Announcing WCWI’s 2019 Pre-Conference Speaker

Jen Arnold is host of the Redesigning Wellness podcast where she interviews experts on the topic of organizational health. Jen’s on a mission to change the common approach to employee health and wellness. To support this mission, she facilitates employee training that addresses leadership, resilience and mindfulness.

 

For the 16 years prior to starting her own business, Jen led organizational health and wellness efforts and advised employers how to start them. Most recently, she worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC for over 8 years leading a team of health promotion professionals. 

 

Jen is a Tedx speaker who uses stories, activities and humor to not only make a point but to keep audiences engaged and listening. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and two children. 

Learn more about Jen and her podcast: 

As Worksite Wellness professionals, we set out to positively impact the lives of many employees. We follow the traditional protocol, taking the doughnuts out of the cafeteria, creating countless wellness activities to join and telling employees all about their risk factors. 

 

While our efforts may be helpful to some, these actions cause wellness to be siloed, disconnects us from business goals and put labels on us like “food police”. Taking on the role as the wellness subject matter expert puts a lot of responsibility on our shoulders when in reality, employee wellbeing is impacted by many other factors out of our control.

 

 

 

Assistant Director, Marketing & Membership

lgrenfell@wellnesscouncilwi.org