Virtual event underscores firm’s dedication to employee health & wellbeing
“The pandemic and its associated crises have set off new waves of stress in every profession, including ours,” said Casey Ryan, Reed Smith’s Global Head of Legal Personnel. “These crises also accelerated awareness about the importance of employee mental health and the need for support and services. Our second Mental Health Summit is taking a deep dive into these issues.”
Organized by the firm’s Mental Health Task Force, the event includes presentations and panel discussions on numerous mental health topics, such as:
- There’s more to their mental health: Lesser-considered ramifications of the pandemic and global events: This session examines the lasting mental health impacts of the past two years, including trauma, PTSD, collective loss, grief, isolation, re-entry anxiety and lingering health effects of COVID.
- Psychological capital in the legal industry and other high-stress professions: This session focuses on developing a framework of psychological capital to help lawyers and other professionals perform at the highest levels, while guarding against mental health concerns.
- Corporate responsibility for employee mental health and wellbeing: This session examines the role employers play in reducing the stigma associated with mental health disorders and promoting employee mental health and wellbeing.
Featured presenters and panelists at the Summit include Bert Alicea, Executive Vice President for EAP+ Work/Life Services, Health Advocate; Tamara Box – Managing Partner of Europe & Middle East, Reed Smith; Nita Cumello – Global Client Director and the Director of Well-Being, Global Large Law Firm segment of Thomson Reuters – Legal Professionals; and Stephanie Mitchell Hughes – Lawyer, Board of Trustees for Lawyers Depression Project, Board Member for NAMI Franklin County.
Other presenters and panelists are Martha Knudson – Executive Director, Utah State Bar Well-Being Committee for the Legal Profession; Sabrina Baum Low – General Counsel & Head of People Operations, NOCD; Christine Michaels – CEO, NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania; Melissa Miller – Director of Clinical Care, Calm; Carolyn Pepper – Partner and Co-Chair of the Disability Business Inclusion Group, Reed Smith; Casey Ryan – Partner and Global Head of Legal Personnel, Reed Smith; and Josh Verdi – Associate General Counsel - Labor and Employment, Matthews International.
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