Blink of an Eye™ Nonprofit Founder

Louise Phipps Senft is an attorney and nationally recognized Transformative Mediator for Complicated Business, Family, Divorce and Organizational Issues. She is well known for her facilitation of interesting expert panels and difficult multifaceted dialogues. She is the author of the best-selling book, Being Relational: the Seven Ways to Quality Interaction & Lasting Change (2015), and the Creator of Blink of an Eye™ Podcast focused on storytelling with trauma healing insights for listeners across the globe, and covering cutting edge and sometimes controversial topics on various ways to approach Trauma Healing.

Ms. Senft’s life was changed when one of her five children was tragically injured in a 2015 freak diving accident in the ocean surf rendering him a quadriplegic. She spent months living by his side in ICU’s and hospitals battling for his life, paralyzed from the neck down, and quality of his care. She and her family responded with love and fierce advocacy. Her son Archer’s choice to live and be hopeful has been a beacon to many.

She learned that most hospitals in the US do not have Spinal Cord Injury expertise, most families do not have mediation skills which are essential for navigating complicated health care, and most doctors are not trauma informed. She founded the 501(c)(3) non-profit, the Integrative Center for Trauma Healing, Advocacy, and Transformation, IC THAT, d/b/a Blink of an Eye™, in 2021 to fill the gap for more relational and trauma informed responses for SCI families in crisis bringing them cutting edge SCI medical expertise as well as hope, emotional and spiritual support, and navigation how to’s. Blink of an Eye™ is training medical teams from the inside out through the families served.

She has served on both Democrat and Republican Governors’ task forces in Government transition, crime control, juvenile crime, After-School Programming, and Family Initiatives. She has been a close advisor to Maryland’s highest court’s Chief Judge on Alternative Dispute Resolution issues. She has been a close advisor for Fortune 100 Executives for navigating complex commercial transitions and creating cohesive boards of directors and Executive Leadership teams. And she is a founding Trustee for the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution in Washington, D.C., to help members of Congress from both parties talk with each other. As a result of her son’s accident and her advocacy, she was appointed by former Governor Hogan and approved by the Maryland Senate to serve on the Maryland Board of Physicians, regulating licensure and discipline in healthcare.

Whether through her Podcast, Blink of an Eye™, her book Being Relational, her blog writings and teachings or her keynote speeches, Louise brings a message of hope and ways that leaders of all walks of life, young and mature, can interact and make life, policy and business decisions consistent with the qualities of Being Relational, leaning into the art of living a full authentic life that is good for self and good for others.