Dr. Derr is a recognized expert in organization leadership, workplace behavior, behavioral health, and healthcare benefits with over 40 years of experience. He is currently President of Integrated Human Solutions, a consulting consortium bringing together seasoned health and operational experts in behavioral health, organizational leadership, and resiliency . He serves as the MBHO Thought Leader Facilitator for the National Behavioral Consortium, a behavioral health non-profit association of Employee Assistance and Managed Behavioral Health innovators dedicated to improving employee wellbeing and setting the standards for workforce support.
Prior to forming Integrated Human Solutions, he served in executive roles at America’s top three health insurance companies’ Anthem BCBS Government Services, United Healthcare’s Optum behavioral health subsidiary, and Aetna. As the Staff VP for Anthem Behavioral Health’s Medicaid division, he oversaw BH service delivery for 19 state Medicaid contracts, improving metrics and outcomes. As Sr. VP with Optum Health he lead the development of Optum’s Global Wellbeing and health integration, As the Assistant VP of behavioral health at Aetna, he grew the global Employee Assistance and Behavioral Change programs, from covering 500,000 members to over 22 Million lives over a 5 year period. He led Aetna in becoming the first to successfully incorporate telephonic depression and alcohol SBIRT into all services and has presented and published globally on the use of SBIRT for Alcohol misuse. . He provided thought leadership consulting to one of Canada’s top 10 e-health companies for their award winning digital mental health tool.
Prior to joining Aetna, Dennis was a contracted government executive and project officer engaged to redesign and management of the behavioral workplace improvement effort at the United States Postal Service, covering over 800,000 employees. His leadership during 9-11, the USPS anthrax incident, and the devastating effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita was recognized by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the prestigious Carter Center in Atlanta and The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress at the Uniformed Services University of the Armed Forces Health Sciences. He served as Global Director of Workplace Specialty Health Services at Mobil Oil, for 10 years and was EAP Director in the Bell System for Michigan Bell for 13 years. He has provided consulting regarding the impact of benefit change, workplace human behavior and organizational leadership to Global Fortune 500 companies and domestic and foreign government leaders globally
His publications have appeared in Journal of Addictions, Benefit News, Personnel Management Today, EAP Digest, EAP Exchange, Behavioral Health Management, Journal of Occupational Health & Safety, and The Journal of Employee Assistance, as well as numerous research and global conference proceedings. He is the co-author of two books, “ Personal Success in a Team Environment” and Building “Personal Resiliency; A Simple Book of Practice for Living a Life of Resiliency”.