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Jean Accius

  • Senior Vice President AARP and Contributor, Freelance
Washington, D.C.
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President & CEO @chcimpact—Working to address the barriers to health and solving inequity, which impacts all of us.
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Your exit interviews are asking the wrong questions

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By Jean Accius
| Fast Company Verified
“She didn’t quit because she didn’t love the job. She quit because her son’s school kept calling her out of meetings, because the after-school program in her neighborhood closed, because by the time she got home on two buses she had nothing left. None of that appeared on the exit survey.” Her manager told me this story when I asked what he wished the company’s people team understood.
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Workplace mental health is a leadership issue

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By Jean Accius
| Fast Company Verified
For years, companies treated employee mental health as peripheral rather than central to their core operations. It was something you offered employees as a benefit, pointed people toward as a resource, or handed off to HR rather than owned at a leadership level. That era is over. Mental health now shapes how people lead, collaborate, solve problems, manage stress, and stay in the workforce—in other words, it shapes the very things organizations depend on to perform.
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Healthy communities, healthy bottom lines

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By Jean Accius
| Fast Company Verified
According to the National Association of Corporate Directors, boardrooms today face a dizzying list of risks: economic volatility, geopolitical tensions, cybersecurity threats, technological disruption, and a tightening labor market. But the one risk too often overlooked? That businesses rely on healthy people and healthy communities. Despite spending more on healthcare than any other nation, the U.S. is falling behind on nearly every major health indicator.
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