Olga is a nurse, a veteran of the United States Air Force, and an educator. She specializes in leadership for healthcare workers with a focus on quality improvement and systems that help humans thrive. She works with the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, performs Sentinel Event reviews and and helped write the 2016 edition of the Standards for Birth Centers. As a sister and mother of firefighter/paramedics, she really enjoys teaching and partnering with first responders in training for birth and newborn response. Teaching midwives and medics together feels incredibly important for improvement of teamwork and decreasing safety errors that mothers and babies can experience in pre-hospital care. In her recreational life, Olga loves to read and host game nights with her family.