Jack Bastable

Jack has 30 years of experience staging successful workplace initiatives to increase the value of human capital for large and small companies and organizations in various industries including, manufacturing, technologies, health care, education, municipalities and professional services.

For the past 17 years, as an employee benefits consultant with CBIZ, a national business services firm, Jack has developed award winning comprehensive Health and Productivity Management (HPM) strategies for employers that integrate employee health benefits plans and organizational development that results highly engaged workforces and workplace cultures of health.

Jack’s consulting practice includes working with insurance companies and health care providers to assist them in increasing the value of the health management services they provide to their clients. In 1998, Jack led the establishment of the first Regional Alliance for the Institute for Health and Productivity Management in Kansas City, Missouri with the founding members of American Century Investments, Hallmark Cards, Sprint, Saint Luke’s Health System, Butler Manufacturing Company and CBIZ. 

Jack also serves as the Director of Education for Value Based Health with the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) to advance IHPM’s global mission to demonstrate the relationship between employee health and organizational performance. Jack’s work includes facilitation in the sharing and documenting best practices of IHPM employer members who share a common commitment to Value-Based approach to health benefits.

Jack is a frequent speaker at national and regional benefits and human resources conferences and has authored several articles on wellness and health and productivity management.