Founded in 1993, Summex is privately held and headquartered in
Indianapolis, Ind. Balance Learning's Dimension Manager, a ready-to-implement learning
platform , handles all administrative and tracking functions and automates
communications, scheduling, and reporting for employees, supervisors, and
managers.

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"Over the last several years, benefits consultants have found that
their clients expect advice on health management topics.

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"Modifying his role in this way helps capitalize on his industry
relationships, vast base of client experience and vision across the industry.com.

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One of Chapman's first priorities is to develop a technical white paper
series addressing the challenges facing the health management field. He provides
counsel to the National Institutes of Health; the Center for Disease Control;
the U. Chapman is a frequent industry keynote speaker
who earned a master's degree in medical care organization from the University
of Michigan School of Public Health.

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It accomplishes
this by developing, implementing and managing comprehensive wellness programs
that include a customizable combination of health risk assessments , personal
coaching, Web-based information and services, ongoing lifestyle education and
financial incentives. To learn more about the company, its services or
methodologies, please call (888) 878 -6639 or visit http://www."
"Coaching for Performance" encompasses on-line courses, workshop
instruction , and on-the-job activities that help introduce managers to
coaching as a management skill.

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He will also cultivate new markets to
facilitate the company's long-term growth, viability and success. He has also received numerous
professional awards, including a Lifetime Service Award from the Association
of Worksite Health Promotion and recent induction into the National Wellness
Institute's Service and Leadership Circle. WOBURN, Mass. They developed the XySync management effectiveness system and the
Management Realization Index. For more information, visit: www.

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summex. The program provides participants with
instruction in developing coaching plans, improving coaching skills,
maintaining momentum and measuring success in coaching. "The most successful businesses
understand that the art of coaching is not innate, but rather must be learned
and practiced like any other skill. The course will help participants improve
their overall effectiveness as a leader, teach them how to create coaching
plans that are clear and comprehensive, and demonstrate how to effectively
implement coaching in their own organizations.

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"Larry's contribution to our strategic direction has been invaluable over
the years," stated Rob Plankenhorn, Summex's president and chief executive
officer . I want to be a
forward-positioned resource to help deliver the best possible information,
both on health management issues as well as Summex's services. Army, U.
Upon completion of "Coaching for Performance," participants will have the
ability to effectively prepare and carry out structured coaching sessions and
apply coaching to a variety of business situations and employee needs and
styles . The book,
"The Missing Metric, the MRI for
Organizations," presents the need, logic, and process for a wholly
different perspective into organizations.

"Management Realization is the degree management is realizing its potential
to align and engage a workforce to perform to its capacity .

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Additionally, Chapman will lead Summex's fast-paced
research and development initiative and will define go-to-market strategies
for new services and methodologies. Our clients will benefit
from services that are proven to effect measurable enhancements in employees'
health while maximizing the return on their investment in wellness
initiatives.S.

About Summex Health Management
As a pioneer and leading agent for change in the wellness industry, Summex
works with health insurance companies (managed care organizations or MCOs),
human resource and benefits consultants and businesses with 1,000 or more
employees to actively manage and reduce health care costs. Synergy Marketing Group, Inc." "We believe this to be one of the most
significant moves toward increased performance for any organization with
distributive management.

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Chapman will apply his more than 25 years of industry experience,
research, knowledge and relationships to help Summex develop innovative new
practices, deliver results-based wellness programs and further establish the
company's position in the health management marketplace.
All of Summex's lifecycle services are designed to change high-risk
behaviors that lead to illnesses, disease, injury and high medical costs.com/folder_solutions/vci_performance_management.

Contact:
Linda Galloway
Apollo Associates LLC
203 790 1591
lgalloway@apolloassociates.

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Instead, he will develop strategic
partnerships with some of the country's largest human resource and benefits
consulting firms and build strong working relationships with Summex's current
clients. Navy; the Department of Veteran's
Affairs and the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for
Medicare + Medicaid Services). Vosler Group uses performance metrics to bring a new
reality to true organizational
development.

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The change in Chapman's focus is in direct response to Summex's
recognition of the increasingly influential role that HR and benefits
consultants play in the corporate health management industry.
"Companies recognize organizational success is directly linked to the
success of individual employees.
A new book asserts that effectively competing
in today's global business environment, by accurately gauging an
organization's health and optimum performance, lies in something more than
traditional customer, operational and financial metrics alone.

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About Balance Learning
Balance Learning LLC provides strategic corporate training for customer
service, leadership, presentations, performance coaching, influencing and
other mission-critical skills. The assessment additionally
identifies the nature and location of specific management problems, uncovers latent or
hidden discriminatory or unethical
practices or perspectives, and provides more immediate feedback about
specific project initiatives, policy changes, and key leadership development.

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He has published more than 170 articles and
columns and 13 books on wellness and health cost management. This perspective contends for a
new metric complementing the quarterly financial metrics with the power to
reveal real opportunities for bottom-line performance gains.

Businesses offering education and/or training about management leadership .

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This shift will allow Chapman to focus exclusively on the role
wellness plays and the value it brings to the overall health care landscape. Its
programs are based on the latest empirical research, designed to engage
employees and monitored to yield a positive, quantifiable return on
investment.
317-205-9690 x 5 317-205-9690 x 2
denisemcfadden@synergy-mg. Balance Learning was co-founded in 2002 by Chris Horseman,
former president of McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning and Xebec Interactive
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Just as
operational and customer metrics can help predict financial performance, the MRI will now
bring previously untapped diagnostic insight alongside today 's existing set
of organizational indicators," said Stuart Vosler,
co-author of "The Missing Metric .

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com. For more information, visit http://www.balancelearning.

About the Vosler Group

With over 40 years of combined corporate management experience, co-authors
Stuart Vosler and Randall Vosler founded the management effectiveness firm
of Vosler Group LLC.

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Over the
next year, he will make this research available to industry consultants as
well as large employers., Balance Learning, a provider of
comprehensive blended learning solutions for strategic corporate training,
today announced the availability of "Coaching for Performance," a
comprehensive blended learning curriculum designed for managers, supervisors,
and team leaders who want to improve staff performance or need to coach others
to improve specific skills. Since the MRI measures the causal nature of
management, it actually is the driver of all metrics.

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His leadership in this effort will allow Summex to be more responsive to the
consultant community by providing comprehensive research-based methodologies
that leverage our significant investment in technology and years of experience
working with large employers . It also allows
me to actively promote and build upon Summex's expertise in research,
development , deployment, measurement and analysis. Summex has more than a decade of experience empowering employees
to eliminate risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and smoking
that can result in heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and cancer.com

As with all Balance
Learning offerings, the performance management program includes self-paced
learning, instructor-led workshops, on-the -job activities to reinforce
learning, and milestone assessments to measure results."

This new MRI design provides period-over-period progress of managerial
effectiveness of an entire enterprise .

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INDIANAPOLIS, Summex, a pioneer and leading agent
for change in the health management industry , today announced a strategic
shift in the role that Larry Chapman, its co-founder and chairman of the
board, will play in the company's future.
Effective immediately, Chapman will no longer offer stand-alone consulting
services on general health care topics.S.balancelearning.

"The Missing Metric" introduces the Management Realization Index, (MRI) a
breakthrough assessment that provides problem-solving data, identifying
where problem areas exist within an organization often well before the
issues negatively affect the organization's financial results.

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Summex's goal
is to offer Chapman as a resource to these consultants by providing them with
the data, research and technology they require to help their clients make
buying decisions."
In addition to his role with Summex, Chapman continues to serve as an
editor for the American Journal of Health Promotion and the editor of the Art
of Health Promotion Newsletter. Air Force and U.com amyzucker@synergy -mg.com

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Synergy Marketing Group , Inc. Effective coaching is critical to any
employee's success - whether through developing strong sales skills, building
strong customer relations, improving leadership or job-specific skills, or
working more effectively with fellow employees," said Chris Horseman,
president and CEO of Balance Learning. Balance Learning's unique
three-dimensional training method delivers a powerful combination of dynamic
classroom techniques, modern e-learning and practical, supervised application
of workplace activities that provides measurable results.
Only Balance Learning offers blended learning programs that can be quickly
tailored to a company's specific objectives and implemented within two to
three weeks.

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S. This program will enable managers and
supervisors improve their individual coaching skills to help their employees
reach their full potential and perform at the highest level possible.
For a demonstration or more information, go to
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"This is an exciting change which is extremely invigorating," noted
Chapman. All Balance Learning offerings incorporate a
unique three-dimensional approach: self-paced, web-based learning to provide
all employees with a common knowledge foundation; instructor-led workshops to
help employees practice skills in a variety of role-play situations; and a
series of follow-on activities that reinforce the application of skills on the
job.