Emma Tekstra | Get Off Pharma

Emma is an actuary, corporate executive, author, and mother. She’s on a mission to dismantle the illusion of health sold by today’s profit-driven healthcare system. A global employee benefits leader turned outspoken advocate for functional medicine, Emma spent over 25 years consulting with Fortune 500 employers on health and HR strategies—designing benefits programs across continents, driving research, and innovating technologies that bridged the gap between data and human wellbeing. 

Emma’s work exposes a hard truth: our healthcare system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed. Built to sustain chronic disease and pharmaceutical dependency, it fails to deliver real health. 

Here Emma shares information to help HR and Benefits Leaders as well as individuals effect real change: shift the paradigm from a Pharma-First approach to healthcare to a Wellness-First approach, and slash healthcare spending in the process.