Event Calendar

Start Date: 10/8/2025 7:45 AM EDT
End Date: 10/8/2025 10:00 AM EDT

Venue Name: Westwood Country Club

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Organization Name: HR Alliance DC

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Join us at the Westwood Country Club for our October Program!

Networking: 7:45 - 8:15 AM
Arrive early for an opportunity to meet new people!

Program Description:

Stress, loneliness, and burnout are at record highs, costing U.S. employers over $300 billion annually through lost productivity, absenteeism, and turnover. But what if the solution doesn’t require a massive overhaul? 

Join a dynamic panel of wellness experts to explore the latest research on workplace wellbeing and how integrating small, science-backed practices into the workday can lead to meaningful gains in employee satisfaction, performance, and retention. You’ll learn practical, evidence-based strategies across nutrition, movement, and mental health designed to fit seamlessly into the flow of work. From microbreaks to mindset shifts, this session will equip you with actionable tools to support a healthier, more resilient workforce. And throughout the session you’ll get to experience a few microbreaks yourself. Come ready to move, reflect, and recharge!

Learning Objectives:
By participating in this session, you will be able to: 

• Describe the current state of employee health and wellbeing, including recent research on the organizational impact of stress, burnout, and the benefits of workplace microbreaks.
• Identify evidence-based strategies for incorporating microbreaks into the workday across key wellness domains: mental health, physical activity, and nutrition.
• Demonstrate simple microbreak techniques that can be replicated or adapted to support a culture of wellbeing within their own teams or organizations.

Speakers:

• Elizabeth Owens - Certified Nutrition Specialist® Practitioner and Owner, Wellness With Elizabeth, LLC
• Dr. Rich Kelly, DPT, CF-L1, Performance Physical Therapist, Rehab 2 Perform
• Gia Mariam Hasan, MS, PCC Executive Leadership Coach and Systems Practitioner

Facilitator: Lygeia Ricciardi, Founder & CEO, AdaRose, Inc. 

Lygeia Ricciardi is the Founder and CEO of AdaRose, which provides personalized, gamified team wellness programs to employers to enhance employee productivity, engagement, and wellbeing. Lygeia has spent more than 20 years at the vanguard of the patient engagement movement in digital health, in both the public and private sectors, and has been named among the Top 30 Voices Transforming Wellness, Most Influential Women in Health IT, and the 50 Most Influential Voices in Healthcare. 

Lygeia is a frequent speaker and blogger and has appeared in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Consumer Reports. She holds a Masters in Technology in Education from Harvard and a BA from Wellesley College. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, daughters, and two Siamese cats.

Speakers:

Elizabeth Owens is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® practitioner, Licensed Nutritionist, and the owner of Wellness With Elizabeth, LLC. She is dedicated to helping individuals optimize their health by addressing the root causes of their concerns through a functional medicine model with a focus on nutrition and lifestyle. 

With over a decade of experience, including roles at the CDC and Maryland University of Integrative Health, Elizabeth brings a comprehensive and personalized approach to wellness. She specializes in metabolic health, cognition, digestion, and inflammation, and empowers clients to create sustainable changes that optimize their quality of life.

Dr. Rich Kelly, DPT, CF-L1, Performance Physical Therapist, Rehab 2 Perform, was raised in Plainfield, Illinois playing multiple sports growing up, mainly consisting of baseball, basketball and football. Rich continued his football career in college at Concordia St. Paul University from 2014-2019. He had a successful college career earning All-Conference and All-Region honors his senior year, and then was blessed with a private workout with the Minnesota Vikings. An ACL injury his sophomore year is what began his interest of working in sports rehabilitation. Rich completed an internship with the CSP’s strength and conditioning staff as well as the athletic training staff. He graduated with his B.S in Biology and Kinesiology from CSP. Rich then went on to earn his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from CSP, where he also completed a clinical rotation with Dr. Caleb Fatzinger at R2P’s Columbia location.

Rich has experience working with athletes of all backgrounds ranging from youth all way to higher level professional leagues. He also enjoys and works with many active adult populations helping them return to activities they enjoy. Rich is passionate about empowering patients to take control on their rehabilitation process while being a resource to help return to what they love doing. He hopes to be able to use his own experiences with sports rehabilitation to help create a better rapport and empathize with patients. Outside of the clinic, Rich enjoys staying active by doing CrossFit and playing in local rec leagues and golfing.

Gia Mariam Hasan, MS, PCC is an executive leadership coach and systems practitioner with over a decade of experience supporting leaders, teams, and organizations through complex change. Specializing in stress, trauma, and resilience, she integrates somatic practices, mindfulness, neuroscience, and systems thinking to help clients build the internal capacity to lead through uncertainty and create cultures of trust, adaptability, and innovation.

She is an advanced Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit and has completed training in MIT’s Theory U, grounding her work in embodied, trauma-informed, and purpose-driven approaches to transformation. Her methodology bridges personal development and systemic impact, enabling organizations to move beyond quick fixes and engage in deep, sustainable change. 

Known for her ability to sense emerging dynamics and hold space for honest, transformative conversations, Gia helps individuals and groups navigate complexity with clarity, connection, and care. Her work supports regenerative leadership that is responsive, relational, and rooted in shared purpose.

Professional Development:
This program has been pre-approved for 1.5 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR®, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).



HR Alliance DC is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities. This program is valid for 1.50 PDCs for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit shrmcertification.org.



Pricing for this Program:

• Members:
  • Individual and Organizational Members - Free; Guests - $50
  • Annual Sponsors - Free; Guests - $50
• Org. Member Substitutes - Free (promo code must be entered)
• Public (Non-Member)
  • HR Practitioners: $75
  • Service Providers/Vendors: $125