Eve Luppert

Talk therapy about mental health parity

over 2 years ago

Whenever people become delighted that we might finally legislate mental health parity (mental health care is treated as any other illness without a cap on dollars or number of visits per year) I find myself twitching just a little bit, and licking the bottom of the valium bottle. That's because ... Read More

Sports analogies at work, or What are you talking about?

over 2 years ago

Eve Luppert

How many times have you been in a meeting when some manager says, “We are at the bottom of the ninth, people, and the goalies need to step in and shoot a birdie before the clock hits the two minute mark or our third baseman will foul out. People, what we need here is a touchdown.” If this makes no ... Read More

Work: The insurance entitlement program

almost 3 years ago

Eve Luppert

The question so many of us fail to ask is why do we believe that access to health insurance is an entitlement of working people only? (And those who can work at a company that offers health insurance only, while we are at it) Or in other words, how did we get health care and employment to be so ... Read More

How a single-payer health care system can drive innovation into the economy

almost 3 years ago

Eve Luppert

A SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM COULD DRIVE INNOVATION INTO THE NEW ECONOMY I've been an HR professional for the past 20 years. I have fought with insurance companies through most of that time. More recently I've seen the impact on people who have lost their jobs and for the first time are really having to ... Read More

About Eve Luppert

Eve Luppert has a long history of working with innovative companies to build great places to work, results driven organizations and a workforce that can survive the ups and downs of modern business. She first began her HR career at Chiat/Day inc. Advertising. While there Chiat/Day Advertising, was repeatedly agency of the year and then the Agency of the Decade, in no small part to the firm’s ability to attract and keep the best in the business. She was part of the team that created and developed the organization system for the controversial Virtual Office, and became a leader in the New York Advertising HR community. In Seattle she helped build two high tech firms during the boom. She was part of creating a company culture that had a far lower than average turn over rate. She also was on the board of TeenJobs.org, helping young people to find and flourish in their first professional jobs. In 1998 Eve’s book “Rules for the Road: Surviving Your First Job out of School” was published by Putnam/Perigee. She has continued to write and speak on workplace issues since then. Most recently she spoke to the HR Signatory of the National Society of Professional Engineers on “Bridging the Generations at Work.” She wrote a weekly column on people and organizations for a website ImproveMyBusiness.com and has been published in The Seattle Business Journal and other publications. She came to Charlotte and LandDesign as their first HR Director in 2002. The firm has been nationally recognized as one of the great places to work. ----------------- Organizational Development Offerings “Creating a High Performance Team” Various "Breaking down generation barriers at work" Perkins Bickerhoff Engineering. "Holistic Approach to Facilities Management International Facilities Managers Assoc.; and others Understanding the New Workforce Society of Design Administrators; International Meeting Planners Assoc.; and others "Keeping culture alive after a layoff/merger" Seattle Chamber Of Commerce "Creating a great place to work: Seattle Chamber Of Commerce “The Future of the Workplace” New York Chamber of Commerce; The Presentation Presentation Various KeyNote Speaker Telecommute '95. Guest lecturer, UC Berkley; Columbia University, University of Oregon, Tennessee Tech, National Association of Professional Engineers, Clemson, Purdue, Washington Works, Charlotte Art Institute, Seattle Art Institute and Seattle Central Community College and more. Hosted The Workplace, a weekly Internet broadcast on www.talkspot.com Certified in Team Reconstruction; process re-engineering, creating and monitoring goal setting. Developed executive training and coaching courses.