As managers, we care about the well-being of our teams and colleagues. But in order to support our teams, we need to ensure that we're taking the right steps to prioritize our own mental and physical health. Many of us operate in perpetual "everything is fine" mode, but to prepare for this session, participants are encouraged to take a look at this Personal Assessment: 8 Dimensions of Wellness resource from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Take stock of your own wellness "strengths and weaknesses" and come prepared to discuss supporting wellbeing in the workplace.

Elizabeth Erbeznik (she/her) is an international educator with nearly two decades of experience in higher education. Her first role in education involved teaching English to middle schoolers as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar. (Had her Malagasy colleagues done a performance review of her teaching abilities back then, she'd have been placed squarely in the "needs improvement" phase.) She then went on to earn a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. After spending several years teaching college-level French and leading study abroad programs in Paris and Bordeaux, she took a role in the Academic Affairs department at WorldStrides (originally ISA) in 2015. She loves onboarding new colleagues, setting goals, meeting quarterly objectives, and collaborating with her team to ensure that they're supporting student learning on all their programs. In her spare time, she thrives by hanging out with her family in Austin, TX, reading, writing short stories, and traveling.