8. Build Leadership Support

Learn From Others

You already know how to work with your leadership to get the support and approvals you need for new programs. This section provides information about factors specific to type 2 diabetes prevention and the National DPP lifestyle change program that you may need to consider.
  • Take a few minutes to watch this video to learn more about quick ways you can inspire leadership engagement and support.
 

What Approaches Have Other Employers Used?

Learn what other organizations did to gain leadership support:

“Once we looked at [our wellness and health claims data] and presented that data to our senior leadership … and just how many of our team members were either affected by diabetes or anything that goes along with it, the hypertension, the overweight, all of those sorts of things … the data really told the story for us and sold it for us as to why we needed to do something for our population.”

For more information about Toyoda Gosei’s diabetes prevention and management efforts, listen to this podcast.

“When approaching our senior leadership about offering the national diabetes prevention program, we used data as our first source of showing the return of investment of offering a program such as this. But certainly, the notion, the desire to ensure that we had a healthier city, healthier employees and families was really the main driver of moving forward.”