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2016 Top Health Promotion Professionals

The Top 10 Professionals Are Announced

Announcing the 2016 Top 10 Health Promotion Professionals.

WELCOA will announce the #1 professional in the coming weeks. To learn more about the Top 10, check out the link below.

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And the Winners are...

1st Place Winner

Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

Nominee: Lynise Anderson

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First place winner

Lynise Anderson

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Creating Opportunities to Make Wellness Ac...

Nominee: Jeff Skelton

For Jeff Skelton, what started as a summer job selling gym memberships quickly became a lifelong passion for helping people achieve their health and wellness goals. Since 1998, Jeff has been workin...

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Finding Innovative Ways to Make Wellness Fun

Nominee: Iris Tarou

Iris Tarou always enjoyed fitness and healthy living, but it was initially a hobby while she started a career in television journalism. After deciding TV news wasn’t the right fit for her, Iris pur...

profile photo Posted on 11/23/2016 by Brendan H.

Hospital room > Classroom > Boardroom: Evo...

Nominee: Lance Breger

Lance Breger had it all…or he thought! Not only was he a full-time head personal trainer, but also simultaneously running two startup wellness businesses. The ‘it’ Lance thought he had was his heal...

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LISTEN, LEARN, CARE, RESPOND

Nominee: Craig Schmidt

EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants Senior Wellness Consultant Employee Benefits 10 Years 800+

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Creating a healthier society

Nominee: Vicki Caisley

Southern Cross Health Society is New Zealand’s leading health insurer with a mission to create a healthier society. We are not-for-profit and have over 820,000 members, which accounts for 71% of th...

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Being the Conduit of Change- Encouraging O...

Nominee: Ayana Collins

Ayana Collins is a Wellness Consultant at EPIC Insurance Brokers, a benefits and property and casualty consulting company with close to 800 employees. She has over 12 years of experience in the he...

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Stepping Beyond Medical And Moving To Huma...

Nominee: Teri Palmer

Teri joined PayneWest Insurance—a top-10 nationally ranked insurance agency—as its first ever Health Management Consultant in August 2011 to partner with employer groups to develop health managemen...

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Behaviors Matter: From Workplace Education...

Nominee: Erin Milliken

Wellness became a major part of my life in 2001, when doctors diagnosed my father with type II diabetes. Initially, I helplessly watched him suffer with daily insulin injections to manage his condi...

profile photo Posted on 11/28/2016 by Rani B.

Helping people create healthier lives and ...

Nominee: Rani Brar

Rani currently serves as Health Plan and Wellness Manager at Duke Realty, one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate companies. Through Rani’s 9 years with Duke Realty she has participated...

profile photo Posted on 11/28/2016 by Kelly H.

Inspiring Nashville to become a "Wellbeing...

Nominee: Kelly Holt

Paradigm Group Wellbeing Strategy Consultant Benefits Consulting 7 years wellbeing experience 2-3,000 Paradigm Group, a benefits consulting firm, saw the need for a role committed to meeting...