HERO Think Tank Proceedings
The Future of Work Surfacing the Consonance and Dissonance between Employee Engagement and Employee Health February 23-24, 2016 San Diego, CA By Paul Terry, Ph.D., President and CEO, HERO In music, consonance and dissonance relate to how agreeable/disagreeable sounds can be when put together. At this year’s Think Tank, my ear …
HERO Webinar from our February 2016 Think Tank in San Diego – Practitioner Panel
The Future of Work: Practitioners Discuss Environmental Practices that Bolster Performance This webinar features an employer panel chaired by David Schweppe from Kaiser Permanente is available for HERO members only in our Resource Center. Also on this recording is a recap about the Think Tank Proceedings from HERO President Paul …
Wednesday Webinar with Dr. Steven Noeldner
In this Wednesday Webinar, Dr. Steven Noeldner from Mercer discusses the release of the international version of the HERO Health and Well-being Best Practices Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer© (HERO Scorecard). The official release for this global version will be at the end of February, following our Think Tank meeting. …
HERO Briefs from Karen Moseley, Vice President of Education (February 2016)
Word of the Day: Well-Being In this month’s HERO Briefs, you’ll notice a common theme: well-being. A quick Google search of the term results in more than 66 million hits (compared to 414 million for “wellness”). While it may not yet be a mainstream topic around the dinner table, the …
Understanding the Relationship between Engagement and Health & Well-Being
As a strategy consultant for Mayo Clinic, Jennifer Flynn is focused on Mayo’s mission to improve the health and well-being of individuals as well as the larger population. The question she is often faced with, though, is what comes first: healthy employees being more engaged in their work or engaged …
Deconstructing Organizational Support
Authored by, Tatiana Shnaiden, M.D., Chief Analytics Officer, HealthFitness Tatiana brings over 15 years of experience in health care analytics. Prior to joining HealthFitness she served as vice president of value optimization for ActiveHealth Management, evaluating health management and clinical decision support. She holds a master’s degree in biostatistics from New …
HERO Briefs by Jessica Grossmeier (December 2015)
December can be a frenetic time of meeting year-end deadlines, preparing for winter holidays, and planning for the next year. So this month’s briefings seek to integrate balance with busy-ness by highlighting news, events, and resources that “give back” in some way. Read on about health-related movie therapy, February Think …
HERO Briefs by Paul Terry (November 2015)
My November briefings share news, events and learnings that epitomize the rapidly changing landscape in workplace health promotion. We have catalogued HERO Forum15 for your continued reference and we urge you to visit HERO’s Facebook page to recall the shenanigans of your friends from around the nation. Teaser alert! These briefs …
HERO Member Profile: The Dow Chemical Company
HERO Member Profile: The Dow Chemical Company For this issue of HERO On Health, we interviewed Cathy Baase, M.D., chief health officer with The Dow Chemical Company. Dr. Baase drives health and wellness efforts for Dow’s 53,000 employees, with direct responsibilities for all occupational health, epidemiology and health promotion staff …