Dr Toby Ford

Dr Toby Ford's Biography

Dr Toby Ford has been a leader in corporate health for more than two decades and has helped organisations and their executives and staff - across countries and industries - through their unique executive and employee health checks and preventative methods, and on-going wellbeing programs. Toby’s clients span the mining, resource and construction industries through to government departments and professional service firms.

Toby is a leading expert in the area of corporate health risk management. After graduating from the University of Queensland Medical School, Toby spent time as a Flying Doctor and in general practice. An interest in the prevention of illness, early screening and detection were pursued in the USA and the UK, giving a good grounding in many facets of worksite health.

In 1990 Toby was a founding partner of Brisbane’s first leading corporate health provider and branched out in 2001 to establish Ford Health.

Toby Ford is also Director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Senior Medical Examiner, Life Insurance and Actuarial Medicine, Senior Medical Examiner, Queensland Coal Board, and Visiting Medical Officer to several hospitals in Brisbane.  He is a nationally acknowledged speaker and medical practitioner on health, lifestyle, stress and motivation.

Toby Ford delivers proactive health management programs to improve the performance of individuals and organisations. His aim is to help employees identify and address their own health risks and support them to make change by overcoming obstacles that prevent them from realising their full potential.

Toby’s Corporate Health programs are proactive and tailored to specific business needs.   Firstly, we assist employees to identify their own health risks. We then support and enable them to make changes to improve their own health with information, tools and advice.   Along the way we measure and track the program to monitor its success. The results are improved health and wellbeing in the workplace. Ford Health offers a number of services designed to suit the needs of different workgroups.

Dr Toby Ford presents many keynotes, workshops, starter sessions for conferences, company retreats and staff development programs on health risk programming in workplaces. With various television, radio and conference presentations he promotes the virtues of maintaining quality of working life, lifestyle and wellbeing.

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