7:15am – 8:00am
Conference Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:00am – 8:15am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks

8:15am – 9:00am
From Siloes to Ecosystem: Integrating Clinical, Occupational and Wellness Services
Most workplace health services remain operationally and clinically disconnected. On-site clinics provide primary care. Occupational health manages injuries and compliance. Wellness programs run health challenges. Mental health is contracted out. Yet integration is where the real impact happens. When primary care clinicians know about workplace ergonomic risks, injury prevention improves. When occupational health providers address chronic disease driving workplace injuries, both safety and health improve. When wellness and clinical care are connected, lifestyle interventions are prescribed and measured rather than just promoted. Leading organizations have fundamentally restructured how health services operate together, breaking down departmental silos, creating shared clinical protocols and building governance ensuring coordination. Topics include:

• Organizational structures enabling true clinical and operational integration
• Clinical protocols connecting primary care, occupational health and wellness
• Governance models ensuring coordination rather than competition
• Measurement approaches tracking outcomes across integrated services

Emily Sullivan Director
Employee Medical and Occupational Medicine Clinics
Memorial Hermann

Kristi Brady
Director, Employee Wellness
Memorial Hermann

9:00am – 9:45am
Building Mindful Relationships: How Social Connection Strengthens Community Wellbeing
Research continues to show that social relationships are essential to resilience, health, and overall wellbeing. As organizations look beyond traditional workplace wellness programs, there is an opportunity to foster stronger connections among employees, families, and communities. This session would explore how intentional relationship-building can improve wellbeing outcomes, create a greater sense of belonging, and strengthen the social fabric that supports healthier communities.

Holly Greer
Sr. Manager, Global Benefits and Well-being
Hewlett Packard Enterprises

9:45am – 10:15am
Networking & Refreshments Break

10:15am – 11:00am
Chronic Disease Management in the Workplace: Beyond Generic Wellness
Thirty percent of employees have one or more chronic conditions. Diabetes affects one in ten workers. Hypertension, cardiovascular disease and obesity are epidemic. Yet most workplace programs offer generic wellness addressing no condition specifically. This creates a strange disconnect: the sickest employees, those most needing support, have programs designed for healthy people. Condition-specific management requires clinical expertise, disease-specific protocols and dedicated resources. This session explores building diabetes management programs including clinical protocols for screening and management, integration of medication management with lifestyle change, engaging employees managing multiple conditions simultaneously and measuring outcomes through clinical markers rather than just participation metrics.

Shanna Dunbar
Founder and President
Workplace Health Inc

11:00am – 11:45am
Beyond Benefits: Building a Workplace Where Well-Being Becomes Culture
Well-being is more than offering wellness programs and employee benefits—it is shaped by the everyday workplace experience. This session explores how leadership, managers, workplace systems, and organizational culture influence employee well-being and trust. It will examine why employees may not use resources that are available to them and what organizations can do to close that gap. The session will also connect well-being to engagement, retention, productivity, and organizational resilience.

Dr. Teaa Allston-Bing
Human Resources Director
City of Peachtree City, Georgia 

11:45am – 12:30pm
The Business Case for Embracing the “Food as Medicine” Movement
According to Fidelity Health Thought Leadership, 47% of employees prefer to manage health conditions with lifestyle changes - like healthy eating – in place of medication.  In response, doctors are writing "prescriptions" for fresh and healthy foods and hospitals are investing in community gardens. Leading employers are now taking note and looking for wellness interventions that are aligned to these preventative efforts. “Food as medicine” offers a framework for understanding which efforts best engage various cohorts within a workforce. But with only 38% of employees having access to healthy, affordable food at work there is much to be done. Join us to learn more about food as medicine and how you might integrate it into your health and wellness offerings.

Benjamin Isgur
Vice President, Fidelity Health Thought Leadership
Fidelity Investments

12:30pm – 1:30pm
Networking Lunch

1:30pm – 2:15pm
Injury Management in the Workplace: Supporting Recovery & Reducing Costs
Effective workplace injury management can help employees recover faster, return to work safely, and regain financial stability and a sense of purpose. At the same time, organizations benefit through reduced workers’ compensation costs, improved productivity, and stronger employee support.

This session explores practical strategies for creating a successful return-to-work process that benefits both employees and employers.

Bonnie (Griffin) Heinrich, RN, COHN-S/CM
Certified Occupational Health Nurse/Case Manager
Amentum

2:15pm – 3:15pm
Panel: Embedding Wellbeing into Workplace Design and Organizational Culture
Health benefits matter but they're insufficient if work is organized to destroy health. Psychological safety, reasonable workload, autonomy and schedule flexibility are health interventions as powerful as clinical care. Leading organizations have redesigned jobs, built psychologically safe cultures and restructured work enabling health rather than undermining it. This panel explores how organizational design itself becomes health strategy.

Allison Zurcher
Benefits & Occupational Health Manager | Human Resources
City of Davenport 

Holly Greer
Sr. Manager, Global Benefits and Well-being
Hewlett Packard Enterprises

3:15pm – 3:45pm
Networking & Refreshments Break

3:45pm – 4:30pm
GLP-1 Medications, Weight Loss and Workplace Health: Clinical and Business Questions
GLP-1 receptor agonists have transformed weight management with unprecedented efficacy. Yet workplace implementation raises complex questions. Cost per employee can exceed $10,000 annually. Coverage decisions affect equity—do high earners get access while lower-paid workers don't? What's the clinical oversight model? How does it integrate with nutrition counseling and exercise? What happens to weight after discontinuation? This session examines clinical protocols, cost-benefit analysis, integration with lifestyle interventions, managing side effects and measuring outcomes beyond just weight loss to include metabolic health improvements and functional outcomes.

4:30pm – 5:15pm
Mind Matters: The Neuroscience of Workplace Performance and Productivity
This session will examine how companies can use brain-based workplace strategies to generate high levels of employee performance and productivity. Capitalizing on the latest research from neuroscience, organizations can develop practical solutions to reduce employee stress and burnout while developing resilience.  Through a combination of education, workplace designs, and strategic leadership, companies can equip their employees to perform at optimal cognitive levels and build sustainable high-performance cultures. 

Gabrielle Harmening, MS, ACSM
Director, Worksite Wellness Operations
Health Care Management
Health Care Service Corporation

5:15pm
End of Day One