Eric Parmenter
CLU, ChFC, RHU, REBC, LUTCF, SPHR, CEBS,
TN, USEric Parmenter is established as a national expert on the impact of healthcare reform on healthcare providers and is a respected thought leader in the hospital health system industry. A consultant with deep experience in behavioral economics, behavioral science, health plan strategy, design, prevention care, and productivity, Eric serves as the Market President for Tennessee and Leads the Employer Solutions Team for Evolent Health. A former principal with Towers Watson, he has worked in the employee benefits business for 30-plus years as an advisor to hospital and health system clients, developing health benefit and prevention care strategies that align with the health system's population health business. Eric focuses on improving the poor health of healthcare workers and professionals as a first step to improving patient satisfaction and quality outcomes. He frequently speaks about the direct link between improving healthcare workers' health and boosting patient satisfaction and quality outcomes.
Eric is a published author including the book STOP: 21 STOPs to Reduce Stress and Enhance Joy and has authored more than 20 articles on employee benefit topics including "Healthcare Benefit Crisis—Ten Years Later" in 2015, "Choice Architecture—a Tool for Ratcheting up Benefit and Wellness Results," "eACOs—The Health Plan of the Future," and "Healthcare Benefit Crisis." A member of several "Who's Who" lists for business executives, Eric graduated from the University of Illinois with a BA in Psychology and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Eric lives in Franklin, TN, with his wife Sherry and enjoys travel related to history, architecture, and baseball. Together, Eric and Sherry have seven children and five grandsons and two more grandchildren on the way. He has been a volunteer docent for the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
Eric Parmenter is established as a national expert on the impact of healthcare reform on healthcare providers and is a respected thought leader in the hospital health system industry. A consultant with deep experience in behavioral economics, behavioral science, health plan strategy, design, prevention care, and productivity, Eric serves as the Market President for Tennessee and Leads the Employer Solutions Team for Evolent Health. A former principal with Towers Watson, he has worked in the employee benefits business for 30-plus years as an advisor to hospital and health system clients, developing health benefit and prevention care strategies that align with the health system's population health business. Eric focuses on improving the poor health of healthcare workers and professionals as a first step to improving patient satisfaction and quality outcomes. He frequently speaks about the direct link between improving healthcare workers' health and boosting patient satisfaction and quality outcomes.
Eric is a published author including the book STOP: 21 STOPs to Reduce Stress and Enhance Joy and has authored more than 20 articles on employee benefit topics including "Healthcare Benefit Crisis—Ten Years Later" in 2015, "Choice Architecture—a Tool for Ratcheting up Benefit and Wellness Results," "eACOs—The Health Plan of the Future," and "Healthcare Benefit Crisis." A member of several "Who's Who" lists for business executives, Eric graduated from the University of Illinois with a BA in Psychology and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Eric lives in Franklin, TN, with his wife Sherry and enjoys travel related to history, architecture, and baseball. Together, Eric and Sherry have seven children and five grandsons and two more grandchildren on the way. He has been a volunteer docent for the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
STOP! 21 STOPs to Reduce Stress and Enhance Joy
Eric will show the audience how the fields of behavioral science, behavioral economics, neuroscience and positive psychology offer insights into reducing stress, enhancing joy and removing barriers from our lives that hold us back from...
Successful Companies Accomplish More by Encouraging Employees to Doing Less
Based on Eric Parmenter's book of the same name, STOP! 21 STOPs to Reduce Stress and Enhance Joy will provide the audience with heart-warming and funny personal stories that illustrate how we can accomplish more by doing less.
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Healthcare 3.0
As the industry transforms, what are the critical success factors for healthcare professionals to understand the new world and to personally manage their own health?...
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World-renowned business educator and coach and Thinkers50 winner
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M.G.P., New York Times best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There and Triggers, World-renowned business educator and coach and Thinkers50 winner
Verified @MarshallGoldsmith.com"Eric Parmenter's generous and wise guidance will show you how to remove the deadwood and make room for new life to grow!"
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business
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A.G.P., Tenured Professor, Best Selling Author of Originals and Give and Take, Thinkers50 winner, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business
"All too often, we seek happiness by adding new actions to our calendars when we should be subtracting them. STOP! looks at our frantic lives with fresh eyes, offering guidance to help us focus on our top priorities."
University of Michigan, Partner the RBL Group
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D.U.P., Renis Likert Professor School of Business and Best Selling Author, Thinkers50 winner, University of Michigan, Partner the RBL Group
"STOP! is about what to START to gain control of your life and find well-being. Pragmatic, well written, and real . . . a wonderful reminder and guide for life's real challenges."
Evolent Health
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F.W., CEO, Evolent Health
Verified @evolenthealth.com"Eric Parmenter's talk STOP! is really about how individuals and organizations can perform at their best. Eric's storytelling brings the concepts of our Corporate Performance Athlete initiative to life and teaches the importance of defining and focusing on our top priorities to achieve breakthrough performance."
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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M.G.P., Clinical Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Verified @chicagobooth.edu"Life has become a twenty-four-hour onslaught of e-mail, text, Twitter— in both our private and work lives. There seems to be no break from the stress! Eric Parmenter's talk is a welcome reminder to us all that we can, and should, step back from all of this and regain our control. It also gives useful ideas not just about what to STOP! but what to start instead."
Indianapolis Veterin's Affairs Hospital
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G.H.P.M., Author of Leadership Insight, Indianapolis Veterin's Affairs Hospital
Verified @gmail.com"In an age of go, go, go; where more is lionized and 'yes' is the norm, Eric Parmenter says, 'Enough!' STOP! challenges our basic assumptions regarding the inherent value of activity. It's an engaging and inspiring call to discover joy, well-being, and purpose by learning to say 'no.' STOP! is a must-hear talk for anyone seeking greater productivity and better performance through the paradoxical pursuit of less."
Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame
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R.D.E.Z., Associate Professor, Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame
Verified @nd.edu"Eric Parmenter provides an erudite and insightful talk on the key elements that bog down so many of us. His ability to focus on these specifics gives hope to anyone who has battled the stressful time-crunch of modern life. The cogency of his presentation delights the reader. His cheerful tone warmly invites you to a better life."
Well Works Publishing
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R.G.E., CEO, Well Works Publishing and Consulting, Author of Workplace Wellness: Performance with a Purpose, Well Works Publishing
Verified @aol.com"Eric Parmenter's unique style of interconnecting a historical perspective with current psychological research and personal experiences is meaningful, informative, and inspiring. STOP! is a great work with simplistic clarity to change negative behaviors and learn how to appreciate a healthy and thriving lifestyle for self and others."
American University
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A.R.M., Adjunct Professor of Strategies in Stress Management, American University
Verified @american.edu"Every college freshman needs to read this book their first semester. STOP! is the best book they will read during their college career. I've put it on my required booklist for my Strategies in Stress Management course."
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