From Wellness to Well-being to “Collective Well-being”: Our field’s growing ambitions in research and practice
In this session, Yale’s Brita Roy will unveil a new, literature based model called “Collective well-being” which can serve as a holistic measure of the overall “health” of a community. Patty Purpur de Vries will review Stanford’s “Well-being Framework” and we will compare these models and discuss how each offers …
Lifestyle Management Services Associated with Employee Health Risk and Medical Costs
By Xiaohui (Sherry) Tang, PhD, Research Coordinator, Baylor College of Medicine As an experienced researcher and behavioral epidemiologist, Dr. Xiaohui (Sherry) Tang is skilled in epidemiology, health promotion, and data analysis. She is strongly interested in design, implementation, and evaluation of worksite well-being initiatives and promotion of healthy workplace culture. Sherry …
Marion Nestle: One of my Heroes who Disrupts the Spread of Falsity in Nutrition
In one of the most memorable first sentences of a historic novel, Charles Dickens prepared readers for his story about the French Revolution by writing, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Literary scholars have reflected on his flair for developing themes of good and …
Shared Responsibility for Resilience: Uncovering the Factors
Washington, DC-based Greenleaf Integrative completed a study for the globally-dispersed governmental agency, USAID, to assess the psychosocial difficulties and contextual stressors faced by the agency’s humanitarian relief workers and the supports available to them. The key insights from the study fueled recommendations for structural changes within the agency, as well …
What’s Your Mountain?
Jennifer Bruno, Vice President of Global Health Services, Johnson & Johnson, and Jack Groppel, PhD, Co-founder of Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, were tested when climbing the largest mountain on the African continent. From the known challenges they planned for to the unknown events they could never have imagined, …
2018 Fall Think Tank Meeting
HERO July Briefs
INTRODUCTION Summer Think Tank Proceedings Now Available! “No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.” –Daniel Kahneman, as quoted by Michael Lewis in “The Undoing Project” During last month’s Summer Think Tank event, Dr. Paul Terry encouraged the 80 HERO members and guests convened …
HERO June Briefs
UPCOMING EVENTS Join us via webinar at the HERO Summer Think Tank Developing Dashboards to Engage Leaders at All Levels (a free MEMBERS ONLY event) June 19, 2018 | Edina, MN Registration is still open for the HERO Summer Think Tank meeting. If you cannot attend in person, we are …
Leadership Support and the Effectiveness of Wellness Initiatives
By Octavia Zahrt, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Octavia Zahrt is a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is interested in innovative ways to help people thrive at work and beyond. Her work draws on organizational behavior, psychology, and human-computer interaction to investigate …
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opioid Epidemic
Following on the HERO Winter Think Tank, “Overdosed: Are we taking in too much?”, the HERO team is proud to bring you a unique opportunity to join us in a book club discussion with journalist and author, Sam Quinones. Not only did Quinones win the National Book Critics Circle Award …