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 …
HERO May Briefs
UPCOMING EVENTS HERO Summer Think Tank Developing Dashboards to Engage Leaders at All Levels (a free MEMBERS ONLY event) June 19, 2018 | Edina, MN Register now and book your hotel room by May 19 to take advantage of a discounted rate. Join HERO and our special guests at the …
HERO Position Paper on Value of Wellness Initiatives How to Assess the evidence on “What Works”
In 2014, HERO asked recognized experts to address the question, “Do workplace health promotion (wellness)programs work?” Their collaborative paper provides an overview of the substantial evidence base indicating that well-designed, comprehensive workplace health and well-being (HWB) initiatives yield high participation rates, sustained behavior change, improved health and workplace performance, and positive economic outcomes. …
HERO April Briefs
This month finds HERO staff reflecting upon the learnings from our Winter Think Tank in Austin, Texas while we’re gearing up for our Summer Think Tank gathering in Minnesota. In Austin, we addressed the topic of “Overdosed. Are we taking in too much?” where we challenged Think Tank members to …
How are we doing at breaking the stigma about Opioids?
When something is surrounded by stigma, not talking about it comes naturally. From topics as charged as knowing someone going to prison to others as benign as dealing with a child’s bedwetting, avoidance can feel like the most reliable way to cope. But when we buy into a pattern of …