Valeria Tivnan

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Valeria (Val) Tivnan is the Vice-President of Population Health Strategy and Well-being at IMA Financial Corp. In this role she supports IMA clients in their journey to building a culture of health in the workplace while helping leaders transform employees into knowledgeable healthcare consumers.

Val’s passion is to advise leaders on tactics to bring lifestyle medicine into workplaces with a goal of improving population health and decreasing healthcare costs. She is also passionate about mindfulness training! She is a meditation instructor, being trained by UMASS medical under Jon Kabat Zinn and more recently at Brown University.

Val has 25+ years of experience in the wellness, well-being and lifestyle medicine fields. She is the Chair of the lifestyle medicine in the workplace group from ACLM and is involved in other organizations such as HERO (Health Enhancement Research Organization) where she has contributed to several committees and published papers at prestigious journals such as the Am. J. Health Promotion. Val is also the Chair of the Worksite Wellness Council of MA. In addition, she is part of Merrimack College’s Research Board of Advisors.



Val has a master’s in education from Boston University and an MPH from UCLA. She is an Adjunct Professor at Merrimack College and has won EBA’s prestigious ‘Wellness Director of the Year’ award in 2017.