Wolf Kirsten is the Founder and Principal of International Health Consulting based in Tucson, Arizona and Hamburg, Germany (www.wolfkirsten.com). His consulting portfolio is truly global, advising companies on health and well-being strategies such as Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, IBM, and Siemens in many regions of the world. In addition, he has been consulting the World Health Organization (WHO) on developing global guidelines for Healthy Workplaces. He also advised the governments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Mongolia on the development of a national strategy and infrastructure for health promotion.

Mr. Kirsten is co-founder of the Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces (http://globalhealthyworkplace.org), which has been hosting the Global Healthy Workplace Awards each year since 2013 and certifies enterprises as healthy workplaces. He also is the Past President of the International Association of Worksite Health Promotion (IAWHP) and serves on the board of the International Institute for Health Promotion (IIHP). He has lectured and published extensively on the global aspects of health promotion and wellness including the book “Global Perspectives in Workplace Health Promotion” and benchmarking study “Winning Strategies in Global Workplace Health Promotion”.