Healing from Without and Within: Resiliency Lessons from Olympians Sunisa Lee and Justin Spring.
Healing from Without and Within: Resiliency Lessons from Olympians Sunisa Lee and Justin Spring. By Paul Terry, Ph.D., HERO Senior Fellow and Proud Minnesota Gymnast. We Minnesotans have been ‘birging’ on Sunisa “Suni” Lee’s Tokyo Olympic comeback story. That is, we’re ‘basking in reflected glory,’ as news of her astonishing resilience keeps …
Vaccine Hesitancy Resources
HERO knows that many employers are searching for ways to combat vaccine hesitancy. As the COVID-19 Delta variant creates a new wave of infections, many organizations are seeking to mandate vaccinations for employment. HERO recommends the following links to resources and research that can help your organization combat hesitation, encourage …
One Daunting Vault, Two Resiliency Approaches: Learning from Gymnastics Champion Wendy Bruce-Martin By Paul Terry, Ph.D., HERO Senior Fellow and Former Collegiate Gymnast
One Daunting Vault, Two Resiliency Approaches: Learning from Gymnastics Champion Wendy Bruce-Martin By Paul Terry, Ph.D., HERO Senior Fellow, and Former Collegiate Gymnast As a former collegiate gymnast, I’ve experienced the ‘twisties.’ It’s a disorienting feeling where your inner gyroscope malfunctions and you don’t know which way is up. I was in a …
The Employer’s Role in Countering Mis- and Disinformation: HERO Summer Think Tank
Every day we are bombarded with information. Flooded from sources like social media, news outlets, friends, family members, and co-workers, we are all trying to find our way through the sea of data, infographics, and opinions. Little do we realize that the information coming our way is not random but …
July 2021 Briefs
Forum21 is a hybrid event for everyone. For more than a year, the world has held webinars, conferences, meetings, family events and even weddings, virtually. Now, as we all begin the first steps towards a new normal, HERO plans to hold our annual Forum in Austin, Texas. This year we continue our annual tradition of bringing together …
2021 Fall Think Tank Meeting
June 2021 Briefs
Meet HERO’s New Director of Communications! June marks a new era as our nation formally recognizes Juneteenth (June 19th), a day of immense celebration for the Black community and allies like HERO, hoping to make strides in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Juneteenth recognizes the day that the last slaves, living …
What’s new in Version 5 of the HERO Scorecard?
The HERO Health and Well-being Best Practices Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer© (HERO Scorecard) is a free online survey that was designed as an educational and benchmarking tool to help employers identify and assess their use of practices that support more effective health and well-being initiatives. Since the initial launch …
HERO May Briefs
Shine a Light: May is Mental Health Month “I wasn’t just in darkness. I had become the dark.” These powerful words were penned by my friend, Cooper Thornton, who just last week released his 13-chapter essay in which he shares very personally his experience with depression and treatment during the …
The War on Truth Reading List
HERO’s Summer Think Tank’s Theme is “The employer’s role in plugging the disinformation rabbit hole.” Below is our reading list on this subject to help us consider our roles as guardians against the growing assaults on science. Paul E. Terry, PhD, “Untangling Truth, Facts, and Opinions: Why Simple Tenets of Science Have …