Shape Up The Nation To Host “Social Networking For Wellness” Webinar For Self-Insured Employers

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shape Up The Nation, the leading provider of social networking-powered online corporate wellness solutions, will host a webinar for self-insured employers titled “How Social Networking Can Help You Achieve Your Wellness Objectives” on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 2PM ET.

“We invite employers with existing wellness programs to join our webinar and learn how they can utilize social networking concepts to achieve their company’s strategic wellness goals.”

The webinar will be hosted by Rajiv Kumar, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Shape Up The Nation, who created the company in 2006 while he was a first-year medical student at Brown University. The webinar will focus specifically on how social networking strategies can be used by large, self-insured employers to increase the success of their existing wellness programs. Covering topics such as group behavior change models, game mechanics, and the spread of health behaviors within social networks, this webinar will help employers understand how they can maximize employee engagement, promote sustainable behavior change, reduce health care costs, and transform their company culture.

“Employers are frequently hearing about social networking, but many are struggling to understand what it means for their business,” said Rajiv Kumar. “We invite employers with existing wellness programs to join our webinar and learn how they can utilize social networking concepts to achieve their company’s strategic wellness goals.”

Self-insured employers who want to learn more about social approaches to employee behavior change can register online at www.shapeupthenation.com/webinar. The webinar is limited to the first twenty-five employers who sign up. This is the first in a series of upcoming Shape Up The Nation webinars that will address the needs of self-insured employer and health plan wellness programs and share the latest innovations in the wellness industry.

About Shape Up The Nation

Shape Up The Nation is the first corporate wellness company focused on leveraging the power of trusted social networks to promote healthy living. Founded in 2006, Shape Up The Nation has pioneered an innovative approach to behavior change that uses social networking to reduce health care costs and improve the health of large populations through peer motivation, support, and accountability. Shape Up The Nation’s evidence-based online social engagement platform is used by more than 125 leading self-insured employers and health plans, representing over one million covered lives. For more information, visit www.shapeupthenation.com.