Management Team
Margot Langstaff, R.N., B.S.N., M.B.A.
Co-Owner
Harvard educated, a successful entrepreneur, and an Army veteran, Margot is a clinician, a builder and a leader. Her career has been spent designing and starting successful companies that help people meet tough challenges.
Background
To help businesses succeed, Margot wrote a book on small business financing. To help women with incontinence issues, she founded Women’s Health Corporation.
Her career also includes positions in sales and marketing in pharma and medical devices and she has designed medically based fitness programs
Defining Experience
After serving in the Army, Margot then worked in Haiti where she superviseded the launch of Haiti’s first modern operating room and outpatient clinic. She lived in a school for handicapped children across the street from the presidential palace. “During the day we treated the people of Port-au-Prince and at night we patched up machete wounds for the palace guard.”
What she learned from this experience
“You have to adapt to what’s there and take advantage of it. We learned to provide up-to-date healthcare in the most challenging conditions.”
Qualities:
- An innate ability to read people
- Great sense of humor – which carries over into an ability to make virtually any task, even healthcare delivery, fun
- An ability to see opportunity in any problem
Email: Margot
Elisa Hamill, R.N., B.S., M.S., M.S.N.
Co-Owner
The architect of LifeHealth procedures and standards, Elisa is a problem-solver and a superb operations person. She has the unique ability to synthesize a complex issue and scale it down to smaller, manageable parts. Her systems have led to LifeHealth being the most professional wellness company today – and are a key reason why LifeHealth, a small company, has the capability to work effectively with much larger organizations.
Defining Experience
Earlier in her career, Elisa ran the operations of a major insurance company. “I never had a job where I replaced someone. I always created a new position. That meant figuring out, not just what needed to be done, but how to do it.”
Background
In her insurance work, Elisa was instrumental in getting and – what’s harder – keeping major government contracts for Medicare, Medicaid and the Indian Health Service for Blue Cross. She was also a technical advisor for the military providing healthcare coverage for the military and their families in the US.
Qualities - Caring
- Creative
- Enjoys challenges and finds innovative solutions to problems
- Lives by the LifeHealth Standards of Care
Email: Elisa
Mary Brook
Controller
Ms. Brook is the controller for BridgeHealth International, Inc. where she manages the accounting, reporting, human resources and financial controls for the organization.
Ms. Brook has experience in a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining BridgeHealth, she worked as a financial accounting consultant to businesses in the healthcare, financial services and sports and entertainment industries. From 1989 to 1997 she was the controller and director of Investor Relations for the Hallwood Companies, a group of 30 publicly traded oil and gas companies located in Denver and Dallas. From 1981 to 1989 she worked as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche, LLP, most recently as senior manager; there, she served clients in the healthcare, financial services, oil and gas, retail, government, not-for-profit, manufacturing, automotive and construction industries including General Motors, Janus Funds, Oppenheimer Funds, Catholic Charities, the Colorado Department of Education and the American Lung Association.
Ms. Brook is a Certified Public Accountant and obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Judith Paley, M.D.
LifeHealth Medical Director
“I thought a seminar on heart health was going to be boring. Was I ever wrong! Dr. Paley actually made it fun to learn about my body and how to be healthier. Thank you!”
A graduate of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Dr. Paley has been in private practice in internal medicine for over 20 years and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Dr. Paley also conducts LifeHealth’s extraordinarily popular and very lively Lunch and Learn presentations. She is also a highly regarded health writer and columnist. Her website and weekly email health newsletter, femailhealthnews.com, currently have 5,100 current subscribers worldwide and 3000 website visitors per month. She also writes minniepauz.com – an advice column for menopausal women, and is a former guest columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.
Email: Judy