William Boyd Baun has more than 32 years’ experience in worksite health promotion management/programming and directs the Wellness program at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre.
William serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Wellness Institute, Houston Wellness Association, International Association of Worksite Health Promotion, and CAN DO Houston. The past two years he has chaired the Houston Mayor’s Wellness Council. He was a member of the startup wellness team at Tenneco (1981) and managed the program till 1996. While at Tenneco he planned and initiated more than 25 health promotion/fitness programs in a variety of white and blue-collar settings.
In the early 90′s he teamed up with Dr. Nell Gottlieb, University of Texas at Austin, to develop a remote site health promotion model that is now utilized by many global companies. This model was used by Tenneco to implement the Pipeline to Health program at 110 gas compressor sites and by the American Cancer Society’s Worksite Team to implement more than 1,500 health promotion programs in Texas. He has a B.S. in Economics/Government from Louisiana State University, a Master’s degree from the University of North Texas in Exercise Science, and doctoral work in Human Organizational Systems from the Fielding Institute