Fran Melmed

Fran Melmed is an award-winning HR communications consultant specializing in workplace wellness and health care consumerism. Prior to founding context communication consulting llc context communication, Fran worked at Hewitt Associates in their Talent and Organizational Change and Communication practices in the U.S. and U.K. Contact her at fran@contextcommunication.com, and follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/femelmed.

Are We Getting Too Little Time Off? Here’s Why Richard Branson Is Right

Fran MelmedJune 28, 2011

Editor’s note: TLNT health and wellness contributor had a strong reaction to some of Sir Richard Branson’s comments during his Opening General … Read more

Where Health Care Benefits Are Going: Some Insights – and Challenges

Fran MelmedJune 17, 2011

There’s been a lot of coverage of Aon Hewitt’s 2011 Health Care Survey. You can find great summaries and analyses by TLNT and Jane Sarasohn-Kahn at Health … Read more

It’s Game On in the World of Workplace Wellness

Fran MelmedJune 13, 2011

Have you heard of Virgin HealthMiles? Shape Up the Nation? Limeade? How about Redbrick Health? Keas or MeYou Health? It’s likely a few of these are … Read more

Changing Health Behavior: Yes, Some Incentives Can Create Bad Habits

Fran MelmedJune 3, 2011

Back in May, we held a health tweet chat with I2I’s (Incentive Intelligence’s) managing director and lead consultant Paul Hebert about designing … Read more

Research and Demographics Make Case For Employee Caregiver Groups

Fran MelmedMay 24, 2011

The Pew Internet Project’s released their latest study on the social life of health information. The full report marks the growth in use of online … Read more

Employer Lessons From a Controversial Children’s Anti-Obesity Campaign

Fran MelmedMay 11, 2011

The Georgia Children’s Health Alliance has taken a lot of grief for this campaign. The links here are a smattering of the hue and cry. The campaign … Read more

Virgin HealthMiles: Will Pay-For-Prevention Get Employees Motivated?

Fran MelmedApril 15, 2011

Virgin HealthMiles offers “pay for performance” health and wellness solutions they call pay-for-prevention. Employees who use their system rack up personal … Read more

Five Ways to Breathe Life Into Your Benefits Communications

Fran MelmedMarch 10, 2011

Let’s say you’ve discovered that employees aren’t aware of a new benefit. They don’t understand how the new consumer-driven health plan works. They’re not … Read more

Beyond Tobacco: How do You Feel About a Junk Food-Free Workplace?

Fran MelmedFebruary 28, 2011

Yesterday I was talking with my South by Southwest (SXSW) co-presenter, Michael Samuelson. We were taking turns spouting off about what inspires and … Read more

The SHRM Workplace Forecast: It’s Health, Health, and More Health

Fran MelmedFebruary 24, 2011

SHRM released its biennial report on workplace trends (the SHRM Workplace Forecast) this month. It’s really about health. Health is the workplace trend to … Read more