Executive Team

Isis Maternity’s executive team has over 20 years of experience in the health care industry. Our professional backgrounds range from public policy to strategic consulting, providing us with a strong foundation on which to build Isis Maternity. We are committed to continuing to provide you with the highest level of service in a caring and nurturing environment.

Johanna Myers McChesney
President and CEO

Jo is the President and CEO of Isis Maternity. She has more than thirteen years of management experience in the health care industry. Prior to starting Isis Maternity, she worked in the strategy consulting practice at Accenture, where she helped health care and other clients to address their strategic business and technology needs. Previously, Jo was a project director at Harvard University’s Medical School and School of Public Health where she conducted health care policy research on issues including health care quality and access to health care for underserved populations. Jo received her MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA from Kenyon College. She is the mother of two outstanding little boys – Jackson and Tyler.

Amy Finn
Vice-President, Center Operations

Amy is the vice president of center operations for Isis Maternity. She has extensive experience in the area of health care marketing and communications. At Spence Centers for Women’s Health, she served as Director of Marketing for this innovative network of outpatient health facilities providing traditional and alternative healthcare services for women. More recently, Amy was a co-founder and VP of Marketing and Operations for iEmily, a health and wellness portal for teen girls, where she helped create a comprehensive and user friendly teen Web site with a large and loyal visitor audience. Amy lives in Needham and has two young children.

Lee Courtemanche
Director of Retail

Lee is the Retail Director of Isis Maternity. She brings over thirty years of experience as an analyst, business owner, midwife, childbirth educator, yoga instructor and mother. Lee received her BA from Boston College and completed the Greater Boston Executive Management Program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has worked for Harvard University, Simmons College and Wang Laboratories.

The birth of her two children inspired Lee’s interest in the world of maternity and the pursuit of a new career path. She earned her midwifery certificates from the Massachusetts Midwives’ Alliance, attended births in the Boston area and traveled to El Paso, Texas to provide maternity services at a birth clinic on the Mexican border. Upon her return to Massachusetts, she started a consulting business offering private childbirth classes, prenatal nutrition consultations, group yoga classes and maternity products.

As a member of the Isis Maternity founding group, Lee started and developed the yoga program and retail business. Her expertise, and that of her team, has been recognized by numerous publications and media outlets: Best New Business by the Retail Association of Massachusetts; WBZTV.com A-List; Boston’s Favorite Maternity Shop by Boston Parents’ Paper; Retail Innovator Award by Kids Today.

Nancy Holtzman RN, BSN, IBCLC
Director, Early Parenting Programs

Nancy created and oversees many of the prenatal and new parent programs at Isis Maternity and helped to brainstorm and shape Isis Maternity back when it was still an idea discussed in living rooms and coffee shops around town. Nancy has 20 years of clinical nursing experience: ten years at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital and later as a mother/baby nurse educator and board certified lactation consultant. As founder of the Great Beginnings series, she has personally facilitated twelve years worth of programs for mothers and babies. She speaks and writes for a national audience about breastfeeding and infant development, and has served on the board of MLCA, the Massachusetts Lactation Consultants Association. She received a BS from Northeastern University College of Nursing, and a Certificate in Advanced Pediatric Assessment from Boston College. Nancy lives just outside Boston with her husband and children: a teenaged daughter and a ‘tween’-aged son.

Chris Just MSN, CNM, Cert. Yoga Instr.
Director, Childbirth Education

Chris is the director of our childbirth education program. She is a registered nurse, certified nurse midwife and certified yoga instructor with more than ten years of maternity care experience in both educational and clinical roles. She has attended more than 500 births and taught more than 100 parent/childbirth education classes for several organizations, including Newton-Wellesley Hospital and Cambridge Hospital. Chris served in the Peace Corps in Honduras and is fluent in Spanish. She received a MSN from Yale University and a BA from Middlebury College. Chris enjoys time with her husband, Jim, and their young son and daughter.