Chapter #0271
WICHITA FALLS HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
The April 2019 meeting of the WFHRMA will be:
Wellness in the Workplace
Vernon College Century City Center
Room 606
Speaker: Katie Callender, ACSM, CWWPC
Summary Description:
A healthy workforce is a more productive workforce. When done correctly, wellness programs give employees incentives, tools, social support, privacy, and strategies to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors.
Work sites are doing more to prevent, arrest, and even reverse chronic diseases than any other group. Hospitals are great at treating disease and they are good at early detection of disease, but they don’t do much in the way of disease prevention. The total reach and impact of work site wellness programs dwarfs all other efforts to improve the health of adults.
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Bio: Katie Callender, ACSM, CWWPC
Katie joined Higginbotham in 2012 after working as a personal trainer. She has worked with over 75 clients to support their wellness initiatives through every stage of the process – design, implementation, facilitation, and monitoring. Under Katie’s direction, Higginbotham’s wellness program has received a multitude of awards, including American Heart Association’s Health Achievement & Worksite Innovation Awards, and Healthiest Employers Award from the Dallas, Houston, Austin, & San Antonio Business Journals, WELCOA Well-Workplace, Nation’s Best & Brightest in Wellness, and many of her clients have received similar recognition. Katie also currently serves as the Board Director for the Worksite Wellness Leaders Alliance of DFW
Katie assesses employers’ worksite culture and develops population-specific wellness programs that have a direct impact on their workforce. She develops programs based on specific needs and allocated budget to improve employee morale and retention, boost productivity, decrease absenteeism and workers' compensation claims and ultimately contain cost through healthier employees.
Katie administers the internal wellness program for Higginbotham’s workforce as well as consults with the firm’s employee benefits clients. She has experience managing wellness vendors, program communications, wellness committee meetings, and onsite activities across multiple locations and cities.
Katie holds a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in nutritional sciences with an option in exercise physiology. She is a Certified Health and Fitness Specialist through the American College of Sports Medicine and a Certified Wellness Program Coordinator, Manager, Director, and Consultant through the Chapman Institute.