Siobhan openly shares her personal story to help end the stigma associated with mental health and substance use disorders. Her history includes 20+ years of active addiction, ending in homelessness, incarceration and a severe heroin and crack addiction. Siobhan began her recovery journey in 2006. It is also a driving force in her commitment to her work.

At 5 years clean, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and underwent surgical intervention. She celebrates 8+ years of remission today. During her entire recovery journey, Siobhan has worked to address the trauma issues of her childhood, the underlying causes of her mental health issues. Learning to love herself and her life, including the past precisely as it is, has been one of the greatest gifts of the work she has done.

In her spare time, Siobhan trains for CrossFit. She has consistently ranked top 5% in the 50-54 age group. She has 2 worldwide CrossFit Open finishes in the top 100 women in her age group. At 53, she placed 271st in the world open competition in 2018 for her age group, which places her in the top 5% of competitors in the 50-54 women. In 2018, Nashville FIT, a local fitness magazine, wrote an article about her CrossFit and personal accomplishments. Siobhan lives in Columbia, Tennessee where she trains at CrossFit Old South with Jason Daniel. She divides her time between there and Miami, Florida, where she trains as CrossFit Armed with her coach and former CrossFit Games athlete, Kaleena Ladeairous.

Siobhan is currently Divisional Director of Clinical Services, for the Behavioral Health Division of Universal Health Services, Inc. She focuses on clinical program assessment and development, special projects and research across the company’s broad portfolio of freestanding behavioral health facilities specializing in various services across the continuum of care, including substance use disorder treatment, eating disorder treatment, inpatient acute psychiatric care for conditions including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, personal identity disorder and more; and outpatient behavioral health treatment.

Siobhan was previously Director, Research & Fidelity at Foundations Recovery Network, acquired by UHS in 2016, where she developed an industry-leading research group focusing on the mental health and substance use recovery outcomes. She regularly presents original research worldwide, has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and conducts education within the addiction services network. For example, during the opioid crisis, Siobhan presented “Characteristics and outcomes of adult opiate users in abstinence-based residential treatment” at the International Conference on Dual Diagnosis in Barcelona. Siobhan is also voluntary Adjunct Assistant Professor for the College of Family Medicine at Baylor University, participating in a research group exploring integrated solutions to addiction and mental health disorders. Further, she welcomes the opportunity to be interviewed by the media on mental health and substance use topics, seeing this as opportunity to generate awareness, educate and share hope.

In September of 2020 Siobhan received a Presidential Proclamation acknowledging her service to the treatment and recovery industry.

Since entering recovery, Siobhan has dedicated her career and her time to breaking the stigma of addiction and mental health disorders, helping other overcome the disease, and hoping to represent what is possible in recovery.

Tom Karl – Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Tom Karl founded R1 as the result of his own personal experiences in addiction and recovery. The idea for the R1 Learning System and the Discovery Cards came to Tom following a relapse when he noted a lack of practical tools in addiction treatment settings. He has used the creation of the tools to help him better understand himself and address his own personal challenges. Through R1, Tom’s goal is to put impactful self-discovery tools into the hands of individuals in recovery and empower them to change their lives. Tom has 25+ years of experience in learning and development and employee engagement, working with global companies, government agencies, and education institutions. Tom is active in the recovery community and volunteers with patient engagement programs.

Tom is a graduate of Duke University with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. Tom currently volunteers on the Patient & Family Engagement Advisory Council at Inova Healthcare System in Virginia. He is active in the recovery community, is a founding member of RecoveryDC, and volunteers with patient engagement programs.

Prior to R1, Tom was the Senior Vice President at Lee Hecht Harrison and a Partner with MasteryWorks. At Lee Hecht Harrison, Tom was the Global Practice Lead for Employee Engagement and Career Development Solutions where he led the go-to-market strategy and product development for all practice solutions. In his role, Tom consulted with clients to design, develop, and implement products and solutions to address their pressing human capital needs. As a partner at MasteryWorks, Tom led the product strategy to create the first multi-language career portal solution in the industry (including assessment tools, e-learning, career discussion planners, articles, and links to existing organization HR technologies and career resources). MasteryWorks' career portals were licensed and deployed globally. Tom, with his partner and team, built an international reputation for career planning and was acquired by Lee Hecht Harrison in 2014 after a two-decade strategic partnership.

Naetha & Calliese are a mother and daughter; they are part of 4 generations that live under one roof; it is an imperfectly perfect family in recovery! Their combination of credible lived experience and professional skill, provide a unique and valuable perspective to their passion to educate and share Recovery Coaching in the UK. They have created Recovery Coach Academy in the UK to share Recovery Coaching and also to connect and collaborate with others. While providing opportunities to engage, enhance and elevate Recovery Coaching, they also support others to implement recovery coaching and create Recovery Coach Communities.

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