Art Waber

National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach

Art Waber is a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and Duke Health & Well-Being Coach–Certified, with 15 years of health coaching experience, including at two of the nation’s leading digital healthcare companies: Vida Health, Inc. and Hinge Health, Inc. and for the workplace wellness program at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Through his private health coaching practice, Proactive Integrative Health Coaching LLC, he has worked with individual clients and groups from a variety of organizations including aviation industry professionals, performing artists, clergy, veterans, public safety officers, designers, engineers, human resource managers, maintenance workers and many others.

He is also a trained facilitator for “Learning to Breathe”, one of the nation’s foremost programs introducing mindfulness to adolescents, and co-directs “Thrive! A Workshop for Creating Optimal Wellness” with his wife Alyson, former professor of dance at Meredith College and yoga teacher.

Prior to becoming a health coach, Art served as a professional arts administrator, booking manager, arts management consultant, fundraiser, and grant panelist. He was President of Artsource Management, booking a variety of contemporary dance companies, contemporary theater and music, along with residency, touring and collaborative projects for Africa Exchange, ArtesAmericas, Arts International, the National Dance Project, and many others. He also served on the staff of the American Dance Festival for over eight years, including coordination of the groundbreaking ADF On Tour dance-and-humanities program.

Art believes that both health coaching and the performing arts complement each other, and that the arts play a pivotal role in a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle. His life mission is to connect the human family in a groundbreaking and visionary way, with confidence, care and integrity. “Wellness and the arts are for everyone, everywhere.”