A remote coworker who repeatedly calls in sick now logs on early to team conversations, camera on, ready to engage. The weekly staff meeting, where participants barely conceal their eye rolls, transforms into lively and meaningful discussions leading to company innovations. A junior employee, sitting in the back of the room and feeling invisible, now pulls up her chair to the table and speaks up as a valued team member. How do leaders heal unhealthy, toxic
workplaces when burnout, cynicism, and incivility fester? What if the most overlooked driver of workplace performance isn’t a new high-tech platform or revamped policy, but simple human kindness? Drawing on the groundbreaking science behind The Rabbit Effect, physician and public health expert Dr. Kelli Harding offers an ancient prescription for addressing modern workplace ills. Examining work through a biological and neuroscientific lens, Dr. Harding explains the risks of isolation and loneliness and how connection and belonging can lower stress hormones, strengthen immunity, reduce burnout, and boost productivity. These “hidden” factors of health (or the “social determinants” of health) contribute to wellbeing beyond the workplace and can even rewire the brain for long-term success. This session explores how
kindness is more than a moral virtue - it’s a powerful, cost-effective, evidence-based tool to improve human health and workplace performance. It’s a strategy that every leader can use to build a workplace culture where people - and productivity - flourish.
Sponsored by Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive Category I continuing education contact hours. Provider ID#101039
