HERO Briefs by Paul Terry (June 2016)
Health is but a role player in well-being. What are the greatest drivers of well-being and how will employers exert leadership in these other vital domains? This month’s HERO Brief catches you up on research, events and readings that get the conversation started on how health and well-being initiatives fit …
HERO Briefs by Karen Moseley (May 2016)
For the HERO team, May is typically the month in the middle…when we take a collective, though quick, breath between the February Think Tank and the Fall Think Tank and Forum…when we’re still ruminating on the robust discussions in San Diego and building the July Research Meeting agenda. As you …
ZIPONGO Takes a Bite Out of Unhealthy Eating!
Wednesday Webinar for HERO Members | April 13, 2016 Speaker: Jason Langheier, MD, MPH, CEO and Founder, Zipongo: Eating Well Made Simple. Authors: Rebecca Kelly, University of Alabama & Sheri Snow, American Cast Iron Pipe Company Zipongo is a company offering food benefits management and nutrition counseling to large, self-insured employers and …
HERO Briefs by Jessica Grossmeier (April, 2016)
Spring has officially sprung in the Northern Hemisphere, which is welcome news to those of you living and working in colder climates. Although I escaped Minnesota winters when I moved to California a few years ago, I celebrate with many of you the return to longer daylight hours, the return …
Wednesday Webinar for HERO Members with Drs. Dee Edington and Jennifer Pitts from Edington Associates, LLC
It has been well established that individual health and well-being can be improved via nutrition, exercise, and stress management. Many also now embrace a broader approach, where systems thinking and human-centered design methods foster greater organizational health with their potential for positively impacting the health of individuals, families, and communities. …
Job Board
Job Board Submit Job OpeningsAs a benefit of membership, HERO members are eligible to feature job openings on our Job Board. We see this benefit as a great way for our members to communicate opportunities to those in health and well-being careers. Submit a job opening HERO Intern Click here …
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Launches New Leadership Opportunities
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), a HERO member, has launched four new leadership programs for clinicians, researchers, doctoral students, community leaders, and industry professionals in order to continue collaboration to build a culture of health in the U.S. The new programs include: Health Policy Research Scholars Clinical Scholars …
HERO Briefs by Paul Terry (March, 2016)
When you think about the future of work, what role will health and well-being professionals play? For those of you who missed our February Think Tank Roundtable in San Diego, we took our cues from the local expansive blue skies and did just such thinking. In this month’s HERO Brief, …
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 …