Kaelyn Elfert

Background

About Kaelyn Elfert

I am an experienced healthcare leader with over 10 years’ experience in BC Health Authorities working in Community, Primary and Long Term Care. I am a Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner with a Master of Health Administration (MHA) and additional Certifications in Conflict Coaching, Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence, and Evidence-informed Public Health Decision Making. I have been described as highly motivated and results oriented. I am personally and professionally dedicated to engaging with partners in a good way, with the shared goal of advancing health equity for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people across the Interior. I am a strong advocate for authentic engagement through deep listening, coalition building and ongoing relationship development. I am driven to lead change effectively with proven methodologies in alignment with organizational values. I am committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of supporting culturally sensitive, person-centered healthcare and I conduct my work through a lens of social innovation, decolonization, and cultural humility. Core Competencies & Attributes:* Transformational Leadership * Indigenous Cultural Safety and Trauma Informed Practice * Strategic Human Resources Management and Collaborative Conflict Resolution * Coaching with Compassion and Brain-Based Coaching techniques * Quality Improvement & Lean Systems Transformation * Skilled facilitator, including Team Mapping and Liberating Structures * Lean & Agile Methodologies for Change and Project Management * Appreciative Inquiry, Readiness Mindset, and ADKAR® * Brief Action Planning (B.A.P.) & Motivational Interviewing I recognize and situate myself as a second generation immigrant, grateful to be living, working, learning and healing on the beautiful ancestral and unceded homelands of the sn̓ʕay̓čkstx (Sinixt) people, as an uninvited guest in the community of Ky̓ʕamlúp (Nelson), where I also acknowledge the tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land) of the syilx / Okanagan and ɁamakɁis Ktunaxa. I acknowledge these territories in the spirit of reconciliation, to reflect on the history of colonization that is present in my work, and to recognize with humility the significance of place-based identity for Indigenous peoples.