Building a Culture of Health Within Your Organization
Business leaders have an opportunity to establish health as a key organizational value, and to create a Culture of Health – a workplace culture that promotes good health for everyone. Within a Culture of Health, employees will find it easier to make healthy choices. New health behaviors will more likely be sustained for a lifetime. Program results will be magnified.
Learn how you can build on your current strengths to develop a shared wellness vision that promotes health and productivity while enhancing revenues.
Attend this webinar to learn:
How a Culture of Health will increase your organization's bottom line
How a Culture of Health can promote increased morale and productivity
Five key steps to develop a Culture of Health
Don't miss this opportunity to hear two international experts!
Speaker Bios
Dee Edington, PhD
D.W. Edington is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan, Director of the Health Management Research Center, and a Research Scientist in the School of Public Health. In addition to his research and teaching, he has spent 25 years in academic administration.
Trained in mathematics, kinesiology and biochemistry, Dr. Edington received his BS and PhD degrees from Michigan State University and completed his MS at Florida State University. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto and taught at the University of Massachusetts before coming to Michigan in 1976.
Dr. Edington's research focuses on the precursors of disease and vitality. His interest is in the relationships between healthy lifestyles, vitality and quality of life, as they benefit both individuals and organizations. He is specifically interested in how individual health promotion and worksite health management within organizations impact health care cost containment, performance, and human resource development. He is the author or co-author of more than 800 articles, numerous presentations and several books, including Biology of Physical Activity, Biological Awareness, Frontiers of Exercise Biology,The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life and Zero Trends: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy.
The Health Management Research Center's Health Risk Appraisal has been completed by more than 4.5 million individuals. The concepts and materials from the Center have influenced health promotion and wellness programs in hundreds of corporate worksites. Current research is concentrated on 20 organizations and more than 1.5 million persons who have been in the HMRC database for up to 15 years. These longitudinal studies continue to provide leading-edge research learning opportunities.
Joe Checkley, MA
Joseph Checkley is an employee benefit, wellness and productivity consultant, specializing in the design, launch and perfection of health and productivity initiatives customized to clients’ particular circumstances and needs.
As a consultant, Joe has more than 25 years of experience inside the health care industry and inside the C-suite. Most recently, Joe was the Executive Director of Employee Benefits for Quest Diagnostics. At Quest, he had responsibility for all employee benefit programs, with a particular passion for Quest’s health and wellness initiative.
Prior to joining Quest, Joe was the Vice President of Corporate Benefits for American Standard. As at Quest, Joe had global responsibility for all employee benefit programs, but his most signal achievement was the visioning and creation of American Standard’s groundbreaking health and productivity program known as LifeSteps. American Standard was one of the first large employers to understand the opportunity wellness presents and, with his team; Joe created a program and a cultural transformation that exceeded all organizational expectations for cost management and employee engagement.
Joe has been a frequent speaker on health and productivity issues at venues such as The Conference Board, The National Business Group on Health, The Disease Management Association of America, The Institute for Health and Productivity Management, The Global Strategy Initiative and others. He received degrees from Montclair State University and The Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.
