October 2024 Briefs
Announcing our 2025 Learning Agenda
How wonderful to see so many of you in Baltimore for three days full of learning at Fall Think Tank, Forum24, and the Summits for CMOs, Healthcare and Universities! If you missed it, you can find order info for the recordings in this newsletter.
We are excited to announce our 2025 learning agenda and events that expand our current offerings to members by increasing the number of Think Tank meetings to four in 2025, one in each quarter.
We also know that committing to travel to in-person events is a challenge for some, so we are innovating how we do events to be more accessible for all.
- March 2025: We will convene in person in the eastern US for a one-day Think Tank meeting on the theme of women’s health and a one-day Forum on the theme of assets-based approaches to mental health.
- May 2025: We will convene virtually for a one-day Think Tank meeting on the perils and promise of AI.
- September 2025: We will convene in person in the western US for a one-day Think Tank meeting on the theme of sustained listening and a one-day Forum on civility in the workplace, plus Healthcare & University Summits.
- November 2025: We will convene virtually for a one-day Think Tank meeting on health and well-being in KPIs.
As always, HERO member organizations can send two individuals to each in-person Think Tank meeting and three individuals to each virtual Think Tank meeting; Forum is open to all and unlimited. HERO members will continue to benefit from having access to the Think Tank recordings and the slides from all these insightful events, with the added convenience of a meeting in your region every year. HERO sponsorships will include visibility throughout the year.
We hope to see each and every one of you in 2025!
Now, read on for announcements about the release (today!) of the HERO committee report on Investing in People & Culture – What, Why and How?, the Brain Health Best Practice Score, and the 2024 HERO Health & Well-Being Awards, plus a robust list of the latest articles and convenings.
Onward,
The HERO Team
Member Updates
HERO Scorecard
HERO has teamed up with the Business Collaborative for Brain Health led by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s to launch the Brain Health Best Practice Score, an educational resource to help organizations assess their health and well-being initiative for promoting brain health.
This is the fourth best practice score now available to all organizations completing V5 of the HERO Health and Well-being Best Practices Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer©. The launch was profiled by Morningstar.
HERO Committees
What’s new with HERO Committees?
Want to be at the forefront of industry data & key topics and be a part of published reports and build deep relationships with other industry peers? Join a HERO Committee today! Here’s an update on the current committee work:
- The Research Study Subcommittee (RSS) is planning to publish an industry review on Belonging in the Workplace. Next meeting will be in February 2025.
- The Workforce Mental Health and Well-Being committee is organizing their next project around Storytelling (both personal and business), brain/mental health, psychological safety and the impact on business outcomes. Next meeting will be in December 2024.
- The People and Culture committee is celebrating the release of their latest project, a white paper titled Investing in People & Culture – What, Why and How? This committee will be meeting on November 5th to review the committee charter and discuss its next project.
If you are interested in learning more or joining a committee, please contact:
Forum24
HERO recognized six individuals with the
2024 HERO Health & Well-Being Awards in Baltimore.
Congratulations to the Award recipients:
Michael J. Critelli, JD (Bill Whitmer Leadership Award)
Ronald J Ozminkowski, PhD (Mark Dundon Research Award)
Jerry Norcia (Jerry Noyce Executive Health Champion Award)
David Ruud (Jerry Noyce Executive Health Champion Award)
Karen Personett (Heart of HERO Award)
Carlo Anton Fontenot (Healthy HERO Award)
Click to read more in the press release and awards brochure.
Recordings:
Recordings of Forum, Healthcare Summit, and University Summit sessions are available for purchase. If you want to refresh what you heard, share what you learned, or capture sessions you missed, the full library is available for purchase, with or without CE credits.
HERO Hub Updates
HERO Hub Learning Series
The next installation of the HERO Learning Series is available. Log into the HERO Hub to access these sessions, available for a limited time!
It’s almost gone…Catch it before it disappears!
Driving Health Equity in the Workplace
Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, FAHA
Structural inequity, discrimination and bias take a heavy toll on the health and well-being of employees, organizations, and their communities. The American Heart Association’s CEO Roundtable leadership collaborative of nearly 50 CEOs working to eliminate policies that lead to workplace inequities collaborated to develop guiding principles and actionable strategies to guide organizations on their journey to health equity.
Would other members of your organization be interested in viewing these resources?
Don’t have a log in? Contact Tris at pat.rohner@hero-health.org.
Remember: member organizations receive an unlimited number of log-ins, so pass it along.
Member Benefit Highlight
HERO Members, check out our monthly feature on benefits of Membership!
HERO members are eligible to feature job openings on our Job Board.
HERO’s Job Board attracts a very specialized audience of well-being professionals. This is a great way to communicate opportunities to those in health and well-being careers.
Submit your job listing to HERO.
HERO Swag Store
With the arrival of chilly weather, check out the HERO Swag Store for all your fall weather needs! From sweatshirts and pullovers to vests and more, we have it all!
Members: Log in to the MEMBERS ONLY store for discounts on all HERO swag.
HERO RECOMMENDS
Resources and Readings
- Fifty Observations About the Health Promotion Discipline: Tributes, Cautions and a Call to Action (Part One), Paul E. Terry, PhD, Volume 38, Issue 7
- Fifty Observations About the Health Promotion Discipline: Ambitions, Polemics and Inspiration (Part Two), Paul E. Terry, PhD, Volume 38, Issue 8
- Aligning Employee Health and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in the Workplace: A Call for Synchronization, Monica L. Wang, ScD, MS, Olivia Poulin, BA, and Hannah McKinney, MPP, Volume 38, Issue 8
- The Role of Health Systems in Cross-Sector Collaboration in Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Promoting Health and Well-Being, Andrea Ault-Brutus, PhD, MPA and Sashane John, MHS, Volume 38, Issue 8
- A Health System-Community Partnership to Advance Health Equity, Jack Tocco, PhD, MPH, Isma Chaudhry, MD, MPH, and Debbie Salas-Lopez, MD, MPH, Volume 38, Issue 8
- 2024 National Alzheimer’s Summit. Access to the sessions presented earlier this month and hosted by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s.
- ATTENTION HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS: Just Leaders for a Just Health System (JUSTICE SQUARED) invites healthcare organizations and patient and community leaders to engage in a trustworthy, humble, and courageous journey to confront structural racism in healthcare together–and have $300,000 in funding for teams across healthcare and community ($400,000 for safety net institutions) to advance in their guided journey. To learn more or apply to be a JUSTICE SQUARED team, please visit justicesquared.org.
- Gallup: Managers Feel More Connected to Their Organization’s Culture. Read on for other findings based on a survey of 151 Fortune 500 CHROs.
- Leaders Go First – A Mental Health Awareness Campaign by Mind Share Partners. Watch Leader Ally stories and download the playbook to craft your own story.
- US Dept. of Commerce: Job Quality Toolkit. Download this actionable tool to identify and improve the drivers most valued by workers, increasing satisfaction and engagement.
- Work, Stress, and Health 2025 Conference, July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Submission deadline: November 7.
