Improving Employee Wellness Seminars

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1 Improving Employee Wellness Seminars June 26 27, 2008 Chicago, IL Improving Presenteeism, Productivity and Well-Being Reducing the Cost of Care Trusted Insights for Business Worldwide

2 Topics to be covered include: How to Link Employee Well-Being to the Bottom Line Obtaining Funding for Your Wellness Initiatives: Making the Business Case for a Healthy Workforce Behavior Change Models Yoga at Nine: Create a Culture of Wellness by Modeling the Millennial Generation Communication & Branding Best Practices Update on Conference Board Research on Obesity

3 Dear Colleague, It s not news that a vast majority of corporate Benefits, Health and Human Resources executives agree that health benefit cost management is a top priority. It s also common knowledge that the performance of healthy, engaged employees surpasses those that are not. As health care costs continue to skyrocket, tailored behavior change programs are being touted as the next generation of affordable, effective solutions for employee health and wellness. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors can be changed with the right kind of support. Whether the issues involve smoking cessation, stress management, obesity, or depression, targeted programs based on the latest advances in behavioral health research and technology are providing employers with increasingly effective and affordable methods for improving workforce health and productivity. These are some of the issues we ll discuss at our Employee Wellness seminar in Chicago this June, so please join us for an informative, interactive discussion. Sincerely, Gregg Mauro Seminar Program Director The Conference Board Sponsorships & Exhibitions Your company can be in front of many senior corporate HR, health care and benefits executives via sponsorship or table-top exhibition. Please contact Gregg Mauro for details and more information at , or at gregg.mauro@conference-board.org.

4 Day One, June 26, 2008 Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8-9 am Integrative Wellness, the Key to Employee Engagement: How to Cultivate Employee Well-Being to Profit the Corporate Bottom Line General Session A: 9 10:15 am To be fully engaged in the demands of the competitive workplace, one must have the physical stamina, the emotional balance and mental stability to focus optimally. Mary Liz Murphy shows you how to bring a fresh vision and an innovative, integrated approach to wellness and employee implementation. You ll learn how to: Guide your employees to take ownership of their health and well-being Enhance employees physical, mental and emotional states Consistently tap into your employees Inner Resources for peak performance and vitality Integrate sustainable wellness practices into employees lives Improve collaboration as a result of personal balance and centeredness Mary Liz Murphy, CHC, AADP Personal Performance and Wellness Specialist, More LifeForce, Inc. Wellness Working Group Principal Researcher, The Conference Board Networking Refreshment Break: 10:15-10:45 am How Cognitive Fitness Enhances Productivity & Presenteeism General Session B: 10:45 am-12:15 pm Jeri Sedlar, Senior Advisor, The Conference Board Co-Author, Don t Retire, Rewire! Luncheon: 12:15 1:15 pm Corporate Wellness Case Study: Southern Company General Session C: 1:15 2:45 pm Lauren Whitt, Ph.D., Wellness Coordinator Southern Company Networking Refreshment Break: 2:45-3:15 pm

5 Yoga at Nine: Create a Culture of Wellness by Modeling the Millennial Generation General Session D: 3:15-4:45 pm Join us to learn from the generation that knows when to say NO and knows when to say YES to proactive choices about mind, body and spirit. The workplace is changing and the way we work is taking a toll on the workforce. And the answers may be right in front of us. The vacation-taking, juice-drinking, yoga mat-toting Millennials have a lot to teach us about life balance and proactive wellness choices. The generation that knows how to define enough enough work, enough stress also knows when to take a break, work out, and adjust their eating habits. They may be high maintenance and high risk, but they are high output as well. You ll learn how to: View wellness through a generational lens Think like a Millennial about physical, social and emotional health Effectively communicate your organization s wellness messages so they get through to your Millennials Share Millennials resilience with other generations in your workforce Devon Scheef, Co-Founder, The Learning Cafe Diane Thielfoldt, Co-Founder, The Learning Cafe Day Two, June 27, 2008 Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8-9 am How Personal Can We Get with Employees in Our Effort to Build a Culture of Wellness? General Session E: 9-10:30 am This topic deals with the fact that in order to get a clear and accurate picture of the wellness challenge we face, it is necessary to understand how our employees view their wellness, and what they are doing to take responsibility for their health. To get access to this information, there is a need to get personal with our employees concerning issues our employees may not be willing to share. We ll talk about privacy concerns being a stumbling block in obtaining the information we d like access to. We ll discuss: Why do people feel the need to be private with information pertaining to their health? How do we get employees to share and be comfortable sharing and taking responsibility for the steps they need to take? Ashley Gillihan, Esq., Counsel, Alston & Bird Networking Refreshment Break: 10:30-11 am Call Customer Service at

6 Obtaining Funding for Your Wellness Initiatives: Making the Business Case for a Healthy Workforce General Session F: 11 am 12:30 pm How do we transform the debate over the cost of healthcare into a strategic discussion of the business value of workforce health? How do we make CFOs allies in this conversation? Dr. Thomas Parry, President of the Integrated Benefits Institute, will draw upon two major surveys of chief financial officers and other IBI research to address several questions: Do CFOs view health and healthcare as a cost center or something more important to their business? How would CFOs measure and link workforce health to productivity and the bottom line of their businesses? What does research show as the true costs of health to be in business terms? Thomas Parry, Ph.D., President, Integrated Benefits Institute Luncheon: 12:30 1:30 pm Corporate Wellness Case Study: Thomson Reuters General Session G: 1:30 2:45 pm Thomson Reuters (TR) introduced an annual health risk questionnaire (HRQ) in Through one of its companies, Thomson Healthcare, TR integrates the survey responses with medical, prescription drug, and short-term disability claims. In this session, Chris Bracher will discuss the findings from a recent integrated analysis of these benefits. Mr. Bracher will review the differences between HRQ participants and non-participants in terms of risk, demographics, medical and disability costs, and presenteeism. He will also describe potential action steps that TR and other employers can take from the findings. Christian Bracher, Director, Health and Welfare Benefits, The Thomson Corporation Networking Refreshment Break: 2:45-3 pm Update on Conference Board Research on Obesity General Session H: 3-4:15 pm A current workplace challenge not typically posed as such, but nonetheless imposing mounting costs on business and society, is obesity. During this session, Linda Barrington will provide us with an update on her research and provide take-aways you can use in understanding the threat the obesity problem may pose to your company s wellness initiatives. Linda Barrington, Research Director, Management Excellence, The Conference Board

7 Improving Employee Wellness Seminars June 26-27, 2008 Register your team by phone, fax or on the web at Phone Customer Service at :30 am to 6 pm ET Monday through Friday Fax completed registration form to: Mail The Conference Board, Inc., P.O. Box 4026, Church Street Station, New York, NY Please print or attach a business card; for additional registrants, duplicate this form. Name Title Department Company Address City _ State Zip Telephone ( ) Fax ( ) Agenda Code Payment Check payable to The Conference Board for $. Charge to my: American Express Discover MasterCard Visa Acct. No. Exp. Date Signature Date *Cancellations subject to penalty of $500 administration fee up to two weeks before. No refund after two weeks before seminar. Register Tel: Fax: Mail: The Conference Board, Inc. P.O. Box 4026, Church Street Station New York, NY Agenda code PDF June 26, 2008 (# ) June 27, 2008 (# ) Palmer House Hilton 17 East Monroe Street Chicago, IL Tel: Hotel Reservations Cut-off Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 Registration Fees payable in advance in U.S. dollars* Two day registration Associate: $2,600 Non-Associate: $2,960 One day registration Associate: $1,445 Non-Associate: $1,645 Discount code The Conference Board and the torch logo are registered trademarks of The Conference Board, Inc. Program subject to change. April 2008