Health & Wellness Events — Pennington Partners

Health & Wellness In Person & Virtual Events

Join the Pennington Partners team for our monthly Online Wellness Events.

Get access to the best minds in health and wellness with our Quarterly Fireside Chats, with leading experts. See below for our exclusive access events.

For more information or to register, contact Jill Sheppard Davenport, our Director of Health & Wellness.

Date	Event
Wednesday August 28, 2024 12-1pm ET	Online Event: Mindfulness for Work & Life with Dr. Tara Brach Do you sometimes find yourself at work or at home—but not fully present? Are you interested in reducing stress, sharpening your focus, or strengthening crucial relationships? Join us for a special conversation on "mindfulness for work and life" with Tara Brach, Ph.D., one of the world's best meditation teachers, a psychologist, and the author of several books including the international bestselling Radical Acceptance. Her popular weekly podcast is downloaded 2.5 million times a month. She helps business leaders and others cultivate mindful attention, deepen their engagement with the world, and further their success. We’ll cover: How to be more "present," and learning to pause to respond from a better place Using meditation and mindfulness to manage strong emotions, such as anxiety or anger, to help us make clear, wise decisions Techniques for calming the nervous system and breaking away from patterns that no longer serve us How integrating mindfulness and compassion into daily interactions can empower both us and our colleagues and help unlock creativity and potential Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday July 17, 2024 12-1pm ET	Online Event: The Attributes: Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance with Rich Diviney Are you interested in sharpening your mind, progressing as a leader or building high performing teams? Join us on for a truly special conversation on human performance with Rich Diviney, the retired Navy SEAL commander who was responsible for training the most elite SEAL team to handle the nation’s most critical missions. Since retiring from the Navy, Rich has worked with thousands of business, athletic, and military leaders to consult on leadership, assessment & selection, and optimal performance. We’ll cover: The qualities of high performing teams and how to build them effectively. Why highly skilled, motivated employees can fail to meet expectations and how to turn this around. What went into creating the first ever “Mind Gym,” to help Navy SEALs train their minds to perform faster, longer, and better in high stress and highly dynamic environments – and how those skills are applicable to everyone. Steps for sharpening your mind and progressing as a leader. Watch the webinar here.
Tuesday March 26, 2024 12-1pm ET	Online Event: Your Vision for Healthy Longevity How to Protect Your Vision from Constant Screen Time and Maintain Healthy Eyes, Vision & Cognition as You Age with Dr. Neda Gioia Join us as we talk with Neda Gioia, OD, founder and owner of Integrative Vision, President of the Ocular Wellness and Nutrition Society, and frequent presenter at medical and nutrition conferences on ocular health. Dr. Gioia is passionate about merging traditional eyecare solutions with root cause approaches to improve and protect vision, eye health and the whole body at the same time. After working with executives, celebrities, and other successful clients, Dr. Scheller recognized a glaring gap in the wellness space: overconsumption of alcohol. She shares science-backed, realistic approaches for finding balance. We’ll cover: Nutrients, tools and tech for protecting the eyes from screen time. How conditions affecting your vision can be connected to what’s happening to the rest of your body, and what to do about it. Science-backed strategies that may repair or lower the risk of developing diseases and conditions like macular degeneration. Ways eye and brain health are interconnected, and how supporting the eyes helps protect against cognitive decline at the same time. Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday January 10, 2024 12-1pm ET	Online Event: Post-Holiday Health Reset Nutritional Approaches for Improving Your Health by Changing How You Drink with Dr. Brooke Scheller Join us as we talk with Dr. Brooke Scheller, Doctor of Clinical Nutrition, Founder of Functional Sobriety, and author of the new book, How to Eat to Change How You Drink. After working with executives, celebrities, and other successful clients, Dr. Scheller recognized a glaring gap in the wellness space: overconsumption of alcohol. She shares science-backed, realistic approaches for finding balance. We’ll cover: Nutritional strategies that can help you more easily adjust how much or how often you drink Biomarkers to track, to know if alcohol is impacting your health How changing the way you drink can improve cardiovascular health, cholesterol,and blood pressure Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday November 29, 2023 12-1pm ET	Online Event: Longevity: How to Invest in Your Most Important Asset Lifestyle Approaches and Precision Testing for Improving your Healthspan with Dr. Jordan Shlain Join us for a conversation on longevity with Dr. Jordan Shlain. He is Founder & Chairman of Private Medical, a full-service concierge medical practice that focuses on longevity, prevention, and precision testing. We’ll cover: The science of longevity medicine, distinguishing help vs. hype Precision testing for assessing your health and longevity Early detection and screening options for cardiovascular disease and cancer, including which tests are worth it, and when AI and precision medicine, trends, biomarkers, and what’s coming soon Lifestyle approaches that work Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday October 25, 2023 12-1pm ET	Online Event: How To Support Your Immune System Though Nutrition and Lifestyle Strategies While winter is prime cold and virus season, there is a lot we can do to support our immune system's natural defenses. Join us and Pennington's Director of Health Wellness, Jill Sheppard Davenport, CNS, LDN to learn: Nutrition and lifestyle approaches for immune system health, including what to eat and avoid and the science behind it Science-backed, targeted strategies for fighting viral infections and chronic, lingering symptoms Links between nutrition and long COVID and ways to reduce your risk Supplements for immune health including what works, what doesn't, and why How gut health is important for immune function and ways to support yours Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday September 20, 2023 12-1pm ET	Online Event: Clean Living: Choosing Healthy Products for Home and Personal Care In the sea of shopping choices, are you wondering how to navigate around certain chemicals found in food, personal care products, restaurant meals, packaged goods, and more, and whether the effort to avoid them is really worth it? In this month's webinar, we’ll review the science and myths behind “clean living” and help you make wise choices and avoid feeling overwhelmed. We’ll cover: Men and women's personal care products like deodorant, hair dye, soap and cosmetics; products for home like water filtration, air purification, cleaning and cooking equipment; food choices, like best options when eating out; prioritizing your dollars for organic/wild/pastured foods, and other food and nutrition tips. Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday June 28, 2023 12-1pm ET	Online Event: The Sweet Life – Strategies for Lowering Your Sugar Intake Join Pennington’s Director of Health and Wellness to learn delicious, doable strategies for lowering your sugar intake. So your brain, mood and body can enjoy the "sweet" life!" Learn top reasons for why we crave sweets (been there!) and get strategies for finding balance. Understand connections between sugar intake and your brain health, mental health and physical health. Take doable steps toward a "sugar detox" with strategies for handling sugar cravings.
Wednesday June 14, 2023 12-1pm ET	Online Event: Science-Based Approaches for Brain Optimization Join Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, a.k.a. "The Brain Docs" from the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Linda Loma University. They'll share what they've learned as neurologists at the forefront of Alzheimer's prevention research. Learn how to improve your performance, stay sharp, and yes, even avoid cognitive decline, with plenty of opportunities to ask your questions! The ideal time to start using these techniques is decades before symptoms would ever develop (I'm looking at you, 30, 40 and 50-somethings). The other best time to follow their lead? From your 60s on up, when tending to brain health becomes most critical and rewarding. In sum, this is for everyone. Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday April 19, 2023 12-1pm ET	Online Event: How to Get the Most Out of Your Oura Ring Do you have the Oura ring? Are you wondering how it can help you improve your health, beyond tracking your sleep and steps (which, admittedly, we find very useful on their own.) We gifted our families and the Pennington team the Oura smart ring for fitness, stress, sleep and wellness tracking. It gathers biometric data in support of building a healthy lifestyle – things like daily steps, fitness and recovery, sleep quality, heart rate variability (an indicator of stress), oxygen saturation and more. Join us online to learn how to use hidden, and not-so-hidden, features of the Oura ring. Learn tips and tricks to improve your performance, sleep, energy and readiness. Watch the webinar here.
Wednesday February 8, 2023 6pm ET	Fireside Chat: With Pro Athlete Jose Bautista Join us in Bethesda to learn ways to optimize health and performance with special guest, 6-time Major League Baseball All-Star Jose Bautista, and our own health and wellness expert Jill Sheppard Davenport. Jose led the major league’s home run record for many of his 15+ years as a pro athlete. He also served on the board for baseball equipment manufacturer Marucci, and helped lead them to a successful $200 million exit to a publicly traded company. So, when Jose gives advice, we listen.