Joy VerPlanck, DET, Jessica Oehlke, M.D., and Lois James, Ph.D.

Dr. Joy VerPlanck is a learning and development consultant serving organizations of all sizes in the public and private sectors. She is a former military police officer and current chair of the cognitive advisory board at MILO training solutions. Joy holds a doctorate in educational technology, a master of science in organizational leadership and training, and a certificate in the foundations of neuroleadership.

Dr. Jessica Oehlke is a sleep medicine physician and the owner of Lakeside Sleep Care in Vermont. She is double-board certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and previously served as a sleep physician with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Oehlke completed her medical training at Albany Medical College, her psychiatry residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center and her Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lois James is the director of the Sleep Performance Research Center at the Washington State University (WSU) College of Nursing. She focuses on bias, stress, sleep and performance in “high-stress” populations such as police officers, military personnel, nurses and top-tier athletes. Dr. James is the founding director of Counter Bias Training Simulation (CBTsim), a training product available exclusively through MILO, where she also serves on the cognitive advisory board.