Fit For Duty

Todd Lazar, President of Aetna International Americas, discusses the differentiators that set Aetna International apart in the marketplace. Listen to hear how our one-carrier solution can deliver a better experience for your clients and their employees.

It’s that time of year again when we ask Aetna’s health care experts to provide a view on emerging or persisting health care trends for the year ahead.    

Today, we’re speaking to Seeta Hammer, Senior Director, Clinical Health Services at Aetna International. Find out what 2023 has in store as far as healthcare trends are concerned and how organizations can use this insight to support the well-being of their people and manage their corporate healthcare costs. 

We’ll also be diving into the investments that Aetna International is making into solutions to improve the health and wellness experiences of the people it serves.

As the war for talent rumbles on, organisations are now facing quiet quitting, disengaged, younger workforces and the rise of quiet firing. And when you layer in the international component, be it globally mobile personnel, overseas offices, or work-from-anywhere teams, it seems that organisations must rethink the management of far-flung teams and the propagation of healthy, people-first values and cultures. 

In this episode, Lorien Norden is joined by Lorna Borenstein, Founder & CEO of corporate wellbeing platform Grokker to discuss on-demand health engagement solutions for individuals and corporates.

While in some areas of the world, mental health conditions such as stress, anxiety or depression are widely spoken about, in other areas they are still misunderstood and could be sidelined or ridiculed.

In this episode, Lorien Norden is joined by Nicole van Valen, a Clinical Psychotherapist and Senior Business Leader with Aetna, a CVS Health company to discuss:

- The ways in which businesses with international workers can help ensure their teams and their people get the support they need for their holistic well-being

- How they can make sure they’re taking an inclusive, proactive approach to mental health and not just paying the topic lip service.

- How to find the right balance when it comes to diversity and inclusion whilst operating under the different cultural standards of a country of residence in which their individuals, their employees might be living, and what can be done to support staff based in countries where mental health is not widely supported or not easily available?

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 beyond
• How 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 thrive 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 thrive 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 One

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 thrive 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. 

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 thrive 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 thrive 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.