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Conference Coverage: 2025 Healthy Outcomes Conference

Nearly 150 leaders and influencers in the benefits industry gathered at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto on Oct. 21 for the 2025 Healthy Outcomes Conference.

The celebrated event, which is designed for employers to exchange ideas, best practices and tools for achieving employee health outcomes and enhanced organizational performance, featured a range of topics that are currently front of mind for employers.

Among the insightful sessions, delegates learned about using data to support employee well-being and optimize benefits plans, making mental health a priority in disability management, the effects of menopause on women’s well-being and workplace performance and integrating the four health pillars into total rewards.

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Linda Duxbury
Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business

Managing evolution and change in the workplace

“The saying ‘change or die’ has been around forever, but right now, that’s more true than ever.”

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Bill Rowell
Manulife Canada

Tamara Harduwar
Manulife Canada

Using benefits, claims data to find preventative health solutions

When a plan sponsor was seeing musculoskeletal issues come up in disability claims, it wanted to figure out if it could do more to support employees.

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Dr. Andrew Bond
GreenShield

How payor, provider integration can improve plan member health outcomes

Private payors spent a collective $37 billion on health care in 2024 out of a total Canadian health-care spend of $372 billion, with the benefits industry continuing to see unprecedented advancement in technologies such as data analytics and artificial intelligence.

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Laura Pratt
Canada Life

Faye Gagne
Henry Schein Canada

Michelle Belfry
Canada Life

Henry Schein Canada reducing disability leave claims with wellness program

It was 2023 and Henry Schein Canada was ‘late to the wellness party,’ recalled Faye Gagne (pictured centre), the company’s manager of employee relations and wellness.

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Pamela Borges
Insulet Corporation

Andrew Muirhead
Insulet Corporation

Automated insulin pumps changing the game for type one diabetes

Since the only treatment for type one diabetes is insulin, there’s only one option for treating the condition.

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Shawna O’Hearn
Menopause Society of Nova Scotia

The importance of incorporating menopause support into modern workplaces

Among the 21 million Canadians in the workforce, eight million are women over the age of 40.

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Francis Bouliann
Normandin Beaudry

Geneviève Hébert
UAP Inc.

UAP’s wellness strategy improving employees’ mental, financial health

Implementing a wellness strategy during the pandemic helped Montreal-based automotive and heavy parts distributor UAP Inc. boost employee engagement, reduce the stigma around mental health for its predominantly male workforce and improve plan members’ financial well-being.

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Merlyn Sequeira
Samsung Electronics Canada

Emilie Inakazu
KPMG in Canada

Emmanuelle Gaudette
Pratt & Whitney Canada

Plan sponsors want data to tie wellness investments to health outcomes

Plan sponsors have far more access to benefits utilization and organizational health data than in recent years, but challenges persist with fragmentation and consistency across providers, as well as as difficulty turning data into action.

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To view highlights from the 2024 Healthy Outcomes Conference, click here.

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To view highlights from the 2022 Healthy Outcomes Conference, click here.