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Health Catalyst Founder Erin Owen Draws on Personal Story to
Help Busy Professionals Stay Healthy and Stress-Free
By Kesi Stribling editor@ksgsc.com
The Strategist eNewsletter
Published by KSG Strategic Consulting
January 2006

A few years ago, Erin Owen was a successful professional, who consulted with international
clients on managing complex projects and organizational change. She was a rising star at her
organization, and even received corporate stock; however, she suffered with high levels of
stress, problems with weight and digestive problems, and her personal relationships were
strained. While Owen was “intellectually stimulated” at work, she felt “emotionally disconnected,”
and found it difficult to be optimally productive at work and at home.

After struggling with a series of increasingly debilitating health issues, Owen made the choice to
leave the corporate world behind, and start Health Catalyst. Now, she is two dress sizes smaller,
illness and prescription drug-free, and uses her personal challenges to inspire her clients.
Owen, who holds a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University, received
instruction at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center
for International Studies in Nanjing.

A certified Holistic Health Coach, Owen consults with busy professionals and corporate
executives and managers on how to reduce stress, make healthier food choices, and
encourage healthy living. Earlier this year, Owen led a discussion on Heart-Healthy Living to
local health practitioners during the National Heart Health Month.

Primarily, Health Catalyst works with corporate clients who want to decrease presenteeism in
their employees (workers who are physically present at work, but are not productive due to
illness or other diseases, including hypertension, as defined in Harvard Business Review,
October 2004, Vol. 82, Issue 10), and conducts workshops and makes presentations to
companies, including Philadelphia area health and pharmaceutical businesses that want to
increase their employees productivity.

"Employers are beginning to make the connection," observed Owen "that the choices
employees make about food, exercise - even relationships - affect how present and productive
they are on
the job, and that affects the bottom line."

In addition, Health Catalyst conducts individual sessions with moms and mothers-to-be on
balancing family responsibilities and personal needs, and coaches health practitioners on taking
care of themselves, while providing comfort and care to others.

Judy Evans (last name changed to protect the re-energized) completed the Health Catalyst
program in fall 2004. With a busy calendar, late work days and nights, and few days to just rest
and relax, the sixty-plus community service advocate needed more balance in her life. Evans
gained the tools to help her balance her life and decrease stress, including the supporting
materials, hands-on healthy food demonstrations, and shopping excursions that Health Catalyst
offered.

“There’s a need for balance,” Evans opined, and having completed the health Catalyst
program, she is more aware about making healthier food choices, and has even lessened work
hours. “No more burning the midnight oil,” Evans enthused.

Steve Dolan, a forty-two-year-old IT management consultant, was working at a “fairly stressful
job” that required him to frequently travel throughout the Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC
areas. When he began consultations with Health Catalyst, Dolan’s primary goal was to “be able
to manage my personal time.” Married with children, Dolan found that he was rarely spending
quality time with his family – his life was out of balance.

After working with Health Catalyst during the six-month coaching session, Dolan said that his
primary goal was to learn how to “wrestle control over life and (work) demands,” and as a result
of coaching sessions, he’s learned how to balance “work and home and spirituality and
children.” Steve Dolan now has regular “date nights” with his wife, and he’s started a schedule
to help separate work responsibilities from family time. Dolan has even implemented a time each
day to exercise. “I was wound tight as a top,” Dolan said, but now he’s “relaxed and feeling good
about having a plan.”

Want more information about Health Catalyst or Erin Owen? Visit www.HealthCatalystOnline.net, or call (215)
771-8968.

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