**Barbara Fulmer

Corporate Health Strategist/Humorist

 

 

SPEECH TOPICS

Healthy Employees. Healthy Company.

The economic burden of an unhealthy workforce.

 

Healthcare reform is a reality. The country, and your company, is in a health crises that urgently needs attention. Preventable and treatable health problems such as obesity, smoking and behavioral health issues are costing businesses billions of dollars each year in the form of increasing insurance fees and loss of productivity.  And they’re projected to skyrocket! Additionally, recent studies have shown that:

§         Every $1 spent implementing a worksite health program is directly attributable to a company savings of up to $6 in overall healthcare costs

§         Worksite health promotion programs have shown reductions in sick leave, health plan costs, and worker’s compensation and disability costs of more than 25%

§         The cost of obesity at a firm with 1,000 employees is about $285,000 per year   

 

Leading corporate health strategist, Barbara Fulmer, offers a passionate and compelling insiders view of the corporate healthcare landscape. Barbara is insightful and incisive, as well as humorous and motivating, as she challenges her audience to Get Corporate Health.

 

Audience Takeaway:

*Greater awareness of how employee health impacts the bottom line

*The top six employee health issues which, when addressed, yield the greatest return

*Measureable results from other organizations who have implemented successful programs

*An action plan 

Your Corporate Health IQ.

 

More than just a speech, this is a lively and interactive presentation where corporate executives use wireless response pads in an evaluation of their corporate health. Barbara engages the audience with energy and expertise as they participate in a real-time assessment. She facilitates peer-to-peer discussions where leaders pose questions as well as discuss issues, challenges and creative solutions. Team competition can also be incorporated for a high-energy experience. Market intelligence is captured and provided to participants for further review and analysis.

 

 

 

 

About Barbara Fulmer

 

With ease and insight, Barbara Fulmer clarifies the cost of an unhealthy workforce and the solutions available to corporate America. Uniquely qualified as a corporate health strategist, Barbara is actively engaged in the fight for a healthier workforce.

 

 

Corporate Health Strategist : Barbara helps her audience understand the reality of the health and wellness challenges employers face by taking a complex problem and creating a back-to-basics approach. Bringing an insider’s view to the corporate health world, she masterfully offers strategic solutions to specific problems. An informed and thought-provoking presenter, Barbara inspires ‘aha’ moments from even the most seasoned executives.

 

 

Humorist: Fulmerhas extensive experience working in the corporate world. But a very unique adjunct is her study of stand-up comedy and comedy writing.  She has become noted for her humor and wit, as well as her ability to inspire, motivate and challenge the audience. Barbara offers an interactive, highly engaging perspective on corporate health and wellness issues. 

 

 

Corporate Trainer:

Barbara is one of the few individuals licensed by the Tom Peters Group to facilitate his engaging Liberation Management seminar. As the Director of Leadership Training for Toshiba America, Barbara inspired business owners to WOW! Their customers and guide their sales teams to unrivaled success. As a Master Trainer, Barbara applies adult learning principles to each presentation and generates an exceptional level of audience participation.

 

 

Wealth of Experience: Barbara has over 20 years of senior level management experience. Barbara’s company, Get Corporate Health, was the exclusive B2B marketer for Nutrisystem. She was previously the Global Managing Director for Jenny Craig International where she became a sought-after speaker and representative of the company within the healthcare industry. She also had an insider’s view into nearly 300 corporations, making her uniquely qualified to discuss trends and challenges, as well as solutions in health and wellness.

 

Target Audience:

Business Owners/Managers … C-Suite … HR/Benefits … Senior Executives …

Mid-Level Executives … Supervisors … Health Promotion Managers

 

 

 

 

Biography

 

Barbara Fulmer has dedicated the last 20 years to health and wellness as a sales, training and leadership executive within healthcare organizations.

 

Barbara is the founder and president of Get Corporate Health, dedicated to helping employers proactively take control and create programs to not only motivate employees, but drive behavioral change toward healthier lives and a healthier workforce … which results in improving productivity, and the bottom line.

 

As a corporate health strategist for Nutrisystem and former Global Managing Director of Jenny Craig International’s Corporate Wellness Group, Barbara gained entrée into over three hundred Fortune 1000 corporations.  She has had exposure to the costly health issues impacting the American workforce, andseen the challenges from an insider’s perspective. Much insight was gleaned from her clients -- the leading employers and healthcare companies in the country – such as  Walt Disney, Wells Fargo, RiteAid, Humana, Aetna, Cigna, Anthem/Wellpoint, and most  Blue Cross organizations.

 

Previously, Fulmer was Jenny Craig’s National Director of Training, deliveringleadership, sales, management and communication training to over 4000 field staff, while introducing cutting edge training programs and innovative training solutions such as online learning and knowledge management.

 

Before joining Jenny Craig, Barbara founded and ran her own corporate event company, New York based Corporate Games, which pioneered the concept of ‘play’ as a superior medium for learning and exchanging information. The company created customized, spirited interactive ‘game shows’ to inject life into meetings and conferences, as well as extreme challenges for organizations such as OnlineBenefits, Watson Pharmaceutical, Tenet, TransAmerica Life Company, Roche, United Healthcare and Allergan.

 

Previous positions include National Director of Leadership Training for Toshiba America, where Barbara designed, developed and facilitated leadership-training seminars. At the same time, she was one of a select few certified to teach Tom Peters Liberation Management.

 

One of the things that makes Barbara that much more compelling, engaging, and downright entertaining is the fact that she spent years studying comedy and comedy writing with Improv Comedy Club alumni. This has resulted in her ability to truly connect with her audience … to reach people and convey new information in a way that they can grasp, remember, and quickly apply.

 

In 2008, Barbara was featured in Fortune, Time Magazine and the New York Times. She is an active member of National Business Group on Health based in Washington DC, World Congress on Health and Human Capital, SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management), World Congress on Obesity, Integrated Benefits Institute and the Health Institute for Productivity Management.**  

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