“ Everyday is a new opportunity to take a small step forward to creating a healthy future”

This is the mission statement of Casey Lehner, founder of “Proactive Wellness LLC”,  and team member at Rebecca Bitzer and Associates. I had the pleasure of interviewing Casey to learn more about her passion for starting Proactive Wellness and her valuable experience at Rebecca Bitzer and Associates. Read along to be inspired by a true entrepreneur in the field of nutrition

The Start

Casey entered the field of nutrition after graduating from Virginia Tech with her degree in dietetics in 2003. She currently holds her DTR (Dietetic Technician Registered) and is working toward becoming certified as a Registered Dietitian (RD). Casey began her nutrition career in food service management and nutrition education. During her experience teaching nutrition lessons to children Casey realized many of the children’s parents either did not know how to, or were not making the effort to care of their own health. When she dug deeper into the issue she discovered that many adults do not make their own health on the back burner, making them poor role models for their children. With childhood obesity and health care costs on the rise it is detrimental that health to be a priority for parents in order to protect the health of our future generations.  Casey established Proactive Wellness in 2007 to reach out to adults in the workplace to in efforts to improve their health, nutrition, and ultimately the quality of their lives.  

Proactive Wellness LLC

Proactive Wellness is a business centered on promoting nutrition education, health and wellness in the corporate arena. By intervening at the worksite Proactive Wellness’s focus is to provide quality, individualized plans to fit health goals and personal needs to their clients.

Joining the RBA team

Casey joined RBA’s nutrition team to learn and gain more experience on individual counseling and personal nutrition consulting from our Nutrition Coach and Registered Dietitian, Shelly Alspaugh. Casey and RBA are a perfect fit, she is able to gain a third party perspective during counseling sessions to help build her skills as a nutrition consoler and she is able to provide insight and resources to help educate the staff at RBA on worksite interventions. Casey confessed that sometimes while running her own company she feels isolated in promoting nutrition education and wellness but at RBA all the health professionals keep her on top of her game and consistently inspire her to learn. She loves how all the students and dietitians at RBA are devoted to helping each other advance in their personal careers.

Resource Contributions

Casey has put together a list of valuable nutrition resources on the following topics:

• Websites for General Nutrition Information
• Resources for Good nutrition
• Diabetes Resources
• Eating Disorder Websites

Each week we will feature a new resource on our blog so stay tuned!