Opening Plenary Session
Daniel Pink, JDBest-selling Author
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 3:45-5:15 p.m.
Transform the way you view incentives, engagement and motivation with a sneak peak of Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us. (click play button, left, to view video)
"Fascinating…If Pink's proselytizing helps persuade employers to make work more fulfilling, Drive will be a powerhouse."
—USA Today
"Persuasive…Harnessing the power of intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic remuneration can be thoroughly satisfying and infinitely more rewarding."
—Miami Herald
"These lessons are worth repeating, and if more companies feel emboldened to follow Mr. Pink's advice, then so much the better."
—Wall Street Journal |
Mr. Pink is the author of four provocative, bestselling books on the changing world of work. In his latest book, "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us," he shows us that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by ourselves and our world. Based on 40 years of scientific data supporting his argument that people need intrinsic rather than external motivation, Pink's work revolutionizes the way that we look at performance and motivation.
Mr. Pink's articles on business and technology appear in many publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR and other networks in the United States and abroad. A free agent himself, Mr.Pink held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in other positions in politics and government. He received a bachelor's, with honors, from Northwestern University and a doctorate from Yale Law School.
Plenary SessionThursday, Oct. 14, 9:30-11 a.m.
Thomas Valuck, MD, MHSA, JD
Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
National Quality Forum
Dr. Valuck leads NQF work to promote uses of performance measurement information for public reporting, payment incentives, accreditation and certification, workforce education and systems improvement. He oversees NQF's convening of the National Priorities Partnership and support for the Partnership's action plans to improve health and health care. Dr. Valuck also oversees NQF's convening of the Measure Prioritization Advisory Committee, which is charged with constructing an agenda for performance measure development and endorsement to identify and address high-priority measurement gaps.
Dr. Valuck comes to NQF from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he advised senior agency and Department of Health and Human Services leadership regarding Medicare payment and quality of care, particularly pay for performance. While at CMS, Dr. Valuck received recognition for leadership in advancing Medicare's pay-for-performance initiatives, including the 2009 Administrator's Citation and the 2007 Administrator's Achievement Award. He also has worked for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow; for the White House Council of Economic Advisers, researching and analyzing public and private health care financing issues; and at the law firm of Latham & Watkins as an associate practicing regulatory health law. He holds degrees in biological science and medicine from the University of Missouri-Kansas City; a master's in health services administration from the University of Kansas; and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law School.
Plenary SessionThursday, Oct. 14, 4:30-5:45 p.m.
- Why attend? Join the nation's leading benefits consultants as they share key insights into integrated care management services for employers and purchasers.
- Analyze how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—the health care reform law—will affect employer-sponsored wellness programs and financial decisions.
- Examine whether health reform will contain health care costs, encourage more healthful lifestyles and achieve key workforce management goals, such as improving productivity.
- Discover the best new strategies for engaging workers in health and wellness programs.
David Becker, JD, MBA
President & Chief Operating Officer
Cottingham and Butler
Mr. Becker is president and COO of the 47th largest broker in the United States, with more than 3,000 clients in 47 states. A privately held firm headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa, Cottingham & Butler offers a variety of employee benefit and risk-management services, including property and casualty insurance, casualty claims administration, captive development and management, safety and loss-control consulting, employee-benefits brokerage and consulting, benefit claims administration, medical management services and health and wellness services. Before joining Cottingham & Butler, Mr. Becker was a partner at McKinsey & Company, a leading global management consulting firm, where he served Fortune 500 companies in the retail and hospitality industries on issues related to strategy and marketing. He also worked at IBM in sales and marketing for four years. Mr. Becker serves on Washington University's Olin School of Business National Council and on the Board of Directors for the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers.
Mr. Becker has a bachelor's and master's from Washington University in St. Louis, both magna cum laude. In May 2007, Mr. Becker was awarded the Distinguished Alumni award from Washington University. He also holds a doctorate from the Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Paul R. Berger, MD
Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President
Aon Consulting
With more than 30 years experience in the health care industry, Dr. Berger plays a vital role in overseeing the company's clinical competencies and enhancing the depth of Aon's capabilities around clinical and strategic health care consulting. Before joining Aon, Dr. Berger was chief medical officer of SHPS, where he oversaw development and implementation of all clinical programs, including utilization management, case management, disease management, nurseline, wellness and disability management. He also was a World Wide Partner in the health and benefits practice and national leader of the health and productivity management practice at Mercer Human Resource Consulting. During his 15 years with Mercer, Dr. Berger consulted with managed care programs on behalf of Fortune 500 companies interested in utilization review, case management and disease management. His emphasis has been on the evaluation of clinical quality management, all aspects of medical management and predictive modeling.
Dr. Berger received his bachelor's from Duke University and doctorate from Columbia University. He served as a medical intern, resident and chief resident at the University of New Mexico Affiliated Hospitals.
Harlan Levine, MD
Principal
Towers Watson
Dr. Levine began his disease-management career at Salick Health Care's technology and disease management subsidiary, Logic Health Systems, for which he served as its president and CEO. Recently, he served as OptumHealth Care Solution's chief medical officer and now is a principal for Towers Watson, a global professional services firm.
Currently, he is the only benefits consultant to have experience on the buy and sell side of disease management on a national basis. Through his previous role at OptumHealth, he helped UnitedHealth Group become the only national health plan to receive DMPC certification for savings measurement validity, and one of just four to be honored by HIRC for overall program excellence in 2008—the only benefits consultant to have taken an organization through both processes successfully. Dr. Levine is a graduate of Harvard College, where he earned a bachelor's in biology, and of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He is a member of the DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance's Board of Directors.
Seth Serxner, MPH, PhD
Partner & Senior Consultant, Total Health Management
Mercer Inc.
Dr. Serxner serves as the West half of the United States Total Health Management (THM) leader and as a national expert on behavior change, program design, measurement and evaluation. In his more than 25 years of experience in health and productivity management, he was the vice president of research at StayWell, with responsibility for directing StayWell's research programs, which included outcome studies, assessments of member/patient comprehension and satisfaction, market surveys and focus groups. He established the industry-leading market research program for the development and marketing of consumer health materials and programs and published outcomes research in areas of health and productivity management.
Dr. Serxner earned a master's from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine. He has held academic positions with the University of Hawaii Medical School, the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and the University of California, Irvine. He is a board member, executive committee member and vice president of the C. Everett Koop Health Project; on the editorial review board of the American Journal of Health Promotion; and special editions editor, as well as a reviewer, for the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
