Ellen Sprinkle Thomas

Ellen Sprinkle Thomas came to Companion Health the same way many of its clients do: looking for something the conventional healthcare system wasn't offering. As a client, she experienced the model firsthand before she ever joined the team. That experience is the foundation of everything she brings to her role.

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As Chief Operating Officer and Director of Business Development, Ellen sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. Where Nathalie sets the business vision and Carlos drives the clinical model, Ellen makes it work. She oversees the operational infrastructure behind Companion Health's client experience, one we are always working to refine, while also leading the relationships and partnerships that allow the practice to grow without compromising the scientific integrity and relational depth that define it.

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Ellen is a connector. Prospective clients who speak with her quickly understand that she believes in this model completely, because she has lived it. She listens closely and asks the kind of questions that make people feel heard.

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Her career began in financial services, building a foundation in client engagement and marketing before earning her MBA from UNC Greensboro. She went on to spend over a decade as a personal trainer and several years at Charlotte Country Day School as both a library assistant and a kindergarten teacher.

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Years spent coaching adults through fitness goals and teaching five-year-olds to read taught her the same lesson twice: no two people learn the same way, or are motivated by the same things. A one-size-fits-all approach rarely works, especially in healthcare. Ellen brings that instinct for meeting people where they are into everything she does. She is a natural problem solver, and she holds herself to a high bar. Underneath it all is a work ethic forged on a Division I soccer field at Davidson College that has never left her, the instinct of a team player who shows up for whoever needs her that day.

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