BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.7.4//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68@bhcgwi.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260521T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260521T110000 DTSTAMP:20260518T175339Z URL:https://bhcgwi.org/events/bhcg-annual-meeting/ SUMMARY:BHCG Annual Meeting: Transforming Health Care for Business Success DESCRIPTION:\n\n Employee health isn't a cost-it's a catalyst.\nThe organiz ations that will lead tomorrow are investing in health today. The BHCG Ann ual Meeting brings together top business executives\, policy experts\, and clinical leaders to explore the evolving role of health care as a strateg ic business asset.\nThis event is designed for decision-makers who want ac tionable insights into the policies\, practices\, and leadership approache s shaping high-performing organizations.\nYou'll discover:\n\nWhat's ahead in Wisconsin health care policy and how to prepare\nWhy higher-quality ca re leads to lower long-term costs\nHow leading companies are operationaliz ing a culture of health to drive measurable business outcomes\n\n \n Register now\n \n\n Agenda \n 8:30 - 9:00 AM\nRegistration &\; Breakfast\n 9:00 - 9:05 AM\nWelcome &\; Opening Remarks\nJanet Lucas-T aylor\, Executive Director\, Business Health Care Group (BHCG)\n 9:05 - 9: 30 AM\n\n \n \n\n Rachel Ver Velde \n View Bio\n Expand \n Rachel Ver Velde\nAssociate Vice President of Government Relations & Senior Political Advisor\nRachel Ver Velde joined WMC in 2021. Prior to joining WMC\, she served as Chief of Staff for Congressman Glenn Grothman from Wisconsin's 6th District. She managed his official office operations in both Washington\, D.C.\, and Wisconsin.\nRachel also served as the cong ressman's Senior Advisor on the campaign\, where she oversaw all functions and achieved double digit margins of victory in four election cycles. She was the Campaign Manager for Congressman Grothman's first congressional r un\, winning a contentious three-way primary and subsequent general electi on.\nFrom 2013 through 2014\, Rachel served as Chief of Staff in Congressm an Grothman's Wisconsin State Senate office and helped him usher 33 bills to Gov. Scott Walker's desk for enactment that legislative session.\nHer e xperience prior to 2013 includes policy roles with Congressman Grothman's Senate office and working for Congressman Paul D. Ryan in his Janesville o ffice.\nRachel graduated with Honors from the University of Wisconsin - Wh itewater with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics. She enjoys spendi ng time with her husband and three boys and refereeing the amateur wrestli ng matches that happen on an almost daily basis in her living room.\n Prop osed Healthcare Legislation in Wisconsin: Potential Employer Impacts\nRach el Ver Velde\, Associate Vice President of Government Relations &\; Sen ior Political Advisor\, Wisconsin Manufacturers &\; Commerce (WMC)\nThi s session provides a timely review of healthcare legislation in Wisconsin' s most recent legislative session - the disposition\, what it means for em ployers and what is likely to surface next. Rachel Ver Velde will break d own the key initiatives\, their intent\, and the anticipated effects on bu siness. Attendees will gain clarity on how upcoming policy changes may inf luence our healthcare landscape and employee benefits.\n BHCG Gold Sponsor Remarks\nKate Grohall\, Co-founder and VP\, Value-based Solutions\, Holis ta  \n 9:35 - 10:00 AM\n\n \n \n\n Dr. Chintan Desai \n View Bio \n Expand\n Chintan Desai is a healthcare executive serving as the Market Chief Medical Officer for Ascension Wisconsin. A board-certi fied Internal Medicine physician\, he specializes in translating organizat ional psychology and leadership frameworks into actionable strategies that bridge the gap between executive alignment and frontline clinical care.\n Throughout his career\, Dr. Desai has been a driving force in healthcare t ransformation\, focusing on continuous quality improvement\, patient safet y\, and physician engagement. He has successfully led market-wide quality initiatives\, optimized operational throughput\, and fostered a resilient culture of safety. As an active voice in the healthcare community and a f irm believer in mentorship\, he has developed leadership programs design ed to address clinical burnout and empower the next generation of physicia n leaders.\n Good Care Costs Less: Understanding the Quality-Safety-Saving s Connection\nDr. Chintan Desai\, Market Chief Medical Officer\, Ascension Wisconsin\nDr. Desai will share why good care truly costs less. This sess ion will break down the powerful connection between quality\, safety\, and financial stewardship-demonstrating how high‑quality care reduces avoid able complications\, readmissions\, and unnecessary services. Attendees wi ll gain insight into how organizations that invest in quality and safety u ltimately experience lower total cost of care-and how these principles can strengthen both patient outcomes and operational performance.\n BHCG Plat inum Sponsor Remarks\nAshok Subramanian\, CEO\, Centivo\n 10:05 - 10:45 AM \n\n \n \n\n CEO Mike Critelli \n View Bio\n Expand\n Michael J. Critelli is a veteran CEO\, board leader\, and transformatio n strategist whose career has focused on guiding large\, complex instituti ons through periods of structural disruption. He is best known for his ten ure as Chairman and CEO of Pitney Bowes\, where he led one of the most sig nificant reinventions in the company's long history.\nWhen Critelli became CEO in 1996\, Pitney Bowes was a mature manufacturer of mailing equipment \, heavily dependent on a regulated product line. Over the next 12 years\, he led a disciplined transformation that repositioned the company as a di versified technology and services enterprise focused on mailstream solutio ns.\nThe company expanded globally\, reduced reliance on regulated revenue s\, and built new growth platforms for a digital economy. Central to his l eadership was confronting uncomfortable realities early-about markets\, re gulation\, technology\, and organizational inertia-and acting before exter nal pressures forced change. His commitment to innovation was reflected in 15 U.S. patents. His industry leadership included regulatory and legislat ive reform that produced the first comprehensive postal reform legislation in 37 years.\nCritelli's systems-level approach also encompassed workforc e wellbeing. His leadership in employer-sponsored health innovation at Pit ney Bowes was the subject of a 2009 Harvard Business School case study pub lished by Professor Michael Porter and Senior Researcher Jennifer Baron\, which highlighted how employer-led health initiatives not only improved em ployee health\, but enhanced long-term enterprise performance.\nHe has sin ce advised numerous organizations and presented this work at forums includ ing the World Economic Forum\, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneu rship\, The Business Council\, the World Health Organization and the Natio nal Business Group on Health. He is currently co-authoring a book on build ing workforce cultures of health.\nBeyond his operating role\, Critelli ha s remained deeply engaged in governance\, public policy\, and advisory wor k. He has led major transportation and environmental policy initiatives\, including chairing state-level public-private task forces focused on Clean Air Act compliance and transportation reform. He served for more than 15 years on the board of the New York-based Regional Plan Association and co- chaired its Connecticut Committee during the release of its Third and Four th Regional Plans.\nCritelli spent 23 years on the board of Eaton Corporat ion and\, since 2008\, has advised RAND on issues at the intersection of h ealth\, economic wellbeing\, and public policy. He also advised Proudfoot for eight years\, bringing an operator's perspective to enterprise executi on.\nFollowing his Pitney Bowes tenure\, he became a serial entrepreneur\, serving as CEO of the Dossia Service Corporation\, which focused on deplo ying patient-controlled\, lifelong electronic health records. His advocacy contributed to revised FDA rules granting patients unrestricted access to diagnostic results.\nCritelli's work spans business\, policy\, and storyt elling. He created and produced the feature-length film From the Rough a nd serves on several nonprofit boards focused on health\, education\, and opportunity.\nToday\, Critelli is CEO of MoveFlux Corporation\, an AI-enab led software platform that helps organizations identify emerging risks\, o pportunities\, and system-level blind spots. He is also co-founder of the MakeUsWell Network\, which uses AI-supported tools to translate complex he alth and wellbeing science into practical guidance. Together\, these effor ts reflect the consistent through-line of his career: helping leaders see what others miss and act before change becomes unavoidable.\nHe holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin and a JD\, cum laude\, from Harvard Law School.\n\n \n \n\n Ray Fabius\, MD \n View Bio\n Expa nd\n Throughout his career\, Dr. Raymond J Fabius has garnered medical and business leadership experience in an extensive variety of healthcare management areas including informatics\, strategy\, operations\, network d evelopment and oversight\, patient management\, quality management\, disea se management\, national accounts\, occupational medicine\, emergency prep aredness\, worker productivity\, wellness and health promotion\, travel me dicine\, web-based health content delivery\, data warehousing\, and analyt ics. He has served as a physician executive in academics\, private practic e\, managed care\, the health insurance industry\, e-health\, corporate an d workplace health\, the pharmaceutical industry\, and health informatics and analytics. He has been Global Medical Leader for General Electric\, Ch ief Medical Officer (CMO) for Thomson Reuters\, Population Health Strategi st for Walgreens and CMO for Truven Health Analytics.  He was also the CM O and President of i-trax\, the leading provider of workplace health cente rs. He is the author of many articles\, book chapters and five books inclu ding the leading textbook on population health entitled Population Health: Creating Cultures of Wellness which is utilized by 165 medical schools an d universities. https://www.jblearning.com/catalog/productdetails/97812841 66606\nDr. Fabius is also the recipient of the Bill Whitmer HERO Award for lifetime leadership in the health and wellbeing space.  Previously he wa s recognized by the National Business Group on Health and the American Col lege of Occupational and Environmental Medicine with the Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award. Dr. Fabius also serves the Greater Philadelphi a Business Group on Health as its medical adviser since its inception a de cade ago. Additionally he is a member of the editorial board of two major medical publications - The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medic ine and The Population Health Management Journal.\nDr. Fabius is a recogni zed serial entrepreneur having participated in several accreditive transac tions including the sale of US Healthcare to Aetna\, the sale of I-trax to Walgreens and the sale of Truven Health Analytics to Veritas Capital as w ell as establishing the largest independent pediatric practice in the Phil adelphia marketplace early in his career.\nDr. Fabius is the co-founder\, president and chief medical officer of HealthNEXT\, the marketplace leader in building enterprise cultures of health\, safety and wellbeing. Leverag ing physician executive expertise\, systematic process improvement\, healt h informatics and the science of population health\, his company has devel oped a platform and methodology to bend health care cost trends\, and redu ce absenteeism\, presenteeism\, voluntary turnover\, as well as worker's c ompensation. His research has demonstrated that workforce health produces a competitive advantage.\n Keynote Address: Managing Healthcare for Busine ss Success\nMike Critelli\, Former Chairman &\; CEO\, Pitney Bowes\nRay Fabius\, MD\, Co-Founder\, President\, and Chief Medical Officer\, Health NEXT\nResearch shows that companies that foster a "culture of health" outp erform in the marketplace. In this keynote\, two globally recognized leade rs will share their real-world experience building benchmark enterprise cu ltures of health - from the perspective of a CEO\, Mike Critelli and a cor porate global medical leader\, Ray Fabius\, MD. The presentation will foc us both the "why" and the "how\," while remaining true to the premise that cultivating the health of the workforce is not a cost\, but an investment required to generate a high-performance organization.\n 10:45 - 11:00 AM\ nClosing Remarks\nJanet Lucas-Taylor\, Executive Director\, Business Healt h Care Group (BHCG)\n\n Thank you to our meeting sponsors \n Platinum:\n \n \n \n \n \n Gold:\n\n \n \n \n \n Exhibitors:\n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bhcgwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/an nual-meeting-2026-1.png LOCATION:Italian Community Center\, 631 E. 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