Our Origins

Organization & Staffing

Management Brief

The Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) is a global non-profit enterprise created in 1997 to establish the full value of employee health as an investment in workplace productivity and business performance.  The Institute champions the idea of health as human capital -- and the greatest untapped source of competitive advantage in a global marketplace.

  

Employers' concept of health value previously was limited mostly to the outcomes of medical care delivered to their employees who were sick.  A larger concept of value looks beyond getting sick people well or even back to work, and expands the definition of value to include better employee performance on the job -- or increased productivity.

Health promotion and care delivery models that can improve functional health and positively impact total labor costs -- rather than just health care costs -- get employers to a new “bottom line” that makes health an asset rather than an expense.  The Institute is working with employers, providers and governments globally to help build, manage and measure these models.

IHPM pursues its mission around the world through conferences, seminar-style Academies, print and electronic publications that include a magazine and a peer-reviewed Journal, and demonstration projects with real employers to prove the business case for investing in workplace health by actually measuring its impact on productivity.  The Institute now is active in China, Australia and New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico and Europe as well as the U.S.

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The Institute has been incorporated as a not-for-profit entity and has been granted a 501C-3 status. The board of directors consists of Sean Sullivan, the Institute's President & CEO (former President & CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health) ; W.C. ("Bill") Williams III, MD, Senior Vice-President and CFO (also Sr. VP of the National Association of Managed Care Physicians); and Deborah Love, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. An Advisory Council of the organizations that fund the Institute is supplemented by a Business Leadership Council, drawn from national companies, Provider Advisory Committee, Health Plan/Insurer Advisory Committee, Consultant Advisory Committee, and Consumer Advisory Committee. Other members of the IHPM Team include -- Rick Nevins, MD, Chief Clinical Officer; Bonnie Jean Baker, Executive Director, Member Services;  Steve Priddy, Executive Director, Employer Relations, Value-Based Health (VBH) Initiative ; Jack Bastable, Director, Education, VBH; Frank Lederer, Publisher; and Joseph Leutzinger, PhD, President, Academy for Health and Productivity Management (AHPM).