Connecting Wellness and Wellbeing Frameworks to Help People Thrive Author: Reena U. Sheth, MBA The workplace is one of the places where personal wellness is either supported or constrained every single day. That is the premise connecting two frameworks now shaping the wellness conversation: World Wellness Weekend’s Five Pillars of Wellness, and the Global Wellness Institute Workplace Wellbeing Initiative’s (WWI) newly released Workplace Wellbeing Strategic…
Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Introduces a New Strategic Framework for Advancing Employee Wellbeing Developed by members of the Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Employers are dealing with a workforce under real strain. Burnout, disconnection, and rising mental health risks are cutting into performance, and the biggest opportunity for most organizations is treating wellbeing as an investment, not just a cost to contain. The number that matters more is…
Psychological Health Is Health and Safety: A Human Sustainability Approach Author: Emily Pearson, Founder, CEO and Author It is a question that deserves far more attention than it gets: if employers have had a duty to protect the health, safety and welfare of employees for decades, why has work-related stress sat so far outside mainstream health and safety practice? It is not a small question,…
Becoming An Employer of Choice: How Wellbeing Creates Business Value September 9, 2026, 10AM-11AM EDT, 3PM-4PM BST | Hosted by GWI Workplace Wellbeing Initiative THIS WEBINAR HAS CONCLUDED Description: As organizations face mounting pressure to cut costs, workplace wellbeing efforts are often the first to go. Yet the most forward-thinking companies are taking the opposite approach: recognizing that supporting their people isn’t just good for…
From Perk to Strategy: A New Framework for Workplace Wellbeing September 9, 2026, 5PM-6PM EDT, 10PM-11PM BST | Hosted by GWI Workplace Wellbeing Initiative THIS WEBINAR HAS CONCLUDED Description: Workplace wellbeing isn’t a stand-alone program. It’s the result of how an organization is designed, led, and operated. Most organizations say they support employee wellbeing. Far fewer have a coherent strategy supporting their efforts, which is…
Why Systems-Level Lifestyle Medicine Is a Performance Strategy, Not a Perk Author: Natalie Grinvalds, PhD, MPH, CHES Most employee benefits portals offer the same things: a meditation app, a resilience webinar, a step challenge, a lunchtime yoga class. These are the tools companies reach for to support wellbeing, and employees are expected to use them to cope with their jobs. This piece asks whether systems-level…
