Microsoft Azure for Corporate Wellness With Narinder Makin and Robert Smith

#AskTheCEO Podcast

Robert Smith is the founder & CEO of Fan Health Network which provides enterprises with turnkey well-being programs, including fun challenges. They connect you directly to professional athletes, sports personalities, and celebrities who want you to improve your fitness, diet, and well-being. Robert is also a Fox Sports Analyst and Former NFL Running back. Narinder Makin is the founder and CEO of Healthper USA, a company that offers an engagement services platform that is used to create well-being programs and digital interventions. Healthper is the underlying platform on which the Fan Health Network programs are built on top of. Narinder is a technologist and Innovator with a deep passion to solve problems for the masses. Contact Avrohom: Web: https://asktheceo.biz Facebook: AvrohomGottheil Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg Connect With Robert: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-smith-51517657/ Twitter: @robert26smith Web: www.fanhealthnetwork.com Connect with Narinder: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/narinder-makin-68416922/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthper Twitter: @narindermakin Twitter: @healthper Web: www.healthper.com INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: [01:26] Avrohom: Employer wellness programs are on the rise, with an average cost of $742 per employee, per year, according to a 2017 survey conducted by UnitedHealthcare. What are the drivers behind the growing trend of employer wellness programs? [02:26] Avrohom: What are the challenges faced by companies looking to offer employer wellness programs? Robert: Either you are just checking out whether to have a wellness solution or are coming from an existing well-being offering that had an anemic engagement or looking to extend a current well-being offering, we cover it all. You can start with HUDDLE where you engage with the celebrities including Hollywood, TV and Sports personalities, and run a holistic challenge like Find Your Purpose & Get Moving or a Take a Hike Step Challenge that can be run independently or co-exist with your existing solution. You can mature to a HEALTHY YOU program that includes personalization and complete program customization with challenges, coaching, branding, and incentives. [12:49] Where did this idea, for Fan Health Network, come from? [14:39] How has partnering with Microsoft helped you grow and scale your business? [17:54] Avrohom: There is definitely a huge emphasis, nowadays, on healthy living as evidenced by the growing market on wearable technologies; which, according to a recent report by PRNewswire, is estimated to reach a market size of over $57M by the end of 2022. Besides corporate wellness, where else do you see Fan Health Network playing a role in the overall healthy living marketplace? Robert: Fan Health Network envisions not only to increase the participation in device reported data through its integrated experience but also sustain the engagement through its rich influencer network and incentive capability. At Fan Health, we believe that our engagement capabilities promote device adoption in workplace populations. It also drives to increase data collection for patient engagement solutions that are either Digital Therapeutics Interventions or Provider backed interventions. [20:21] Avrohom: How do people connect with you? Links to Azure Market Place: 1. Take A Hike Challenge https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.msmp_takeahike_01?tab=Overview 2. Healthy You https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.healthyyou_01?tab=Overview 3. Find Your Purpose & Get Moving Challenge https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.challenge_fpgm_01?tab=Overview 4. HUDDLE https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.msmphud_transact_01?tab=Overview You can watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eiZi7--wzgA