Hendersonville, NC December 19, 2025: Teleios Collaborative Network (TCN) announced its 2025 Teleios University (TU) graduates. Eighteen individuals successfully completed the year-long program, earning their certificates in leadership excellence.
TU’s Leadership Excellence program is unlike any other. This one-year course is provided through monthly webinars, experiential monthly activities, quarterly challenges and more. It culminates with a capstone project and earns each participant who completes the assignments a certification in leadership excellence.
This year’s graduates include the following leaders in the Hospice and Serious Illness Sector:
- Kimberly Setzer, Director of Grief Services, Amorem
- Ashley Presnell, Director of Patient Access, ANCORA Compassionate Care
- Christin Hunnicutt, Grief Services Team Leader, ANCORA Compassionate Care
- Melody King, Director of Compliance, Four Seasons
- Diana Painter, Director of Quality & HIM, Four Seasons
- Sybil Arnold, Director of Patient and Family Services, Four Seasons
- Corina Bahr, Patient Services Director, Hospice of Eastern Idaho
- Sierra McNeil, Office Manager, Hospice of Eastern Idaho
- Deneice Knowles, Vice President of Clinical Services, Hospice Savannah
- Barry Dowell, CFO, Mountain Valley
- Jan Stanley, Senior Vice President of IT, Mountain Valley
- Angie Cagle, Chief Human Resources Officer, Mountain Valley
- Alan Seivers, President, Seivers Consulting
- Eric Tetzlaff, Administrator/CEO, Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice
- Ashley Espy, Clinical Operations Coach, Teleios
- Chantelle Buchanan, Director of Knowledge Management, Teleios
- Hope Hinson, Informatics Analyst, Tillery Compassionate Care
- Megan Mabry, Admission Nurse, Tillery Compassionate Care
TU professors include Chris Comeaux, President & CEO of TCN, Dr. Millicent Burke-Sinclair, President & CEO of Four Seasons, and Carole Fisher, President of National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI). Each professor brings a wealth of leadership experience and knowledge.
Chris Comeaux states, “TU just graduated the participants in our sixth Leadership Excellence class and has a full class registered for our seventh year beginning January of 2026. The growth and learning we have seen from our participants are extraordinary.” Here is some of the feedback we have received regarding the impact of this year-long Leadership Excellence Course: ‘Teleios University has provided experience of self-discovery, challenge, and growth in ways I didn’t anticipate when I began. It's been a transformative journey, not only professionally but personally too.’ “This powerful testimony is exactly why we designed TU, and it is wonderful to see our great vision coming to fruition with each new class of leaders. Congratulations to our 2025 Teleios University Leadership Excellence graduates,” states Millicent Burke-Sinclair and Chris Comeaux.
TCN is a nonprofit organization that has created a clinically integrated network, sharing expert leadership, industry best practices, and resources with its member organizations. This allows community-based, nonprofit hospice and palliative care agencies to continue providing compassionate care for those facing serious illness or the end of life. There are over 3,500 hospice and 4,300 palliative patients in its network. TCN was founded in 2017 by Four Seasons and Carolina Caring and co-founded by AMOREM and Mountain Valley organizations. TCN is currently comprised of twenty-two member organizations and serves in North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, Virginia, Kentucky, Wyoming, Idaho, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, and Utah.
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Contact: Tina Gentry
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