Facilitator Spotlight: Dr. Rachel Mitchum Elahee

Dr. Rachel Mitchum Elahee (pronounced E-lah-hee) brings behavioral health leadership to life with clarity, credibility, and contagious energy. A licensed psychologist, certified executive coach, and author of Choose You! Reignite Your Passion for Life, Dr. Rachel helps leaders navigate complexity without losing their people in the process. Her background in behavioral health, combined with her work in broader community-serving environments, allows her to understand both the clinical realities teams face and the leadership pressures guiding them.

As a practicing psychologist, Dr. Rachel’s work has included supporting justice-involved juveniles and veterans navigating complex trauma, identity disruption, and high-stakes life transitions. Working closely with these populations has sharpened her understanding of how systems either stabilize or strain the people inside them. She brings that perspective into every leadership room. Her clinical experience informs how she speaks about boundaries, psychological safety, and change, not as abstract leadership concepts, but as conditions that directly shape human behavior, resilience, and long-term outcomes.

Signature Strength:

Dr. Rachel’s signature strength is helping leaders navigate change in ways that protect people while advancing progress. She challenges audiences to examine the habits, decisions, and leadership signals that shape whether teams feel steady or strained during transition.

Best-Fit Situations

Dr. Rachel is particularly impactful with:

• Behavioral health and healthcare leadership teams

• Community-serving organizations navigating transition or growth

• Teams experiencing change fatigue or morale strain

• Conferences seeking a balance of energy, insight, and implementation

• Leaders who want to strengthen psychological safety while maintaining accountability

She is a strong fit for environments where leaders care deeply about outcomes and want to align performance with sustainability.

Experience & Focus

Dr. Rachel has received numerous awards for her work as a psychologist and has earned consistent accolades as a speaker. She has been featured on Good Day Atlanta, CBS Radio, NPR Boston, and in publications including U.S. News & World Report and MadameNoire.com.

Whether addressing change management, strategies for strong mental health or strengthening trauma-informed leadership practices, she centers one guiding principle: sustainable outcomes require sustainable leadership.

If you would like to explore how Dr. Rachel Elahee can support your leaders or audience, schedule a 15-minute Quick Win Consult to discuss your goals and determine the right fit.