About Health Well Done

Our mission is to lead teams to simplify the planning and building process for optimal benefit of the people working and using the space, A/E/C professionals, and the planet. This starts with People-Centered Leadership which combines mental wellness with being an authentic leader in the A/E/C industry; it sets the tone for the way we care, connect, and coach each other.

For those of us in the construction industry, as the builders, we should take on a higher level of responsibility for improving how we build. It’s important to show up present, grounded, and in a mental space that is open, curious, and forward thinking in order to successfully lead a people-centric healthcare project to completion. Cathy and Health Well Done is dedicated to helping project managers lead smooth, successful, and sustainable projects.

Meet Your Healthy Project Coach

Cathy Dolan-Schweitzer, aka the Healthy Project Coach, is the president and expert behind Health Well Done and the author of Health Well Done, A People-Centered Management Guide to Building Healthcare Environments. A teacher at heart, she is a leader in Healthcare Project Management.

As a pioneer in the patient-centric economy, Cathy’s over 23 years’ experience of leading teams to simplify the planning and building process for optimal benefit of the patient, the staff and medical professionals, and the planet makes her eminently skilled at coaching and guiding other project managers and A/E/C industry professionals to improve, grow, and successfully bring healthcare projects to completion.

Cathy is an authority in the field of project management and transformative approach to creating people-centric, healthy leaders and projects in the A/E/C industry, can have a significant and positive impact on the health of a project. Cathy knows how to step in and rapidly assess complex situations and deliver unique solutions and guidance — while developing cost-saving innovations. As Senior Project Manager at Stamford Hospital, she provided leadership throughout a 10-year master plan, creating the physical environment for the culture to evolve into a Planetree designated hospital.

In 2011, Cathy became a patient herself when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. With a little faith and hope, her silver lining was the invaluable lessons learned while interacting as a patient within the actual environments her team had built. That experience, teamed with this philosophy of an Integrated approach to healing, inspired her simple three-step approach to building optimal patient centered environments. This process ensures that the hospital’s humanistic approach is inclusive when creating an optimal patient-centered environment that catering to the unique challenges and opportunities that exist in any healthcare setting. The outcome is an environment that serves not only the medical professionals and staff, but most importantly, the patient and their loved ones.

Prior to founding Health Well Done and creating Healthy Project Coaching, Cathy served as the Senior Project Manager at Columbia University Irving Medical Center leading teams to build health and science facilities.

Cathy lives in Yonkers with her husband, Ken, and their dog, Cali, and cat, Lola. With one foot in NY and the other in Vermont, she loves to ski, practice yoga, and travel around the countryside on their Harley.

“Chalk up another superlative for Cathy Dolan Schweitzer! As moderator for Professional Women in Construction’s seventh annual AEC Industry Women: A 20/20 Vision of the Future, Cathy skillfully wove together a panel discussion that encompassed significant issues across key professional disciplines and workplace generations.

For our audience of over 200 industry professionals, Cathy provided clear and compelling facilitation as she and her panel chronicled the joys, benefits, and challenges women encounter in forging new paths in a previously male dominated industry. Her demonstrated knowledge, communication skills, and leadership qualities will undoubtedly ensure Cathy’s success.”

~ Susan Labas, van Zelm Engineering, Connecticut Professional Women in Construction