Programs

This program will explore healthful strategies to address all these key areas including: Tips for increasing energy, disease prevention, meal planning as well as interactive stress reducing techniques.  Covering needed areas for: Fuel, Fitness, Fun and Family.

Participants will leave this program ready to:

• Address the basic components of balance (Fuel, Fitness, Fun and Family)
• Implement healthful changes on day one.
• Make a checklist for achieving life, work balance.
• Implement preventive Strategies for a healthful future

• Insurance Issues
• Addressing Existing Health Problems
• Preventive Strategies
• Packing Musts
• Pulling Through in the Event of Illness
• Increasing Energy
• Medical Care When Traveling
• What you need to Know about Supplements and Medications

After this session you will be inspired to implement these tips immediately after the program.

Part I: “Effective Delivery of FODMAP-Restricted Diets for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)”
• Common characteristics of FODMAP carbohydrates how they act collectively
to cause IBS symptoms
• Common high and low FODMAP foods
• Identifying appropriate patients for a FODMAP elimination diet
• Nutrition care planning for IBS patients using FODMAP approach
• Menu and recipe modification
• Identifying FODMAP ingredients on food labels
• Resources
Part II: “Gluten Related Disorders, Assessment, Diagnoses and Treatment”
• New assessment & diagnostic protocol celiac disease vs. gluten sensitivity
• Newly established food labeling laws
• Meal planning and recipe modification

This Presentation is designed with an easy to follow 5 Step process that will provide participants the tools they need to help reduce health related issues in the workplace.

Step 1.  Designing a company health assessment with strategies to evaluate weakness that need to be addressed.

Step 2.  Developing an action plan to determine the simplest steps to start healthful changes today.

Step 3.  Hands-on audience participant work sheet designed to create a strategy to implement changes and make needed adjustments.

Step 4.  Evaluation methods to measure employee cooperation and success.

Step 5.  Reassessment strategies and Q and A for long term success.

Let’s face it: simply telling patients what they should do is not always enough to motivate them to change. If it was, everyone would being getting much better results, patient recovery time would improve, healthcare costs would come down, and hospital stays would be reduced. Unfortunately, this is not the reality, and, often, hard-line approaches to encourage patient change may sabotage the results leading to patient shut-downs.

In order to achieve better results, making simple changes are easy to implement. Start by using tried and true techniques such as smart goals, motivational interviewing, coaching, stages of changes, along with different verbiage and body language. Couple these with other techniques to customize your messages for each of your patients using better listening skills even when time constraints are tight. Marlisa will share actionable skills to help you to motivate your patients to overcome their roadblocks and achieve better compliance and long term success.

Todays’ restaurants are often inundated with numerous dietary requests from; gluten-free, Paleo, organic, sustainable, vegetarian, non GMO, raw foods, food allergens, low fat, high protein, low sodium, low carb and more.

Understanding these requests and staff training are crucial for customer satisfaction.   Often specific food questions are directed to the first point of contact, therefore training needs to be provided at every level from; management, chefs, bartenders, customer service to restaurant staff. This is especially important if a request is for a medical concern which can lead to a life threatening reaction if a mistake is made.   To be successful it is mandatory to have a standardized plan along with training programs. It is no longer adequate to rely on an existing employee to come up with solutions for these customers on the spot, especially if training is inadequate.

Compound all of this with generational differences which are often tied to many healthy requests. Join Marlisa Brown an expert in consumer health trends, culinary specialist and award winning dietitian.  She is also an author of several books on gluten-free, food allergens and diabetes and Marlisa will take you through steps that are needed which can be implemented into your business model. Marlisa has worked directly in the food service/healthcare system for over 2 ½ decades and she will show you how to identify what your customers are looking for.  Marlisa will also give you the insight to understand generational differences and show how it will impact culinary demands in the future.  This program will give you insight behind specific requests, identify needed protocol for training staff, provide solutions for common mistakes that are made, will differentiate between FADs and trends and will show you what each generation will be asking for and why.

This program is designed to provide methods to foster better communications when working with medical professionals and the patients they serve.

• Establish issues facing private practice providers today.
• Use motivational interviewing as a tool to facilitate open dialogue and communication.
• Optimize training programs to support staff and patient needs as another way to showcase your products.
• Increase your value by becoming an asset to your market.
• Become a resource to local communities to increase patient trust and demand.

• Understand the needs of different types of customers who are seeking specific health products.
• Match their products with the ideal customer using a simple check list.
• Identify common marketing errors of health products that lead to reduced consumer confidence.
• Site ways to build customer and consumer loyalty.
• Targeted resources such as; education, community programs, healthcare programs, conferences and sporting events.
• Overcome communication barriers due to language or technical terms which confuse the end user.
• Putting these tools into practice.

Motivation, along with a goal setting utilizing small incremental steps helps build an action plan for success.

Marlisa will explore the basic skills that every entrepreneur must have, sharing her humor and positive energy every step of the way.

Whether you are looking to open a new department, trying to build a niche, or exploring new ventures this is the program for you. Marlisa will lead you through the thought process from; product and skill development, building a brand, platform, setting an action plan, working with the media and more.

Part I: “Effective Delivery of FODMAP-Restricted Diets for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)”
• Common characteristics of FODMAP carbohydrates how they act collectively
to cause IBS symptoms
• Common high and low FODMAP foods
• Identifying appropriate patients for a FODMAP elimination diet
• Nutrition care planning for IBS patients using FODMAP approach
• Menu and recipe modification
• Identifying FODMAP ingredients on food labels
• Resources
Part II: “Gluten Related Disorders, Assessment, Diagnoses and Treatment”
• New assessment & diagnostic protocol celiac disease vs. gluten sensitivity
• Newly established food labeling laws
• Meal planning and recipe modification