Healthcare Summit 2021 will be held in November, fully virtual
PRESS RELEASE (for immediate release) Healthcare Summit shifts to fully virtual, like other HERO events Healthcare Summit will move to November 2, 2021 in fully virtual platform RALEIGH, NC (September 24, 2021) – The Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) has shifted the annual Forum conference to a fully …
September 2021 Briefs
Forum21 shifts to fully virtual event It was announced last week that HEROForum21 will shift to a fully virtual platform as the Covid-19 Delta variant continues to cause cases to rise across the United States. HEROForum21 was originally scheduled to take place in Austin, Texas during the week of October …
A word from our CEO: We can’t put learning on hold.
We can’t put learning on hold. By Karen Moseley, HERO President & CEO “The Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Board of Directors announces HEROForum21 will move to a fully virtual event.” I never expected to arrive at the same decision and outcome as we did in 2020. This year was …
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 …
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 …
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 …
HERO April Briefs
HEROForum21: Something for everyone! Early in life, I learned that you can’t please everyone all of the time, or even some of the time. While I still believe that to be true, I think we’re very close to a variety of options for HEROForum21 that will satisfy even the harshest …