Coralee Schmitz Bio
A fifth-generation Montanan now embracing the Arizona sunshine, Coralee Schmitz brings over 25 years of leadership experience in the behavioral health field, serving as COO of a large substance use disorder and mental health facility. With a Master’s degree in Psychology and an MBA specializing in healthcare administration, she is passionate about developing and supporting emerging leaders, helping them realize their full potential.
Coralee specializes in guiding families through the complexities of treatment and recovery, ensuring they make the most of their individual opportunities. A patriot at heart, she enjoys delving into presidential biographies and historical non-fiction, always seeking to understand the past to inform the future.
Annette Redding Bio
Annette Redding is the Director of Peer Support at GoMo Health, where she leads the design, implementation, and management of innovative, recovery-focused behavioral health programs. With a strong commitment to evidence-based practices, Annette oversees community-based initiatives that empower individuals through peer-led support and digital health solutions.
She collaborates closely with state and local agencies, healthcare providers, and community organizations to enhance service delivery and ensure regulatory compliance. Annette is also instrumental in securing grant funding, managing data-driven program evaluations, and fostering community engagement to reduce stigma around mental health and substance use disorders. A passionate advocate for compassionate care, Annette provides leadership and training to peer support specialists, cultivating a culture of integrity, accountability, and hope.
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Susan Kleiner: Hello and welcome to The Think Factory podcast. My name is Susan Kleiner. I’m a partner with OGC Solutions, and I’m really excited today to be joined by two remarkable leaders from GoMo Health, Annette Redding and Coralee Schmitz. At GoMo Health, they’re transforming the way behavioral health and recovery are delivered.
From pioneering digital therapeutics to empowering peer support networks, their work is helping individuals and communities heal, grow and thrive. Annette is a behavioral health advocate and former director of Peer Support Services for the largest mental health and treatment facility in Montana. At GoMo Health, Annette brings lived experience and professional expertise to her work in substance use recovery. She has played a pivotal role in the development and implementation of Recovery Pathways, a digital therapeutic program which uses personalized mobile messaging to support individuals in recovery.
Annette’s leadership and storytelling have inspired countless others on their own recovery journeys, and she continues to be a voice for trauma informed, person-centered care. We’re also very fortunate to have with us Coralee Schmitz, a senior leader at Gomo Health.
A behavioral-based science digital health company that is designing and delivering evidence-based engagement programs. Coralee is the former CEO of the largest mental health and treatment facility provider in Montana, and she brings with her a keen understanding of the administrative side with a personal. Understanding of how addiction affects family members. Together, Annette and Coralee are a powerhouse at GOMO Health with a background in healthcare innovation and program development. The two have been working tirelessly to bridge the gap between clinical care and everyday life using behavioral science to drive better outcomes and more human-centered experiences.
With that introduction, I am so happy to have the two of you here with me today. So I’m really curious to hear from both of you about your personal journey into behavioral health
and what led you to GoMo Health. Annette, let’s go ahead and start with you.
Annette Redding: In 2014, I was sentenced to a treatment court program through the
13th Judicial Court in Montana. At that point in my life, I had racked up several felony
charges — I mean my my life consisted of a few months on the streets, a few months in jail, a few months on the streets, a few months in jail, really just not much to hope or live for. And so I began a journey in treatment court and I had been placed in a high intense treatment program that had me in treatment five days a week for you know, you know, starting out like 7 hours a day and then reduced to like 4 hours a day. And I was in that program for more than 730 days I think was the was the total number.
So I got really, really invested in treatment and at the end of that program and at my graduation day, everything that I had lost in addiction had been restored to me. Plus, you know, tenfold more, I mean more things that I had never even thought that
I would have wanted had been restored. And so, you know, in early recovery we get
what I like to call early recovery jobs. And so it’s like washing dishes working at, you
know, in hospitality, different things like that, we just take the job that we can get.
I knew at my graduation that I would go back to work for the treatment center that had helped save my life. And that was my that was my dream and I was dedicated to it.
And so about a year after graduation, it was time to pay the piper. I knew it was time
to give back. I had a heart for for giving and helping. And so I applied and and took an entry level position at that treatment center and sort of climbed — people say they climbed “the corporate ladder” and I climbed the “behavioral health ladder” and really all that really took was just to show up.
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