News Release
For Immediate Release
INFOTECH FOUNDER, ZORIANNA HYWORON, WINS 2010 CANADIAN WORKPLACE WELLNESS PIONEER AWARD
Award to be presented at Health Work & Wellness™ Conference 2010 in Vancouver, October 1
August 10, 2010
VANCOUVER: Zorianna Hyworon, the founder, President and CEO of InfoTech Inc., the Winnipeg-based creator of global health risk assessment software Wellness Checkpoint®, has been named the recipie
nt of the Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award for 2010.
The award, presented annually since 1997 at the Health Work & Wellness™ Conference, recognizes an individual who has made a pioneering contribution to the field of organizational health.
Health Work & Wellness™ Conference President and founder, Deborah Connors, said today that Ms. Hyworon has made a major contribution to the development and implementation of healthy businesses in Canada and globally.
“Zorianna’s vision over 20 years ago of an online health risk assessment with the potential to engage an individual privately and respectfully became a reality with the launch of Wellness Checkpoint® in 1990. Its success is evidenced by the fact that it is now used by 55 of the Global Fortune 500 companies, in more than 85 countries in 17 languages. That’s a truly remarkable contribution to organizational wellness on a global scale and is thoroughly deserving of the Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award,” said Ms. Connors.
As President and CEO of InfoTech, Ms. Hyworon has supported multinational corporations, employers, health plans and health professionals in assessing risk, supporting change and evaluating opportunities for action.
Commenting on the announcement that she will receive this year’s Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award, Ms. Hyworon said, “I am honoured to receive this award and humbled to be in the company of its prestigious roster of past winners. Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s leading experts in corporate wellness and have gained invaluable knowledge from those relationships. I have taken great satisfaction in seeing how Wellness Checkpoint has helped to contribute to a shift in thinking in the business world towards the importance of employee wellness as integral to a company’s bottom line. This shift continues to grow as evidenced by the success of conferences like HWW and the calibre of sessions and speakers they are able to offer.”
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About the Health Work & Wellness™ Conference
The Health Work & Wellness™ Conference is Canada’s leading forum on building healthy businesses, and brings together the organizational health community in Canada with guests from around the world. The conference is for leaders at all levels who want to create healthy change for better performance. The theme for conference 2010 in Vancouver from September 29 to October 2 is “Thinking Organizations…SUCCEED.” Better thinking leads to better actions and better results. Thinking is the power that drives workplace culture, health and performance. At Conference 2010, we will tap into and give life to big ideas. Website: www.healthworkandwellness.com
About InfoTech
Wellness Checkpoint® created by InfoTech, Inc. is an online, interactive, global and multilingual health risk assessment (HRA) with comprehensive reporting abilities to help you track and improve your organization’s overall health status. It is the comprehensive Business Risk Management tool you need to measure, track and manage the health of the whole person, within the context of their job, that job within your organization, and their life outside of work. For more information, please visit www.wellnesscheckpoint.com
For more information, please contact:
For Health Work & Wellness™ Conference:
Chris Freimond
604-990-1378
chris@cfpr.ca
For InfoTech and Wellness Checkpoint®:
sales@wellnesscheckpoint.com