She is also the co-founder of Prime Performance & Recovery, a consulting group that offers biofeedback analysis to help athletes, coaches, and professionals understand the impacts of their lifestyle on performance and recovery. As an experienced teacher educator and educator, Professor Thieman has three generations of her family who were educators before her and 13 years of experience as an agricultural educator at both the public school secondary and public post-secondary levels. Dr. Thieman has worked in a range of public school settings from small, remote rural-serving districts to large suburban districts.