Category: Health/Wellness

The ability to uncover, and therefore manage, health concerns for corporate leaders requires the right type of program. To truly mitigate the risks associated with executive health issues, a comprehensive, proactive approach, such as executive physicals, is needed.

Companies rely on their best and brightest to build shareholder value, create company growth, drive corporate culture and inspire the vision for the future. They develop comprehensive compensation packages to ensure they retain these key performers and protect them from competitor poaching. But the reality is, you need to do more.

Should CEO pay ever be influenced by staffs’ mental wellbeing? At least one prominent political personality in Australia thinks it should be, and he’s won the backing of the country’s chief lobby group for business leaders.

Every enterprise has select individuals who are ultimately responsible for building shareholder value, company growth, corporate culture and the vision for the future. If anything happened to them, how difficult would they be to replace?

The latest suicide of a top executive—in this case, that of former Zurich Insurance CEO Martin Senn—begs the question of how leaders can better grapple with the stress and loneliness at the top that comes with their position.

As the founder and CEO of two successful companies before the age of 30, my learning curve was nothing but steep. I started Dane PCG, a NYC based affordable housing brokerage, in 2008 and by 2013 founded Saxon/Hart, an event production firm that focuses on causes to create a social impact. But despite the continued success of both my companies, I found myself struggling under their weight. I wanted to be able to say you can do it all, but it just wasn’t proving true.

Spring is here, and spring training for athletes is in session. While you’re not an athlete—at least, not a professional one—there’s no better time than now for you to engage in a little spring training of your own with an annual physical exam.

How should companies cope with a leader’s health crisis?

Sometimes, CEOs just need to get away from it all—take a real break from the meetings, decisions, annoyances and confrontations that it takes to run a company. They benefit by ending  up refreshed and thinking more clearly. Whether it’s for five minutes or two weeks, company chiefs have come up with a variety of ways to do it, but their varied methods all amount to the same goal: going incommunicado.