Jennifer Pitts is the founder of the Institute for Positive Organizational Health, and co-founder of Edington Associates. She and Dee Edington recently coauthored a new book, Shared Values - Shared Results, a book that proposes a systems view for designing healthier cultures in organizations.
In this podcast, we talk about:
This was my favorite quote from Jennifer and great advice for anyone having trouble starting a wellness movement:
"Start a movement wherever you can get a foothold or leverage in your organization."
I also pick her brain on a focus on disease management vs wellness, systems thinking, characteristics of healthy organizations and mistakes employers make with evaluation.
Finally, Jennifer answers this question:
How do we shift the thinking from a wellness program to whole organizational health?