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Why Do Employers Need a Strategic
Worksite Wellness Program?
Contributed by Dr. Brent Green on December 14, 2015 in Organization, Change, & HR
Editor’s Note: This article provides an overview to the guide, Why Employers Need a
Strategic Worksite Wellness Program. This guide is a 23-slide editable PowerPoint
presentation developed by this article’s author, Dr. Brent Green. It is available for purchase
on the Flevy documents marketplace here.
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This PowerPoint presentation offers an excellent overview of the foundation elements of a
high performance employer wellness program.
The presentation covers the core rationale for a worksite wellness strategy and outlines the
importance of changeable lifestyle risk factors. Afterwards, a four stage evolutionary model
of employer program options is presented, with reference to ROI and data from two case
studies.
Unlike most reviews of organization wellness programs, this presentation deck offers a
strategic overview which is evidenced-based from the author’s extensive experience as an
organization change professional.
Four employer program options are detailed. One key takeaway for the reader is that far more
than employer-sponsored gym or fitness membership for employees are needed in order to
produce substantial cost savings, increased employee moral, retention, increases in employer
brand, and boasts in employee productivity. The greater the amount of resources committed
the higher the likelihood of program benefit.

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The presentation outlines the pros and cons of health risk appraisals (or HRAs), the single
most critical element for an effective worksite wellness program. The presentation concludes
with a list of suggested resources.
About Dr. Brent Green
Dr. Brent Green is a strategic organization change consultant. His focus is executive
development and change leadership. Brent is former Director of Training and
Organization Development (OD) for Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco, Director of
OD at McKesson, and others. He is a contributor to the Flevy documents marketplace.
You can view his materials here. He completed his masters degree in public health leadership from
UC-Berkeley, and later a Ph.D. in organization psychology. He is a former National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellow, an NGO at the UN-Vienna, and consumer representative consultant to the FDA in
Washington DC. Dr. Green’s publications appear in a broad variety of professional journals including
The International Journal of Social Psychiatry, the national Organization Development Practitioneer

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journal, the global Organization Development Institute, The International Journal of Public
Administration, and The Journal of Social Issues. He has written on topics as diverse as leadership
development, program evaluation, consulting skill models, stress management, medication misuse
prevention, and aging. A frequent speaker, consultant, and facilitator Brent is also an adjunct
instructor at UC-Davis Extension. He is a volunteer career counselor at the San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce Job Forum, and an avid tennis player.

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