"Culture Change and Wellbeing in Veterinary Medicine," presented by Makenzie Peterson, director for wellbeing at the AAVMC, as part of the CVM Wellbeing Week 2021.

Improving practice culture is a long, arduous process, but can significantly improve retention, morale and diminishes workplace burnout. This workshop will cover the top models for organizational culture change, how to incorporate multiple stakeholder needs and how to navigate barriers to change such as closed attitudes, counterproductive change dynamics and lack of expertise. Participants will leave with an awareness and an intellectual framework to think more critically about how to achieve a culture of wellbeing in their environment and build more collective resilience in veterinary medicine.