Webinar - Empowering Health Transformation: Integrating Health Coaching with Lifestyle Medicine, by Susan Tan

Webinar Title: "Empowering Health Transformation: Integrating Health Coaching with Lifestyle Medicine"

Synopsis :In a world increasingly challenged by chronic diseases and lifestyle-related health issues, the integration of health coaching with lifestyle medicine offers a promising path to sustainable wellness. This one-hour talk explores how these two disciplines complement each other to create a holistic approach to health, empowering individuals to make meaningful changes that last.

Participants will learn how health coaching's client-centered techniques—such as motivational interviewing, goal-setting, and behavior-change strategies—serve as essential tools for supporting patients in adopting the pillars of lifestyle medicine. These include nutrition, physical activity, stress management, sleep hygiene, social connection, and cessation of substances like tobacco and alcohol, all critical for preventing and managing chronic conditions.

The session will cover practical applications, including case studies, illustrating how health coaches and lifestyle medicine practitioners can collaborate to address clients' unique health challenges.

Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to implement these approaches in clinical or community settings, enhance patient engagement and activation, and ultimately improve health outcomes. Whether you are a healthcare provider, a health coach, allied health professional or a wellness professional, this talk offers valuable strategies to expand your impact in the lives of those you serve.

About the Speaker:

Susan's professional interest lies in the intersection of evidence-based behavioural change strategies with lifestyle medicine along the lifespan to prevent disease risks, enhance overall well-being, and improve lives.

In 2003, Susan founded ECI Consulting Holdings, a public health focused social enterprise, committed to elevate happiness and health for individuals and corporations. She enjoys helping individuals improve their health literacy through community workshops and health talks on topics linked to weight control and lifestyle medicine including nutrition, exercise stress management and smoking cessation, and changing health behaviours through 1-1 coaching and group coaching .

Susan has worked closely with health care organisations and community organisations in capability building and aged-friendly transformation projects.

She has played pivotal role in developing and advising on:

●      Aged-friendly transformation project.

●      Capability building of aged care workforce.

●      Healthy longevity research and AI health coaching.

●      The setting up of the inaugural competency-based registry for health and wellness coaches in Singapore.

●      The setting up of and implementation of health coaching operations.

●      Workplace health and community holistic healthy ageing programmes based on lifestyle medicine.

●      The operational management of telemedicine call centre, 24-hour clinic, career centre.

●      Projects with the Health Promotion Board involving smoking cessation and healthy lifestyle adoption.

Within the academia, she has taught at NUS, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Motivational Interviewing), NUS, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (Global and Community Health), NTU School of Social Sciences (Health Coaching) and Hua Mei Academy (Diploma in Senior Services).

These days, Susan's focus is on expanding health and wellness coaching as a profession with a registry that is based on competency framework in health and wellness coaching and to harness AI technology in this area.