
Mercedes Shanelle James, MPH, NBC-HWC
Public Health Leader & Consultant | Health & Wellness Coach | Founder & CEO
Mercedes Shanelle Health & Wellness Consulting, LLC is a public health consultancy helping professionals, BIPOC allies, businesses, and brands center health and wellness in their everyday lives and spaces through creative customized 1:1 coaching sessions, event consultations, workshops, training, social impact solutions, and research.
With over 14 years experience as a public health leader, a Masters of Public Health, and a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Mercedes Shanelle is established as a professional authority in the field.
Grounded in Radical Wellness, her work is an intersectional approach to optimal health that challenges eurocentric health models, and leverages wellness as an act of resistance and liberation. It interrogates systemic inequities and designs cultural solutions for health in all Black spaces.
Mercedes Shanelle designs health solutions to empower clients to take small sustainable steps toward favorable and transformative behavior change while expressing the most authentic versions of themselves.
The Consultancy
Was designed to:
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Provide creative wellness solutions and tools
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Share lifestyle experiences, ideas + interests
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Create a safe space to be the best versions of our true authentic selves
Is for folx who:
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Need an accountability coach
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Prioritize and invest in their wellness
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Curate, design, and center radically well spaces