News Update
November 2009
'EXERCISE, PRODUCTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE'
FREE BREAKFAST SEMINAR
Renowned international speaker and exercise guru to the stars, Professor Greg Whyte, will kick off this breakfast seminar looking at the latest evidence on optimising the health of your workforce and will discuss the links with productivity and performance.
Greg's talk will be followed by Simon Shepard CEO of Optima-life who will give a presentation exploring technological advances in the objective evaluation of stresses experienced both at work or in everyday life. He will look at a pro-active approach to dealing with this modern day phenomena.
Date : Wednesday 25th November 2009
Time : 8.00am for 8.30am start until 9.30am
Venue : Central Health Performance + Wellbeing Centre
17 Charterhouse Street
Saffron Hill Entrance
London
EC1N 6RA
Professor Greg Whyte PhD DSc FACSM
Greg is Professor of Applied Sport & Exercise Science at Liverpool John Moores University. While he is widely celebrated in the academic arena, Greg has been much acclaimed for his work with Comic Relief. He has helped a host of stars dare to dream, pushing themselves both physically and mentally to achieve extraordinary endurance feats, including David Walliams, in swimming the Channel, Cheryl Cole, Chris Moyles, Ronan Keating et al climbing Kilimanjaro and more recently Eddie Izzard in completing his round UK marathon challenge.
Simon Shepard
A Chartered Physiotherapist by training, Simon has also worked in professional sport primarily with Middlesex CCC and the MCC. Passionate about improving the health of the nation, Simon was instrumental in developing a unique collaboration between Optima-life and Firstbeat Technologies, one of Finland's leading research and development companies in the field of heartbeat analysis technology for preventative healthcare, lifestyle management and sport.
Who is attending?
Our audience will be a mixture of HR professionals, Leadership and Performance professionals, Occupational Health professionals, Public Sector bodies. Indeed it is designed for anyone aiming to improve performance.
RSVP
If you would like to attend please complete the attached form and email to Maggie McNerney at
maggiemcnerney@optima-life.com or telephone optima-life on 0207 135 2424
WARNING: No liability can be accepted by Optima-life if you depart wishing to climb Everest, swim the Channel, abseil Big Ben or undertake any other extraordinary feat that this seminar might inspire you to tackle.
