Agenda

Marni Edelhart, VP, Content, MOMENTUM EVENTS

Denise Gaskin, President, RAVENWORK

Denise Gaskin, President, RAVENWORK

Heidi Alexander, Director of Lawyer Well-Being, MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT

When we are all together in a physical space, we can see one another’s body language, habits, and self-care in action. Virtual meetings (even when cameras are on) provide a much narrower lens – sometimes a literally filtered one – via which to monitor your employees’ well-being.

This session will provide specific tactics to:

Identify an employee in need of a wellness check-in

Intervention strategies that can be implemented virtually

Cultural practices that ensure everyone knows how to monitor and engage with employees about wellness and mental health as needed.

Dr. Milana Hogan, Chief Legal Talent Officer, SULLIVAN & CROMWELL

It may sound obvious but the most effective employee wellness programs meet the true needs of employees. Therefore wellness committees comprised of a cross-departmental mix of employees can help the HR and/or wellness leaders understand which programs are most in demand and how to offer them in ways that will increase participation and value.

This session provides:

Guidelines for establishing employee wellness committees

Leadership strategies for guiding these committees to make actionable decisions

Best practices for running a committee successfully

Melissa de Carvalho, Global Wellness Manager, GIBSON DUNN
James Kehsavarz, Chief Wellness Officer, GIBSON DUNN

With the reality of hybrid work already upon us, it’s imperative for well-being managers and administrators to effectively reach audiences concurrently working at home and in the office. Seasoned program manager, Katherine Adamenko, will share her thoughtfully developed and beta-tested three-prong approach Expand, Embed and Engage – to create impactful well-being initiatives for the new hybrid workforce.

During this session Katherine will introduce and explain three prongs:

Expand Access

Embed Programming

Engage Effectively

Katherine Adamenko, Manager of Well-Being, ROPES & GRAY

At the core of Momentum’s culture and values is the prioritization of our collective mental health. More than just a passing phrase, our #mentalhealthpledge is used to guide many of our decisions, especially when it comes to talent management, benefits and company culture. This session will outline how we have created an open, empathetic workplace that celebrates emotional health and provide several key takeaways that you can champion at your organization including:

Our experience with a 4 day work week

Pros/Cons of unlimited sick days and vacation days

Creating a tolerant culture for mental health challenges

Prioritizing collaboration over competition

Marni Edelhart, VP, Content, MOMENTUM EVENTS
Ben Greenzweig, CEO, MOMENTUM EVENTS

Your employees have families. Many are parents taxed with the demands of young children while others may have elderly parents or other relatives who need their support and energy. Caring for employee wellness requires acknowledging that your employees have demands outside of their work and reducing their stress about balancing work and family can actually improve performance.

This session provides:

Flexible work options that accommodate working families

The benefits that truly lift a burden from working families

How to incorporate the needs of working families into your return to the office planning

Denise Gaskin, President, RAVENWORK

Marni Edelhart, VP, Content, MOMENTUM EVENTS

Denise Gaskin, President, RAVENWORK

Megan will share several strategies to improve the health, energy, and longevity even despite our busy schedules.

Megan Lyons, Founder/Owner, THE LYON’S SHARE WELLNESS

At many organizations Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives are lumped in with the wellness programs. Often the responsibility for these programs falls under the same leadership. While addressing DEI lapses can improve employee wellness, does it make sense to tie these two realms together?

This session will address:

The pros and cons of conflating DEI with Wellness

How to analyze the wellness burden put on DEI leaders

Ways to ensure all employees feel the benefits of wellness initiatives

Chet Hurwitz, Board Member, VENTURES ATL

Just when you thought caring for employee wellness was complicated with a remote workforce, life got more complicated and now many firms and organizations are operating in a hybrid model. The hybrid model brings the benefits of employees gathering face to face (or at least mask to mask), but also the challenges of determining what mix is the right mix, how to ensure everyone feels safe while in the office, and helping employees to take care of themselves while still hitting deadlines and working productively whether at home or in the office.

This session will Provide:

Questions to ask when setting your return to office standards

Communication techniques that keep your practices grounded as opposed to politicized

Approaches for responding to employee challenges

Patricia Trudeau, VP & Chief Administrative Officer, ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE COUNSEL

One of the priorities that is increasingly demanded by employees from their wellness/HR teams is to provide tools for financial wellness. Sadly, standard education does not include money management so many employees are seeking guidance for how to save and invest in the smartest ways possible.

This session addresses:

The most common financial questions facing legal and professional services employees

Creative and engaging ways to provide guidance for financial wellness

HR/Benefits approaches that simplify smart choices for your employees

Alyona Richey, Director, HR Compensation and Benefits, DYKEMA

During the COVID 19 pandemic your employees faced unpredictable challenges. Some may have lost loved ones, others may have gotten very sick and for many the daily challenges of working from home while homeschooling kids and missing normal social interactions left their own mark. Things are slowly normalizing, but we still have a ways to go and the residual trauma from the pandemic will continue to rear its ugly head in the months to come.

This session will address:

How to identify and respond to post-pandemic stress in your employees

Tools to help reduce the stress of returning to work

The practices that truly relieve trauma and increase engagement

Kara Hardin, Principal, KARA HARDIN MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTING
Mary Jackson, Chief Officer, Professional Resources, BLAKE, CASSELS, & GRAYDON

In the time of “The Great Resignation” the only way to retain your best employees are to align their work with a sense of purpose. No longer will employees continue to show up just for a paycheck, they want more.

This session will provide:

Hiring tactics to ensure your new hires are motivated by the work of your organization

Strategies for tying work to a bigger purpose

Incentivization models to reward employees by investing in their other passions

Denise Gaskin, President, RAVENWORK

Eventually, we all hope to be done talking about COVID 19. When that day comes, what will conversations about employee wellness look like? What are the future trends and challenges? This session will provide insights into the trends who need to track to keep your wellness programs effective.

Catherine Duke, Chief Talent Officer, ROBINSON + COLE
Deb Ndao, Assistant Director of Well-Being, Firm Administration, SKADDEN

Denise Gaskin, President, RAVENWORK