In this episode, Lorien Norden is joined by Dr Charushilla Thadani, Medical Director, Aetna International, who explains:What the future holds for health care trends, medical cost drivers and employee experience across the rest of 2022 and beyondHow organisations can apply this knowledge to support the holistic health and well-being of their people.Start discovering the trends at play. Find out which ones could impact your health and well-being benefits, your communications strategy and your cultural strategy.Aetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up. Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com. Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

Getting the right people into the right roles in the right location is much trickier than it used to be. The values, needs and expectations of talent are changing rapidly and there are new working models, policies and governance frameworks that organisations need to continue to develop to so they can make fast, agile decisions. Our guests discuss the shift required by leadership to support, develop and get the best out of team members. Lorien Norden is joined by Marc Burrows, Head of Global Mobility Services, KPMG and David Tyers, Senior Director, Brand & Marketing, Aetna International.Aetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up.Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com.Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

In this special Memo episode, we’re looking back over the first half of 2021 to bring you a round-up of some of the most insightful expert opinions from our recent podcast episodes. These excerpts shed light on some of the most notable trends and influences that will continue to shape employee health and well-being and corporate culture in the coming months and years. This includes shifts in attitudes towards health care tech, self-care, the influence of social connectedness on our health and changes to duty of care, corporate culture and business leadership. Guests on this episode include: Dr Hemal Desai, Global Medical Director, Aetna International Simon Miller, Senior Director of Customer Proposition, Aetna International Smriti Joshi, Lead Psychologist, Wysa Cara McNulty, Head of Behavioural Health, CVS Jesse Lahey, workplace health consultant, podcaster and author Nicolai Tillish, Executive Leadership Coach and author. Aetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up.Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com.Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

In this episode, Lorien Norden concludes a two-part discussion with Bradley Honnor, Founder & Managing Director, MatchFit and Adele McKenzie-Smith, Senior HR Leader, Aetna International about the way in which organisations are having to adapt their culture, policies and benefits to ensure they’re retaining and attracting talent in a continued period of change.Click below to listen to the first part of this conversation:Fit For Duty #15: The ‘War for Talent’ - Part OneAetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up.Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com.Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

There’s no denying that today, organisations need to have a distinct competitive advantage when it comes to retaining and attracting talent. Not only do business owners, senior leaders and HR teams need to manage the nuances of the new hybrid work environment, but workers are also putting them under pressure. They expect their employers to live and breathe their purpose, develop collaborative, diverse, inclusive cultures, leverage new technologies and help their people manage their health, well-being and career development.This episode is the first of a two-part conversation with Bradley Honnor, Founder & Managing Director, MatchFit and Adele McKenzie-Smith, Senior HR Leader, Aetna International about the ways in which organisations are having to adapt their strategies to ensure they’re on the winning side in today’s war for talent.Aetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up.Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com.Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

In this episode, Lorien Norden is joined by workplace health consultant, adviser and author Jesse Lahey and Aetna International’s Global Medical Director, vHealth, Dr Nairah Rasul-Syed to discuss comorbidity. The interplay between conditions is undeniable, but often not front-of-mind when trying to help individuals. Our guests explain how various conditions affect each other, how mental health can damage physical health and vice versa and why whole-person health is essential when tackling conditions.Aetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up.Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com.Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

Coach and author Nicolai Tillisch joins Lorien Norden to discuss the changing role of HR. The episode examines how HR teams need to (and can) adapt to ongoing changes to workplaces – accelerated by the pandemic: distributed and hybrid teams, financial uncertainty, mental health challenges and employee demand. Nicolai outlines his Return On Ambition model of career development, personal growth, work-life-well-being balance to help HR teams as they support their people.Aetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up.Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com.Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

Smriti Joshi, Lead Psychologist at Wysa and Cara McNulty, Head of Behavioural Health at CVS join Lorien Norden to discuss supporting the spectrum of mental health needs in the workplace.It’s just over a year on from the onset of the pandemic, and the world over has seen a rise of short- and long-term mental health conditions. How are organisations continuing to adapt their culture and strategies to help those with signs of low lying mental ill health, such as stress and sleep disturbances, as well as those in crisis with anxiety and depression? What promise does the future hold for providing effective, evidence-based psychosocial and mental health and well-being support? And how can organisations help their people achieve whole-person health and the balance and productivity that comes with it?Aetna International is a global health and wellness benefits provider, but we're more than just an insurance safety net. Our skill lies in delivering the tools, services and resources that help drive health care costs down and people's health and well-being up.Ultimately, we believe that when people thrive, their work and their personal endeavours strive as well. For more information about us, you can visit Aetnainternational.com.Check out more episodes of Fit For Duty: https://www.aetnainternational.com/en/about-us/explore/fit-for-duty-corporate-wellness/podcast.html. 

Macroeconomics expert, Professor Graeme Leach discusses how the pandemic could continue to impact global economies and productivity, change consumer habits and accelerate innovation. As CEO of Macronomics - a macroeconomic, geopolitical and future megatrends research consultancy and author of the report Coronanomics – he addresses the positive and negative shocks of the pandemic. Graeme also covers the forces shaping the health care industry, inflation rates, manufacturing, global mobility, expat communities and international talent pools. 

Lorien Norden discusses workplace health and wellness trends with Dr Hemal Desai and Simon Miller. How can employers pivot to create a culture of well-being in today’s fluid world to ensure the health, happiness and productivity of their people wherever they’re working from? Our experts offer their opinions, insights and advice.