The Bredeson Group consults to employers and unions on the following initiatives and issues:

  • Employee assistance programs (EAPs) and member assistance programs (MAPs)
  • Health promotion, patient advocate and demand management programs
  • Work/life, flexibility and work re-design initiatives
  • Drug-free workplace programs and policies
  • Managed behavioral health care
  • Managed medical care, demand management and consumer advocacy
  • Workplace and personal stress
  • Substance abuse
  • People management competencies
  • Customer service


We are involved with any or all stages of the implementation cycle:

  • Needs assessment
  • Marketing strategy development
  • Planning
  • Implementation
  • Communications strategy and writing
  • Development of quality and customer service measures
  • Evaluation


Additionally, our content knowledge and many years of corporate experience enable us to consult to workplace employee assistance, health promotion, work/life, training, medical education, and human resources vendors and consultants on product development and market positioning.

The following representative engagements have been completed by the Bredeson Group:

  • An employer wishes to develop an integrated EAP and work/life program
  • A union seeks assistance in implementing a managed care program that both saves money and is attractive to its members
  • A hospital needs help restructuring its behavioral health care services for the managed care marketplace
  • A public utility needs help integrating health promotion into its medical and disability benefits
  • A manufacturing company wants to assess the quality of its health maintenance organizations
  • A pharmaceutical firm would like to market disease management programs to employers
  • A work/life vender wishes to provide on-line consulting to benefits and human resource managers
  • A public health department seeks customer service consulting to establish service standards

A few of our happy customers had this to say about our consulting services:

  • "Thanks so much for your invaluable assistance!"
  • "This looks FANTASTIC!!! ….. I love it! You are GREAT!"
  • “Thanks in large part to your assistance we have established a culture that recognizes the importance of our customers and the value of being nice!”
  • “I think the success of this program can be traced to the excellent start through your guidance and training.”