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Cover Story 14 January 2017 BestDriverJOBS www.bestdriverjobs.com E arlier this year, Pi Ohio execu ve Jim Fields talked to a neighbor who works for the University of Pi sburgh. The neighbor wanted to introduce him to a colleague, Dr. Carrie Leana, a professor of organizational behavior and management at the Katz Graduate School of Business. Leana is a renowned expert on how financial stress impacts the cognitive skills and performance of workers. Fields was interested to see where this might lead. "We knew that we had some chal- lenges with the personal finances of our employees, just from anecdotal things that we would have discussions with them about," says Fields, the chief oper- ating officer of Pitt Ohio. Brian McGuire, vice president of human resources at Pitt Ohio, saw an op- portunity as well, especially with driver safety performance. "Anytime you have a stressed or dis- tracted driver they are not going to be as by Aaron Huff Research leads Pi Ohio to create emergency savings plan for drivers, employees