Shown are the Live Well Kosciusko Career Purpose Committee members, program mentors and program participants celebrating the completion of the first Clock Into Potential program session on Tuesday, March 14. From left: Front — Live Well President and CEO Lisa Harman, program participant Joe Curcio, Live Well Board Member and Program Mentor Marlene Betances, Live Well Coordinator Jessica Camarena, Career Purpose Committee Member Leo Patino, and Career Purpose Committee Member Amanda Eshelman; back — Program Mentor Karen Erba, Program Mentor Chris Fancil, program participants Tim Banes and Diana Diaz Barriga, Oakley the dog, Career Purpose Committee Member Diane Quance and Career Purpose Committee Member Allyn Decker.

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By Caleigh Byrer
InkFreeNews

WARSAW — Live Well Kosciusko held a celebration dinner to reflect on a successful first cohort of their Clock Into Potential program on Tuesday, March 14.

Live Well is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of the health and well-being of Kosciusko County residents. The Clock Into Potential program is a part of their healthy community initiative and was created and intended to ensure members of the community are thriving in their personal and professional lives specifically.

The program consisted of three monthly workshops and one-on-one coaching from a mentor to help participants determine the areas they can grow in, develop a better understanding of themselves and their strengths and develop fiscal responsibility and habits to set them up for financial success and maximize their network within the county.

Between September and October 2022, 5,000 Gallup well-being surveys were distributed in Kosciusko County as an effort to evaluate how residents felt about their physical, financial and professional standing, fulfillment of their purpose and their place in the community.

Twenty-six percent of survey recipients responded, which revealed when compared to 156 metro surveys, Kosciusko County scored 20th in the country. Live Well President and CEO Lisa Hartman stated although the survey reflected “good” statistics, Live Well wanted to create an initiative that would improve them further.

Hartman also expressed her gratitude for the role many local businesses played in the startup of the program as they contributed to the cost of the Gallup survey.

Amanda Eshelman, HR leader of Global IT at Zimmer Biomet and Live Well Career Purpose Committee member, spoke at the event.

“As we were exploring the data (from the survey), this program kind of revealed itself to us through the needs of the community,” she said. “We looked at our collective talents and what we had experience doing and came up with this curriculum.”

Eshelman was responsible for the introduction of Discovery Insights to the program, which is a type of personality test that was used in one of the workshops dedicated to relationships and community involvement.

“One of the things I love about Insights is that it helps us see, at a deeper level, that people naturally see the world differently,” she said. “When you can figure out where you come from a certain place and why you come from a certain place, you learn to identify why and how other people tend to view the world.”

The participants were asked for feedback as it was the first session of the program. They all expressed they enjoyed the personality test, had meaningful breakthroughs with their mentors and were able to make changes in their lives, both small and large, that have benefitted them immensely.

Program Mentor Karen Erba who attended the dinner stated, “Understanding your purpose and the greater meaning is really what drive everything in your life, so it was really powerful to give the mentors and mentees the opportunity to really examine that.”

The Live Well Career Purpose Committee stated they plan to hold another session of Clock Into Potential in the future and expressed their gratitude to all the volunteer mentors from the community.