Health-e Pro Webinars

Expert-led school nutrition webinars for K-12 professionals
Health-e Pro webinar slide titled “Telling Your Story” with bullet points on communicating effectively, crafting authentic messages, connecting, and inspiring action, alongside an open book graphic.

Telling Your Story with Joe Urban

During this webinar you will learn why you need to take control of your story, who your audience is, what elements you want to highlight, and when and how to make it compelling. We will also provide you the tools you need to be confident when taking the next step–including a document template that you can populate with your key data points for clear and professional presentation to your leadership team.

Key Communication Concepts: Conflict Resolution

This webinar promises to provide resources to transform the way you lead and communicate within your organization’s food service program. You will gain confidence in handling challenging discussions, turning potential conflicts into opportunities for growth and improvement. You will elevate your ability to communicate effectively with staff, leading to better teamwork and smoother implementation of new initiatives.

Health-e Pro webinar slide titled “Meet the Presenter” featuring David Dowling, JD, MDR, with a photo and biographical details about his work in mediation, dispute resolution, and education.
Health-e Pro Financial Fitness webinar overview slide listing agenda topics including introductions, income and expenses, planning, resources, cycle menus and analysis, assurance of delivery, and next steps, with illustrated food characters.

Financial Fitness 2024

This engaging session is designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary for efficient financial planning and management in Child Nutrition. You’ll learn how to take your program’s financial health to the next level as we dive into the essentials of financial planning, akin to balancing a healthy diet. Our presentation will guide you through evaluating costs, leveraging technology, and making informed decisions for your program’s financial well-being.

Menu Engineering Made Simple

Are you on a mission to create an outstanding school food program? The answer lies in mastering Menu Optimization, and we’ve got the perfect guide! Health-e Pro is excited to invite you to a webinar featuring *the* trailblazer in school food innovation, Joe Urban of School Food Rocks. Discover the secrets behind crafting a menu that’s both appealing to students and profitable for schools.

Health-e Pro Menu Engineering Made Simple webinar slide titled “Profitable School Food Programs” explaining how investing in higher quality food can increase participation and support student health, with a muffin illustration.
Health-e Pro webinar slide from “Recipes Galore” asking participants to share their favorite school recipes, highlighting culinary creativity in K-12 menu planning with fruit and vegetable illustrations.

Recipes Galore

Culinary creativity is the cornerstone of K-12 menu development. Yet, occasionally, we encounter a chef’s block. How do we jumpstart our innovative spirit again? Get ready to embark on a culinary journey designed especially with K-12 FSDs and menu planners in mind. We invite you to join us for an upcoming webinar with Melissa Manning of My School RD, where we will dive deep into the world of school menu planning and recipe sourcing to reignite your creative spark.

What I Wish I’d Known When I Started

The road to professional excellence is often paved with lessons learned the hard way. How valuable would it be to learn those lessons now? We invite you to a special webinar with Anna Apoian, the 2021 SNA Food Service Director of the year, as she shares her wealth of knowledge with us.

Health-e Pro webinar slide from “What I Wish I’d Known When I Started” discussing compliance and fiduciary responsibilities in school nutrition programs, presented by Anna Apoian, with a report cover image shown.
Health-e Pro webinar slide titled “Who is DateCodeGenie?” introducing the DateCodeGenie labeling system used in school nutrition programs, with a product image and overview of label printing features.

DateCodeGenie

We’ll discuss how label printing can help you save time, money, and simplify your processes. We’ll cover the seamless integration between Health-e Pro and DateCodeGenie, so you can see how labels can be printed in seconds–directly from your Health-e Pro menu!

How To Re-Invest In Your Program

Ron Jones shared his wealth of knowledge and experience from decades in foodservice. Learn how Ron and his team turned the Spartanburg District program around to be profitable using data. Access the full webinar recording, presentation slides, and more!

Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Profitable Programs: How to Re-invest in Your Program 2023,” featuring Ron Jones of Spartanburg District 6 in South Carolina.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Introducing Rise Vision: #1 Digital Signage Software Solution,” featuring presenters JR Kuchta and Kari Day.

Rise Vision Digital Signage

Learn from Rise Vision and Health-e Pro how quickly and easily you can get set up with Digital Signage, with easy-to-use templates and software built for the non-technical user.

Marketing Your Program

See what tips and tricks Pisanick Partners and Health-e Pro share to market your program, from learning why foodservice directors are the best-kept secret in food service, to finding an overlooked way to increase participation.

Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Marketing Your Program: How to Increase Participation in Fall 2022,” featuring Maureen Pisanick of Pisanick Partners.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Become a Crediting Wizard” introducing the Meal Crediting webinar for school nutrition programs.

Meal Crediting

Learn more with the full recording and presentation of slides from the webinar. We discussed how crediting can be one of the most challenging parts of child nutrition–but it’s also essential.

Preparing For An Administrative Review

In this webinar with two former state reviewers, you’ll learn tips and tricks to pass an Administrative Review, including specific ways to prepare yourself, your program, and your data for a Review.

Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Preparing for a Review: What You Need to Know,” focused on guidance for preparing for school nutrition program reviews.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Preparing for Your Virtual Site Visit: With LunchAssist,” focused on guidance for school nutrition programs preparing for virtual administrative reviews.

Preparing For Your Virtual Site Visit

After watching this webinar with the experts at LunchAssist, you’ll know the answers to some key questions, like what will menu compliance look like for a virtual site visit? And can we account for supply chain issues?

Meal Crediting

From the experts at ProTeam, you can learn the nitty gritty details of meal crediting, from the methodology behind the USDA school meal programs, to crediting best practices such as what to keep in mind when making substitutions.

Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Crediting in the SBP & NSLP,” focused on meal crediting for school nutrition programs.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Leadership and Followership,” featuring Anna Apoian, SNA Director of the Year, focused on leadership development in school nutrition programs.

Anna Apoian Leadership/Followership

If you’ve ever wondered the interplay between leadership and followership and what traits you have of each to help in your role, this webinar with Anna Apoian, SNA Director of the Year, will both delight and interest you.

Financial Fitness

This 90-minute course helps you better understand your bottom line, from understanding income and expenses to meals per labor hour, we cover all the basics so you can get your finances fit.

Health-e Pro webinar slide titled “Financial Fitness Training Sessions,” introducing training on financial management topics for school nutrition programs, with an illustrated dollar character lifting weights.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “R&R: Rethink & Renew,” focused on Professional Standard 3200 for program management in school nutrition programs.

Rethink & Renew

If you need to refocus and think about your program a little differently, this webinar is for you. With Maureen Pisanick of Pisanick Partners; Mandy Curry of Healthy Kids, Inc.; and Deepa Deshmukh, Inland Empire Foods; we discuss pain points over the past year and how to move forward.

Promote Your Program

How can you better use My School Menus to promote your program? Maureen Pisanick dives into ways to use sidebars, images, and links within My School Menus to make sure you’re getting the word out about your great program.

Health-e Pro webinar slide titled “Utilizing Technology to Promote Your Program,” presented by Maureen Pisanick, RD, LD, with illustrated fruits and vegetables along the bottom.
Health-e Pro webinar slide titled “The Menu Drives Your Business,” using a driving-themed illustration to represent how menu decisions impact school nutrition program operations.

The Menu Drives Your Business

The menu drives everything else in your operation: How many hours can the staff work? What should we charge for a la carte chips? What if we can’t get sausage patties for breakfast? All your decisions come back to how you have planned the menu. In order to drive your program to success through the end of 2020 and beyond, learn how to manage costs, increase participation, and how to piece it all together.

Writing Recipes Right For Child Nutrition

With Health-e Pro’s Linsey LaPlant, walk through writing a recipe for NLSP so you can better understand how to make sure you’re crediting appropriately.

Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Writing Recipes Right for Child Nutrition,” focused on best practices for recipe development in child nutrition programs.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “10 Tips in 15 Minutes,” introducing a short-format professional development session for school nutrition programs.

10 Tips In 15 Minutes

Drawing on their extensive experience in school foodservice, Linsey LaPlant and Renelle Leinbach of Health-e Pro, offer succinct tips and tricks about how to increase participation in your program, while making sure to put some smiles on your kids’ faces.

It’s All About The Menu!

Join Health-e Pro founder Meg Chesley, and Child Nutrition expert Mary Begalle in this webinar. They’ll demonstrate how understanding the menu guides every successful endeavor–from hitting your break-even point, to the logistics involved in introducing a new ramen bar–and how to be sure you’re pulling the right levers to get the results you want.

Health-e Pro webinar slide titled “It’s All About the Menu!” showing a diagram where the menu connects to participation, operations, costs, and key performance indicators in school nutrition programs.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Writing CACFP Recipes Right,” focused on proper recipe development and compliance for CACFP programs.

Writing CACFP Recipes Right

Walk through how to write a recipe for CACFP guidelines so you can better understand how to make sure you’re crediting appropriately, with Health-e Pro’s Linsey LaPlant.

Bring Your Own Questions

You had burning questions, and we had answers. From questions around program design to menu planning and staffing to service, the experts here at Health-e Pro offered answers.

Health-e Pro webinar title slide “BYOQ: Bring Your Own Questions,” introducing an interactive question-and-answer session for school nutrition professionals.
Health-e Pro webinar title slide “Back in Session: Preparing for the Fall,” focused on planning and preparation for the upcoming school nutrition program year.

Back In Session: Preparing For The Fall

Learn how the extension of SSO through the 2021-2022 school year offers you an opportunity to increase both program participation and revenue, and how you can take advantage of that.

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