In 2023 the Initiative for the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are producing a series of UN SDGs in Action, multimedia micro-papers which will each demonstrate how businesses and organizations are successfully aligning their commitment to a positive 2030 result. The United Nations Sustainable Development goals are written and devised to bring solutions for some of the world’s biggest and most critical issues. We…
NEW GWI RESEARCH REPORT “Health, Happiness, and the Wellness Economy: An Empirical Analysis” The first-ever data on how spend in each wellness sector impacts happiness and health outcomes Global Wellness Institute (GWI) researchers unveiled the first global analysis of the relationship between wellness spending at the national level and happiness and health outcomes. Part of the GWI Wellness Policy Series that began with the groundbreaking Defining Wellness Policy report issued…
Revisiting Bereavement & Grief in the Workplace The Dying Well Initiative’s Trend #5 for the year 2022 was, “A refocus on bereavement leave policies in workplace bereavement.” Better late than never, we recently hosted a webinar exploring this important topic, which is more pressing than ever following the global pandemic. With the significant loss and grief that was wrought by COVID-19, alongside population aging, there…
New Global Wellness Trends Report To Be Released January 31 at the Annual GWS/GWI Press Event The Global Wellness Summit’s annual trends report, The Future of Wellness, has garnered a reputation for predicting billion-dollar new sectors. Preorder the 2023 Future of Wellness global trends report to see what’s next. The Future of Wellness is the only wellness forecast that draws from the insights of the renowned economists, medical and wellness professionals,…
Social Impact Initiative 2020 Trends TREND 1: Transparency is so in Openness is not just a must-have; it is expected by every stakeholder. Every aspect of transparency, from being your true self at work to openly reporting progress against your impact goals, is expected of the new corporate citizen. TREND 2: Making time to do good: an everyday expectation The workforce in 2020 will be…
Social Impact Initiative 2021 Trends Corporate Social Responsibility TREND 1: CSR is an Expectation Not a “Nice to Have” Corporate social responsibility is becoming a greater expectation rather than an added benefit to a company’s value proposition. TREND 2: Putting Investments to Work in a Way That Truly Matters Impact investing is the one sector of venture capital that has been growing exponentially. TREND 3: Purpose…
