What's Work Got To Do With Changing a Toxic Workplace Culture?
2020 Spring Symposia Speaker: Gian Lozano, MSW, MBA
Narrator and Moderator: Helen Schuckers, MPH and Nichole Guilfoy
Gian Lozano's talk, "Changing a Toxic Workplace Culture" was given at our May 2020 Spring Symposium, where speakers picked up where the Spring 2019 symposium left off and continued with a deeper dive into specific lessons and tips for effectively addressing and preventing workplace aggression in all industries and discussed practices and strategies to prevent, identify and safely mitigate aggressive behavior and violence in the workplace. The goal of the symposium was to discuss job and industry risk factors of workplace aggression and to provide guidance for workplaces.
Gian Lozano is the High Reliability Administrative Director at Veterans Affair (VA) Portland and has had a passion for developing behavioral solutions for organizations spanning over twenty years. His MBA and MSW degrees have provided the skillset and knowledge needed to help increase profitability through improved employee engagement. His work at Eli Lilly and Co. involved improving mental health treatment teams, which directly impacted over 100,000 clients. Recent projects include executive and managerial consulting for organizations affected by toxic work cultures. This has resulted in increases in employee’s morale, reductions in operational costs, as well as, reductions in bullying, incivility, turnover and absenteeism.
For additional resources and information related to workplace violence, visit the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health's Administration Workplace Violence page at: www.osha.gov/workplace-violence
To view Gian Lozano's talk and presentation slides from the 2020 Spring Symposium, visit: https://www.ohsu.edu/oregon-institute-occupational-health-sciences/workplace-aggression-preventing-relational-aggression
Learn more about our 2020 Fall Symposium, "Worker Health: Work as a Social Determinant of Health" and access previous symposium recordings by visiting: www.ohsu.edu/oregon-institute-o…ining-and-symposia. Our virtual 2020 Fall Symposium will take place on Friday, November 13, 2020.
