We are excited to announce, on May 22, 2012, Neace Lukens, will host a one day Conference on Health & Productivity in Charleston, South Carolina.  This, the Inaugural Health & Productivity Conference for the Charleston area, will bring to you the challenge of “Walking the Talk”.  Nationally-renowned experts will energize participants with an in-depth look at the impact nutrition and movement have in improving the productivity and holistic health of your employees as well as the role that incentives integrated with benefits play in driving participation, and the real “why”, challenged with the real “how” and inspired with real “root answers” to this health crisis we all face.  In addition, participants will have the opportunity to listen and pose questions to a Panel of experts comprised of Mark D. Senn PhD, FAACVPR, Senior Director, LifeFit Wellness Services at Beaufort Memorial Hospital; Michael John Foresman, Vice President of Sales for Cigna HealthCare of the Carolina’s; Tonya Vyhlidal, M.Ed., CHPD, Wellness Manager, Nelnet; and Pamela A. Popper, PhD, ND, Executive Director, The Wellness Forum.  This Panel, along with Featured Presenters, Tonya Vyhlidal, Dr. Pamela Popper, and Mike Campbell will discuss some revolutionary concepts in the area of Worksite Wellness.

Featured presenters for the Neace Lukens Conference on Health & Productivity are:

Tonya Vyhlidal, MEd, CHPD, Wellness Program Manager, Nelnet_®. She is responsible for the overall operational duties and strategic support of Nelnet’s award winning wellness program for a population of 2400 people nationally. Tonya will provide evidence of the value of incentives and how a results-based, fun wellness program can increase participation and encourage improve health across an organization.

Pamela A. Popper, PhD, ND, Executive Director, The Wellness Forum_.

Dr. Pam Popper is a naturopath, an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine and health, and is Executive Director of The Wellness Forum which offers educational programs designed to assist individuals in changing their health outcomes through improved diet and lifestyle habits; to assist employers in reducing the costs of health insurance and medical care for employees; and to educate health care professionals about how to use diet and lifestyle for preventing, reversing, and stopping the progression of degenerative disease. She is Founder of the Wellness Forum Foundation which offers programming in schools designed to improve children’s health through better nutrition. She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People and Making a Killing and appears in a new film, Forks Over Knives, which opened in major theaters in May 2011. She is one of the co-authors of the companion book which is on the New York Times bestseller list.

Mike Campbell, Chief Wellness Officer, Neace Lukens_. Leading in Employee Benefits Mike’s work spans four decades as an owner, broker and consultant with a lifelong passion for holistic wellness. As an owner of Neace Lukens, Mike serves today as the Chief Wellness Officer and provides leadership and guidance to the Department of Corporate Health & Productivity. In addition to wellness and employee benefits consulting he also functions as Health and Productivity Ambassador at large for Neace Lukens.  Mike works in a strategic planning capacity with his clients maintaining the very best in benefits management services, employee education, wellness and the innovative programs designed to meet needs and cut costs. To stay abreast of the recent developments in employer needs Mike is an active member of many industry associations, both local and national.  As a result of his passion for total wellness (spirit, mind, and body), Mike’s demand as a motivational speaker has grown in direct proportion to the rapid national expansion of Neace Lukens. To further awareness targeting health quality, Mike is a board member and Past President of the Wellness Council of Indiana and serves on the steering committee of The National Network of Wellness Councils.

The cost for registration for this conference is $80 per person, or $50 per person for groups of three or more.  To obtain full details on this May 22^nd conference, including registration information, simply visit our website at www.neacelukensevents.com.

The Conference on Health and Productivity that Neace Lukens conducts today began ten years ago in Indianapolis and has now spread to municipalities throughout the Neace Lukens footprint.  The Conference began with a conviction that poor quality of lifestyle was the primary factor in driving our healthcare costs, in addition to a number of other negative factors.  Neace Lukens embraces the philosophy that improving the quality of lifestyle will have a reverse impact on all of these challenges.

It is the primary function of The Conference on Health and Productivity to portray this philosophy in a creative and engaging medium.  The Mission of the Neace Lukens Conference is to provide the solutions to the issues faced by the employer’s most valuable asset: the employee.  In doing so, we assemble the best minds in the country and bring these thought leaders together for one day to provide Information, Inspiration, Application and ultimately, Transformation.