Contact: Theresa Islo
Director of Operations
Wellness Council of Wisconsin
(Milwaukee, WI)—The Wellness Council of Wisconsin will hold its 22nd Annual Worksite Wellness Conference, Making Interventions Matter, on September 26, 2012, at the Frontier Airlines
Center, Milwaukee, with expected attendance of 600 health, wellness and business professionals, and 50 exhibitors. The event will kick off with Dr. David Hunnicutt presenting the morning keynote, “Toxic or Terrific? Six Startling Statistics On Why Your Company’s Culture Matters.”
Dr. Hunnicutt is the President of the Wellness Council of America. Skill-building session presenters include local and national experts such as Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services of Alere Wellbeing; Dr. Raymond Zastrow, Chief Medical Officer of QuadMed; Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Founder and CEO of ShapeUp; Jessica Grossmeier, Vice President of Staywell Health Management; and Colleen Reilly, President of Total Well Being and Director of Wellness at Nelnet, Inc. and more. Visit http://www.wellnesscouncilwi.org for full agenda and registration.
“This event has been the largest worksite wellness-focused conference in the Midwest for many years. We bring together a highly engaged group of thought leaders from a wide variety of organizations, representing both the public and private sectors,” according to Jessica Raddemann, executive director of the Wellness Council. The two-day event includes the fourth annual pre-conference summit, The Essential Link: Wellness and Benefit Strategies, on September 25, 2012. This program will address value-based wellness and benefit design. Presenters include Carol Ann Rydahl, Health Strategies Consultant with UnitedHealthcare presenting Driving Wellness with Data Analytics; Dr. Raymond Zastrow, Chief Medical Officer of QuadMed presenting Chronic Condition Management in Value-Based Plans; and Lynda Malmberg, HR Manager of Steinhafels, Inc. presenting Impacting Healthy Lifestyle Choices at Steinhafels Furniture.
The Wellness Council of Wisconsin was founded in 1985 by the Wisconsin business community. Membership has grown from 9 founding companies to over 430 organizations representing 450,000 employees.
The Wellness Council is also the local affiliate of the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA). With more than 4000+ member organizations located throughout North America, WELCOA is highly recognized and regarded for their innovative and results-oriented approach to worksite wellness.
