Leading Your Business Into 2025: Navigating the Economy, Public Policy and Worker Mental Health
September 4, 2024 | 9:00 a.m.-1:45 p.m. MT
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Englewood, CO
Are you ready to lead your organization into 2025? Amid ongoing change, equip yourself with the insights and strategies to lead your business, advise your clients and customers, and take care of your employees in 2025. This half-day educational symposium, open to business, nonprofit and public sector professionals, will explore economic and public policy trends, as well as insights into employee mental health, wellness and workers compensation.
Session 1: Leading Your Organization into 2025: Making Sense of the U.S. Economy and the 2024 Elections
What do higher interest rates, complex labor force dynamics and evolving geopolitical risks mean for your business and your customers? What pressing challenges will Congress and the White House face in 2025? Drawing on her extensive experience as an economist on Capitol Hill and an analyst on Wall Street, Joan Woodward will share her economic, public policy and political outlook in this data-driven, analytical and nonpartisan presentation. Woodward, who currently serves as Executive Vice President for Public Policy at Travelers, will also explore how the 2024 U.S. elections may impact insurance, tax policy and the broader economy.
Session 2: Creating Your Action Plan: Prioritizing Worker Mental Health
What’s your approach to addressing your workers’ mental health? From stress and burnout to substance abuse disorders, this session will address the state of worker mental health and provide a framework for understanding mental health as a continuum. Speakers will share their perspectives on how organizations can proactively work to understand what resources are needed within their organizations to address mental health and how best to connect employees to those resources. They’ll also discuss the latest trends in workers compensation programs and how they fit into the larger picture of employee well-being. Be part of the conversation as we lay the groundwork, get practical and work together to raise awareness and create a plan to address mental health.
Location
The Inverness Denver
200 Inverness Drive West
Englewood, CO 80012
Timeline
9:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
10:00 a.m. Session 1: Leading Your Organization into 2025: Making Sense of the U.S. Economy and the 2024 Elections
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Session 2: Creating Your Action Plan: Prioritizing Worker Mental Health
12:45 p.m. Luncheon
1:45 p.m. Luncheon Concludes
Keynote Address
![Marcos Iglesias](/iw-images/travelers-institute/Headshots/Headshot_Iglesias_Marcos_SQUARE--(Get%20Original).jpg)
Marcos Iglesias, M.D.
Vice President, Chief Medical Director, Travelers
Keynote Address
![Kathryn Mueller headshot](/iw-images/travelers-institute/Headshots/kathryn-mueller-headshot.png)
Kathryn Mueller, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of Colorado; Former Medical Director, Colorado Division of Workers Compensation
Panel
![Marcos Iglesias](/iw-images/travelers-institute/Headshots/Headshot_Iglesias_Marcos_SQUARE--(Get%20Original).jpg)
Marcos Iglesias, M.D.
Vice President, Chief Medical Director, Travelers
![Kathryn Mueller headshot](/iw-images/travelers-institute/Headshots/kathryn-mueller-headshot.png)
Kathryn Mueller, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of Colorado; Former Medical Director, Colorado Division of Workers Compensation
![Rich Ives headshot](/iw-images/travelers-institute/Headshots/rich-ives-headshot.png)
Rich Ives
Senior Vice President, Business Insurance Claim, Travelers
![Dr. Les Kertay headshot](/iw-images/travelers-institute/Headshots/Kertay_Les_Headshot--(Get%20Original).jpg)
Les Kertay, Ph.D, ABPP
Clinical Psychologist; Chief Medical Officer, Ascellus; Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Host
![Joan Woodward headshot](/iw-images/travelers-institute/Headshots/woodward_headshot.jpg)
Joan Woodward
President, Travelers Institute; Executive Vice President, Public Policy, Travelers