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    Meet the Founders

    Operators first. The people behind the systems, and the experience that shaped them.

    Travis Garland, Co-Founder and Chief Operations Lead of KickstandAI

    Travis Garland, M.A., CSSBB, CHFP

    Co-Founder & Chief Operations Lead

    In 2020, the year of sourdough starters, Zoom fatigue, and constant reminders that "you're on mute", Travis made a personal shift to plant-based living, proving firsthand how simple habit changes lead to big outcomes.

    Professionally, Travis spent years in the trenches of enterprise healthcare operations, managing $250M P&Ls, orchestrating massive enterprise cloud migrations, and optimizing operations at UnitedHealthcare and UF Health. With an eclectic toolkit that includes a Master's in Counseling Psychology, a Six Sigma Black Belt, and executive training in Agentic AI from MIT and Stanford, he spent his career diagnosing where complex systems break down.

    At KickstandAI, Travis turns enterprise-grade operational precision and cutting-edge AI into simple, high-return tools for growing practices.

    Credentials: Master's in Counseling Psychology • Six Sigma Black Belt (Villanova) • MIT Applied Agentic AI Certified • Stanford Executive Development Graduate

    Dr. Monica Cortez-Garland, Co-Founder and Chief Clinical and Behavioral Lead of KickstandAI

    Dr. Monica Cortez-Garland, Ph.D.

    Co-Founder & Chief Clinical & Behavioral Lead

    For nearly 20 years as a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Cortez-Garland's work centered on a single truth: lasting change happens when habits align with everyday reality. That philosophy started in the clinic and quickly moved into her kitchen, where plant-based cooking became a way to actively live the science of lifestyle medicine.

    In her daily work, managing high-volume mental health programs for over 115,000 Veterans at the Orlando VA, serving as an embedded psychologist with Special Operations forces, and integrating behavioral health into primary care clinics, she saw care providers overloaded by paperwork and administrative friction.

    At KickstandAI, Monica ensures our AI tools are designed around human psychology and real clinical workflows, building systems that support providers rather than giving them another screen to manage.

    Credentials: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Texas Tech University) • Florida Licensed Psychologist • 20+ Years Clinical & Program Leadership (VA Health Care, Special Operations Command)

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