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About the Presenters
Facilitators – Joel Bennett, PhD
Joel Bennett, PhD, (University of Texas at Austin, 1985), is President of Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm that specializes in promoting organizational health and employee well-being. Dr. Bennett is primary developer (with colleagues from Texas Christian University) of "Team Awareness," the first workplace-based SAMHSA Model program recognized as effective in preventing employee substance abuse. He has assisted various organizations to adapt prevention for the military, small businesses, corporations, ex-offender populations, native American/tribal governments, and across various industries (e.g., construction/electricians, hospitality/restaurant). Dr. Bennett has served on advisory boards for Magellan Behavioral Health Care; the Management, Spirituality & Religion Division of the Academy of Management; and the International Conference on "Work, Stress, and Health" co-sponsored by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. He has consulted for federal and local government, as well as privately held and military organizations, and is a peer reviewer for scientific journals in the field of organizational health. Dr. Bennett has been invited to speak on workplace health for such organizations as the United States Air Force, the Department of Labor, and various Healthcare and Employee Assistance Professionals associations. He has published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, Work & Stress, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Drug Issues, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Journal of Health & Social Behavior, Journal of Studies in Alcohol, and others. Dr. Bennett recently co-authored "Preventing Workplace Substance Abuse: Beyond Drug-Testing to Wellness" (American Psychological Association, 2003). He is author of “Time and Intimacy: A New Science of Personal Relationships” (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000), and co-author of “Heart-Centered Leadership: An Invitation to Lead from the Inside Out” released in the fall of 2003. He is Principal Investigator of various projects such as "The Small Business Wellness Initiative," “Health Promotion for Young Restaurant Workers,” and “Internet Programs for Executive Health.”
About the Program
The OWL’s Lead Well, Live Well approach facilitates delivery of health promotion programs to workplaces and reduces manager and employee risks for cardiovascular disease. Workplace managers and executives can present significant medical savings to an organization through three positive paths of influence:
- they provide supportive supervision and positive leadership, a known health protective factor in the work environment;
- they model heart healthy life-styles to associates (role modeling); and
- managers and executives make decisions about providing health promotion programs.
This session will help EAP’s identify opportunities to integrate and align health messages within business relevant leadership development content;draw on the empirical relationship between healthy lifestyle and known behavioral risks in leaders (stress, social isolation, power motivation).
Participants will:
- Understand the core elements of Heart-Centered Leadership and a Model of Executive Health
- Review key findings from the largest executive health study in the world
- Clarify that prevention of risks for executive health begin downstream at earlier stages of the managerial career
Participants will have a chance to ask questions.
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