Health & Wellness professionals from leading organizations clearly recognize the benefits of health and wellness programs. Most have moved beyond the need to prove that effective wellness programs increase employee productivity and reduce overall healthcare costs.

However, even health and wellness professionals from the most progressive organizations acknowledge that they are not getting the maximum value from their initiatives. This is primarily due to an inability to truly shift their organizational norms and behaviors to a Culture of Health.

Unfortunately, most organizations take a fragmented approach to health and wellness. This approach offers little hope that the necessary culture shift will occur to really sustain employee engagement and healthy behaviors.

This event is designed to provide proven techniques, and practical strategies, for guiding organizations to a Culture of Health. Each session will provide clear steps and guidelines for health and wellness professionals to engage employees in sustainable healthy behavior for increased health and organizational performance.

• Transitioning from a fragmented program approach to health and wellness to a systemic, organization-wide approach
• Creating a targeted stakeholder communication plan for all areas of the organization to ensure maximum participation
• Identifying the key values and goals of the organization that must be addressed for successful culture change
• Engaging community-wide efforts to support health and wellness
• Shifting from a culture that focuses on illness to a culture that focuses on achieving greater levels of health
• Ensuring that senior management support, and participation, is visible and consistent with organizational commitment to health and wellness
• Overcoming employee resistance to change
• Assessing available organizational resources and developing an aligned health and wellness plan
• Identifying and developing internal 'Wellness Champions'
• Empowering employees to take ownership of their health

Joel Bender, MD Former Chief Medical Officer General Motors	William B. Bunn III, MD, JD, MPH Vice President, Health, Safety, Security And Productivity Navistar, Inc
Gerri Burruel Director, Health & Welfare McKesson Corporation	Devin C. Carty Chief Experience Officer & Chief Learning Officer Vanguard Health Systems
Rick Cassidy Vice President Client Services Carewise Health, Inc	Steven F. Cyboran, ASA, MAAA, FCA Vice President and Consulting Actuary Sibson Consulting, A Division of Segal
Dee W. Edington, PhD Director, Health Management Research Center, University of Michigan; Author, "ZERO TRENDS: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy"	Ellen E. Exum Director of Wellness and Prevention PepsiCo
Raymond J. Fabius, MD, CPE, FACPE Chief Medical Officer Thomson Reuters	Christy Goldberg Senior Manager Global Health and Wellness Kraft Foods
Tammy Griffin Manager Employee Health and Wellness Central Michigan University	Fran Keane Vice President, Human Resources CentraState Healthcare System
Rebecca K. Kelly, PhD, RD, CDE Assistant Professor and Director of Health Promotion and Wellness The University of Alabama	Margie Kidd, MBA Director of Wellness Clayton Homes, Berkshire Hathaway Corporation
Cheryl Larson Vice President Midwest Business Group on Health	Ron Loeppke, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM Vice- Chairman of the Board U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Matt McDonough, JD Senior Product Director, Health Care Decision Support OptumHealth	Scott E. McFarland, JD President Cleveland Clinic Wellness
Rishabh Mehrotra President & Chief Executive Officer Carewise Health, Inc.	Sandra G. Morris, RN, MSN, CM Senior Manager, U.S. Benefits Design The Procter & Gamble Company
Don R. Powell, PhD President and Chief Executive Officer American Institute for Preventive Medicine	Jacquie Pridgeon Interim Director of Benefits & Wellness Central Michigan University
Marcia Chan Ridley, SPHR Director, Health and Productivity Premera Blue Cross	Michael H. Samuelson Senior Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island; President and Chief Executive Officer, The Health & Wellness Institute
Bruce Sherman, MD, FCCP, FACOEM Director, Health and Productivity Initiatives, Employers Health Coalition of Ohio; Consulting Corporate Medical Director, Whirlpool Corporation	Dannielle Sherrets, MPH Manager, Institute on Innovation in Workforce Well-being National Business Group on Health
Lesa Stock, RN, BSN Director of Medical Staff Services Citizens Memorial Hospital