Supportive Supervision:
The Role of Managers in Cultivating Healthy Workplaces

Program

Supportive supervision is central to healthy workplace initiatives. This session will share an occupational health and wellness framework called Total Worker Health (TWH) and focus on the role of supervisors and managers in workplace health and wellbeing. Specifically, the session will highlight two evidence-based trainings informed by the TWH approach that supervisors and managers can utilize to support employees in the areas of work-family balance and mental health. The trainings were developed by faculty at the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and are currently being implemented in public and private organizations in Oregon and beyond.

Date and Time

Friday, May 8, 2026 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Location

FREE Virtual Meeting via ZOOM.

Zoom link will be emailed to attendees after registration.

Speaker

Leslie Hammer, Ph.D

Leslie Hammer, Ph.D. is an occupational health psychologist with over 30 years of experience consulting and researching workplace mental wellbeing in a variety of industries including the military, academia, high tech, healthcare, construction, and grocery, to name a few. Hammer is Director of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, a Total Worker Health^® center of excellence. She is also Associate Director for Applied Research in the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University. She is a leading international expert on promoting and protecting workplace mental wellbeing, safety, social connectedness at work, resilience, and the prevention of occupational stress. She has extensive experience designing, implementing, and evaluating worksite wellbeing programs and evidence-based trainings for leaders, managers and supervisors that increase resilience, engagement, health and wellbeing that impact organizational outcomes such as turnover, productivity and absenteeism.

She has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles, and her research has been cited in outlets such as Newsweek, Mashable, HR Brew, Safey+Health, and HealthCentral. She is the author of Working Couples Caring for Children and Aging Parents: Effects on Work and Well-Being (2008). Most recently, Hammer was invited to be a speaker at the inaugural Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit 2025, where the brightest HR and executive minds from Fortune 500 companies, startups, investment firms, government, academia, and culture-making sectors will converge in May 2025.

Registration

www.lerachapter.org/dclera/events/supportive-supervision/

**Zoom Link will be emailed to you after registration.**

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