Bernie Dyme on November 5th, 2011

If you don’t know who  Jerry West is then you aren’t a real basketball fan.  But, please don’t stop reading now if you don’t know him because this blog is about a talented basketball player and a courageous man who spent a lifetime fighting depression.  And now he is sharing it his new autobiography, “West by [...]

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Bernie Dyme on September 8th, 2011

So I am back in Washington D.C. for the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention meeting.  As I have mentioned in some previous posts, I am on the Workplace Task Force with a number of individuals who are very concerned about seeing work as a place to make an impact and prevent suicides.  When I [...]

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Bernie Dyme on October 29th, 2009

This year’s EAPA conference did what it always does; it got me all pumped up.  And, this year the opening keynote address was delivered by a leader in the employee assistance program (EAP) field, Dan Conti, PhD. 
Dan is the Managing Director of the Employee Assistance & Work Life Programs at JP Morgan Chase, the parent company of [...]

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Bernie Dyme on April 28th, 2009

On Wednesday morning, April 22nd, the news wires lit up with the story of the death of David Kellerman, the acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac.  He was 41 years old and a 16 year employee of Freddie Mac who worked his way up in the organization beginning as an analyst.
It is reported that the [...]

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