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Police Manage Job Stress
Calmpak on CBS
Cindy Hsu of CBS NY interviews Dr. Melissa Root and Chief Brian Wright about how Calmpak helps with law enforcement stress.
Stress and Pain
Dr. Silvia Lobo Lobo interviews Dr. Melissa Root about using Calmpak to effectively manage stress and pain from dental procedures.
Business Stress
Dana Dowdell of Boss Consulting interviews Dr. Melissa Root about employee stress and how Calmpak can impact the bottom line.
Eliminate Self-Doubt
Dr. Melissa Root describes how video self-modeling can increase your performance and minimize your self-doubt.
Violin Virtuoso
New England Conservatory spotlights Laura Stetler, calmpak’s Success Strategist and in-house violin virtuoso. Laura also owns The Wordshop.
The Start of Calmpak
Lee Howard of The Day newspaper chronicles the early days of calmpak’s development back in 2020.
our story
Melissa Root, Ph.D.
Dr. Melissa Root is the Founder and CEO of Root Success Solutions LLC, an innovative company that develops ways to maximize your brain. She created calmpak for enhanced well being and is seeing lives changed through its use.
Melissa invented calmpak after conducting research at UConn Health and seeing participants fall asleep in uncomfortable chairs in front of strangers when they listened to the type of psychological techniques found on calmpak. As a volunteer, she played those same recordings for patients at Yale New Haven Health and requests came pouring in for a way to listen at home. Calmpak was born as the solution.
Education remains at the core of Melissa’s life with an undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Connecticut. She maintains a school psychology certification in Connecticut and is a parent to three - a nuclear engineer submarine officer in the US Navy, an engineer officer in the US Coast Guard, and a third-year biomedical engineering student at Yale University. Her community engagement spans her interests of healthcare and the shoreline waters. Melissa recently became President of OpSail Connecticut, Inc., a volunteer entity dedicated to sharing Connecticut’s Maritime Heritage.
Laura Stetler, MA
Passionate about each person’s unique gifts and how they learn, Laura focuses on building context-relevant strategy and integrating what we know about learning into fun action steps for important projects.
Laura is known for an adaptive, pragmatic approach with over 15 years as a military spouse and professional development in over 6 different locations, equipping her to understand and manage transitions. She completed her graduate studies at Goucher College in Administration and preceded that with formative undergraduate years at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music studying music, brain development, and learning. Laura maintains her Associate Certified Coach credential with the International Coaching Federation as well as certifications for CliftonStrengths as a coach and GrowthWheel as a business advisor.
Laura Stetler is a Success Strategist with Root Success Solutions (RSS). She builds relationships and designs ways to get RSS’s Calmpak tool into as many hands as possible for enhanced rest and performance. Laura is an advocate for good rest given its impacts on our capacities, performance, and overall well being.
A conservatory-trained classical violinist and former trainer for the US Navy overseas, Laura is founder of The Wordshop, a company specializing in coaching through co-writing. She brings diverse experience to her work supporting human performance. Her familiarity with high-stress situations is informed by time with arts organizations, higher education institutions, and economic development as well as varying levels of government.