public University. He’s also the proud father of his son Trey and loves spending time with his rescue pup Charis.
Brian Ramos
About Brian Ramos
Brian Ramos has lived in Tallahassee since 1990 when he came to attend Florida State University. As a student, he helped to start the FSView Newspaper on campus. You can call him a serial entrepreneur. His firm, ThinkBig Business Solutions, helps to do turnarounds and scale companies. He’s been doing just that for over 30 years, having worked with over 300 companies in his career. He also gives back by teaching an entrepreneurship class through Junior Achievement to area high schools and has mentored aspiring business owners through Career Source’s StartUp Quest. When he’s not working on growing businesses, he and his wife Lisa enjoy tending to their extensive garden and attending FSU sporting events. They have 5 children ranging from 28 to 14 years old (three of whom have graduated from FSU). Brian was on the Working Well Board when it was initially founded and returned in 2023 to help grow the organization’s outreach efforts.
Brian Smatt
About Brian Smatt
Brian is a Human Resources Administrator for the City of Tallahassee in Human Resources & Workforce Development overseeing Recruitment & Engagement. Brian joined the City in 2006 with Parks and Recreation, and since 2019, he has led an Employee Engagement team responsible for the City’s recruitment, training and organizational development, health/wellness, rewards and recognition, internship, and other various HR programs. Recently, the health and wellness program was recognized as an Elite winner of the Nation’s Best and Brightest in Wellness for the second consecutive year. Originally from South Florida, Brian earned his MPA and BS from Florida International University and enjoys supporting his Miami Hurricanes and Miami Dolphins.
Dr. Patrick Smith
About Patrick Smith
Dr. Patrick Smith is committed to helping families in our community experience improved health and vitality. His passion is to help people learn to move well, think well and eat well! Dr. Smith graduated from Florida High as Valedictorian in 1993. He received his undergraduate from Florida State University in Biological Sciences. Dr. Smith graduated Cum Laude from Logan Chiropractic of Chiropractic in 1999. Dr. Smith is a constant learner and is always researching the safest, best and most innovative ways to help his patients. Dr. Smith has been providing Wellness Talks for the past 17 years. He speaks regularly for the State and County Offices, Private Businesses, Local Churches and Schools as well as the Police Department. Dr. Smith serves locally on the Board of Directors for Working Well and is also a member of an international non-profit organization of wellness experts called the Wellness Champions. His mission is to empower as many people as possible to experience their optimal health potential through genuine care and education. Dr. Smith lives in Tallahassee with his wife, Kelli and their two sons, Jake and Dylan. Dr. Smith loves God, his family, golf and all things health related.
Mary Waller
About Mary Waller
Mary has 30 years of healthcare experience where her work has focused primarily on improving health and preventing chronic disease. She managed a hospital-based Wellness Center, provided community health events and screenings, developed employee wellness programs for hospital staff and worked with local businesses to improve their teams’ well-being. Mary is an exercise physiologist and received her master’s degree from Florida State University. Currently, Mary serves as a NeuroChangeSolutions Consultant, certified to teach the courses of Dr. Joe Dispenza. These workshops use the principles of Neuroscience and HeartMath to help organizations, and the individuals within them, reach their full potential. Mary lives in Crawfordville with her spouse, Vickie Spray, cat, Monkey and dog, Waldo. They enjoy their acreage of fruit-trees and edible landscape, boating and kayaking on the Wakulla River, and riding the bike trail.