New Wellness Consultant Named June 5th, 2007
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Minneapolis, June 5, 2007 - Rosie Ward joins RJF Agencies as Wellness Consultant
RJF Agencies today announced the hiring of Rosie Ward as its new Wellness Consultant. Ward will help organizations establish and align their health and wellness objectives to create corporate environments that support employee wellness to manage and reduce health care costs.
Prior to joining RJF, Ward spent over three years creating and implementing an award-winning Website and health promotion program called HealthyU Your Pathway to Wellness for NSMorthwestern Health Sciences University. In addition, she also taught chiropractic doctors the fundamentals of worksite health promotion and lectured on nutrition, body fat analysis protocol and coaching. For the past seven years, Ward developed and presented national continuing education workshops for fitness professionals.
RJF Chief Executive Officer Bill Jeatran said, "Rosie brings a fresh outlook to RJF on how to coach clients to commit to wellness on a whole. Her diverse background and training in health and wellness will be an asset to our clients as well as our own employees."
"Traditionally, health and wellness have been viewed through a narrow scope," Ward said. "My diverse background and training as a coach allows me the ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization and truly engage them to move forward - both on a strategic and a tactical level. An individual's healthy lifestyle is only part of the equation. Shifting an entire culture requires working with all functions of an organization to create an environment that supports wellness."
About RJF Agencies, Inc.
RJF Agencies is the 57th largest private agency in the United States. Its values-driven approach facilitates growth and strengthens companies using comprehensive programs that reduce the cost of risk for more than 5,000 corporate clients serviced from five offices in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Its process includes employee benefits, commercial insurance, alternative risk programs, loss prevention, claim management, human resource consulting, wellness management and financial services. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal named it as one of the fastest growing private companies in Minnesota six times in the past eight years and a Great Place to Work in 2005 and 2006. The TwinWest Chamber of Commerce named CEO Bill Jeatran its Entrepreneur of the Year for 2006.