Eric Parmenter PHD

Management, Entrepreneurship & Marketing

Adjunct Faculty

Biography

Eric Parmenter is an Adjunct Professor of Business in the College of Business. He also serves as the Vice President of Sales, leading the health system industry vertical at Quantum Health. He is established as a national expert on employee benefits, behavioral economics and psychology. A consultant with deep experience in health plan strategy, design, preventive care, and productivity and behavioral economics, Eric is a seasoned health tech executive. A former executive at Collective Health, Evolent Health, and a Principal with Towers Watson, he has worked in the employee benefits business for 30-plus years as an advisor to midsize, large and health system clients.

Eric is an award-winning author of the book STOP: 21 STOPs to Reduce Stress and Enhance Joy and has authored more than 25 articles on employee benefit topics including “Fixing the Broken Triangle,” “Healthcare Benefit Crisis—Ten Years Later” in 2015, “Choice Architecture—a Tool for Ratcheting up Benefit and Wellness Results,” “eACOs—The Health Plan of the Future” and “Healthcare Benefit Crisis.” He is a member of several “Who’s Who” lists for business executives.

Eric graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.A. in Psychology and earned his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Eric is the founding President of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists.

Eric lives in Columbia, Tennessee, with his wife Sherry and enjoys travel related to history, architecture and baseball. Together, Eric and Sherry have seven children and twelve grandchildren. He has been a volunteer docent for the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust and his church.

Academic Degree

Ph.D. in Business Psychology, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth School of Business
B.A. in Psychology, University of Illinois