Jen Groover

Author, speaker, serial entrepreneur, and fitness expert

Stamina for Success

The popular author, speaker, serial entrepreneur, and fitness expert reveals the secrets behind her holistic approach for achieving your fullest potential! In this session, Jen Groover will expose old, damaging beliefs about health, wellness, and lifestyle choices while providing new tactics for increasing your energy level, mental clarity, and positive mindset. A business/lifestyle contributor for major TV networks, Jen has presented at seminars for Time Warner; Walmart; Governors Conferences in Pennsylvania and Texas; and Fordham, Rutgers, and Philadelphia Universities. Her blueprint for success applies on the job, at home, and anywhere else life takes you.

Ned Kyle

Benefits Director, Allstate

Wellness for the Masses...Engaging the Unengageable

Ned Kyle knew that something had to change at Allstate. As their Benefits Director, overseeing all employee health and welfare programs, he clearly saw that the company's existing efforts to engage Allstate employees in their own wellbeing were simply not working. In this session, Ned explores how he and his team revamped the in-house wellness outreach at the country's largest publicly held personal-lines insurer. This 25-year Allstate veteran will also review the metrics that Allstate employs to measure the success of their most recent campaigns.

Dr. Will Clower

Award-winning neurophysiologist and author of The Fat Fallacy and The French Don't Diet Plan

Improving the Culture of Health

The award-winning neurophysiologist and author of The Fat Fallacy and The French Don't Diet Plan returns to the GlobalFit Summit! In this presentation, Dr. Clower will detail how Mediterranean Wellness has transformed corporations, including some that had already established a culture of health. Beyond the obligatory (and sparsely attended) lunch-n-learn schedule, Dr. Clower's PATH Healthy Eating and Weight-Loss Curriculum has demonstrated solid results at PPG Industries, the U.S. State Department, and firms as small as 20 employees. With his witty yet plain-spoken style, Dr. Clower was the audience favorite of our 2011 Summit, and his all-new presentation is sure to inform and entertain.

Jerry Noyce

President and CEO of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO)

Best Practices Revealed: What Has Been Learned from the HERO Scorecard

President and CEO of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), Noyce weighs in on Employer Wellness Best Practices. HERO's Scorecard is designed to help organizations learn about best practices as well as discover opportunities to improve their programs and measure progress over time. Developed in consultation with leading authorities, the Scorecard provides a valuable inventory of best practices to guide strategic planning. Jerry will discuss the six foundational elements of Employee Health Management -- Strategic Planning, Leadership Engagement, Program-Level Management, Programs, Engagement Methods, and Measurement and Evaluation.

Dr. Casey Chosewood

Senior Medical Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Healthier, Safer and More Engaged: How Can Your Workplace Culture Create Maximum Health?

What are the essential components of successful worksite health and wellness programs that create maximal health impact and a positive return on investment? Dr. Chosewood – Senior Medical Officer, WorkLife Programs, NIOSH at the CDC – will examine real-life examples of integrated worker protection and health promotion programs as well as case examples highlighting best practices. He will provide an update on the expanded NIOSH Total Worker Health™ initiative, a research-to-practice effort designed to integrate accepted principles with proven, innovative interventions. He will also discuss demographic challenges facing employers; 'health-in-all' policies; novel engagement strategies; and available resources for worker-protection and wellness programs.