Workplace Solutions, Building a healthy workforce.

Workshop Descriptions

Health And Wellness Workshops

Creating a Culture of Health within Your Organization: A Transformational Business Imperative

Two companies will present their experience redefining health and wellness within their organizations. Issues address many of the hallmarks necessary for a “culture of health":

• Clear definitions of cost, value and quality
• Constituent Focused Approach to Individual Health, i.e. employee centric not benefit plan centric
• Integration of disability, illness, and return to work initiatives
• Technology solutions to effectively manage and measure successful health outcomes
• Transparency/Communication Continuum--Exec Support to Workforce Engagement
• Defining, re-setting , and clarifying cultural expectations for the organization and participants

Moderator:

• Steve Priddy
  VP, Human Resource Administration, FedEx (Retired)

Presenters:

• Sean Sullivan,
  CEO, Institute for Health & Productivity Management
• Brent Pawlecki, MD
  Corporate Medical Director, Pitney Bowes

Successful Strategies to Increase Employee Utilization of Health Benefits

This session explores the important role communication strategy and program design plays in ensuring effective and ongoing utilization of health and wellness benefits. Topics include:

• Health consumer engagement as a means to create lasting health behavior change
• How to distinguish between high utilization and program effectiveness
• Role of plan design, participation, incentives, etc

Moderators:

• Bryan Loy, MD, MBA
  Market Medical Officer, Humana
• Donald Molenaar, MD, MPH
  Medical Director , Bayer Corporate and Business Services, LLC

Presenters:

• Michael Taylor, MD
  Medical Director, Health Promotion, Caterpillar, Inc.
• Brad Wolfsen
  VP, Strategic Initiatives, Safeway, Inc.

Human Metrics of Success: Case Studies of ROI Models across Industry Type and Size

Learn from companies who have successfully measured their health and wellness programs in order to demonstrate costs savings and sustainable value. Discussion topics include:

• How to understand and measure the complete Burden of Illness not just ROI
• Measuring value rather than purely cost
• Balancing Health and Financial Outcomes

Moderator:

• Paul Hodgins, MD
  Corporate Medical Director, GE Energy

Presenters:

• Jon Cohen, MD
  Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics
• John Vlajkovic
  Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates, Inc.

American Cancer Society Workplace Solutions: Using Evidence Based Strategies to Focus on Chronic Disease Prevention among Your Workforce

Learn from companies who have successfully measured their health and wellness programs in order to demonstrate costs savings and sustainable value. Discussion topics include:

• Targeting Common Employee Health Behaviors for Effective Cancer & Chronic Disease Prevention
• Preventing Future Health Risk: How to Effectively Keep the Healthy, Healthy
• NEW Coaching programs for Tobacco and Weight Management

Moderator:

• Heather Adams, MSW
  Products Manager, American Cancer Society

Presenters:

• Jeff Cross, MPH
  Workplace Solutions Product Manager, American Cancer Society
• Shelley MacAllister
  Tobacco Products Manager, American Cancer Society

CEO Cancer Gold Standard: Optimal Health Plan Design to Prevent and Treat Cancer

• Understanding the financial/social costs of cancer within the workplace
• Increase awareness and understanding about online application for CEO Gold Standard accreditation
• Share learning and outcomes from accredited organizations

Moderator:

• John Dornan
  Executive Director, CEO Roundtable on Cancer

Presenters:

• Eileen Stowe, RN BSN, COHN-S/CM
  Manager, Occupational Health, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP
• Bill Baun, EPD, FAWHP
  Manager, Wellness Programs, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Global Health is Global Wealth

The American Cancer Society is helping to create healthier communities around the globe, in places where your employees live and work. Learn how your company can play a role and how progressive global prevention strategies can build a healthier business. This workshop will include a discussion of real world challenges and solutions.

Presenters:

• Dr. Michael L. Taylor, MD, FACP
  Medical Director, Health Promotion, Caterpillar Inc.
• Linda Gzehoviak
  Director, Global Corporate Resources, American Cancer Society

Corporate Philanthropy/Community Involvement Workshops

New Trends in Engaging Corporations in Social Issues
(all corporate citizenship practitioners attend)

Corporations are experiencing a new set of trends in their approach to social issues. Previous models of philanthropy and volunteering are morphing into a more strategic framework. Employee engagement has become a much more dynamic driver of workforce effectiveness and corporate responsibility, and new models are developing that go far beyond the traditional forms of volunteering. New forms of collective business leadership are emerging that open up new approaches to business involvement. This presentation will both document these changes, using a stages of development model and several case examples of new approaches to corporate engagement.

Presenters:

• Bradley K. Googins, PhD
  Director Emeritus Center for Corporate Citizenship, Associate Professor, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Aligning Volunteerism and Philanthropy to Business Goals

This workshop showcases companies that have built a year round, comprehensive plan which aligns their volunteerism, employee giving, corporate giving and customer engagement with business goals. Learn how companies create alignment within an overall branded philanthropic approach. This approach can help a company brand employee engagement, community support, corporate philanthropy and a workplace giving campaign with strategic charitable choices.

Presenters:

• John Gremer
  Director of Community Affairs, Walgreens
• John-Anthony Meza
  National Director of Corporate Citizenship, KPMG,LLP

Best Practices in Employee Giving Campaigns Series – Including Strategic Choices within a Campaign

Learn how companies of various sizes and structures are selecting charities to include in their workplace giving campaigns. In efforts to grow workplace giving campaigns, increase participation and overall satisfaction, companies are increasingly evaluating charitable choices offered within their campaign. The process used to go through that evaluation; outcomes and implementation are keys to successful outcomes and meeting campaign goals.

Presenters:

• Jillian Walsh
  Manager, Employee Programs and Community Relations, Zurich, North America
• Karen Thompson
  Program Manager, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Best Practices in Employee Giving Campaigns Series – Marketing and Selling the Campaign to Employees

Learn how companies are implementing strategies to gain greater participation, enthusiasm and overall giving for their workplace giving campaigns. From tried and true best practices to innovative and fun activities, companies can have great success creating a giving environment during their campaign, through strategies that fit their own corporate culture and employee demographics.

Presenter:

• S. Marshall Poindexter
  Manager, Global Corporate Citizenship/Patient Advocacy & Technology Communications, GE Healthcare

Leadership Development through National Team Programs

Learn from companies who have leveraged the use of national team programs as leadership development for their employees. The workshop will also provide examples on how the team program can help advance national team leaders' careers

Presenter:

• Sandra Lomeli
  Manager, U.S. Corporate Citizenship, GE Healthcare

National Corporate Team Program Strategies for Success

 

Presenters:

• Ruben Flores
  Community Relations, JBS
• Kristin Chin
  Corporate Affairs Manager, The Pampered Chef
• Elaine Miller
  Delta Airlines
• Cheryl T. Mittman
  Director, Global Client Information, Architecture & Risk Management, Bank of America

Creating Cancer Champions

 

Presenters:

• Pam Traxel
  Vice President, Income Development, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
• Kesslyn Smith
  Director, Patient Access & Advocacy, Oncology Policy & Reimbursement, sanofi-aventis U.S.
• Heather Adams, MSW
  Program Manager, Workplace Nutrition & Physical Activity, American Cancer Society

Employees Teaming up to Fight Cancer in their Communities

Learn about the fun, the team building, the community outreach of wellness information & the nationwide impact of the National Corporate Team Program. This “101” learning opportunity is targeted for attendees with an interest in learning about opportunities for their company in this nationwide employee engagement and recognition program

Presenters:

• Anthony Hesseltine
  Purchasing Specialist, Beverage/Paper/Plastic, Starbucks
• Judith Rogozenski
  Executive Assistant for VP of Marketing and Communications, PartyLite
• Rene Guess
  Marketing Manager, National Advertising and Charitable Partners, Curves International

 

For more information about the American Cancer Society Corporate Impact Conference, contact acsworkplacesolutions@cancer.org.