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 REGISTER NOW 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 employees;it’s good…
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 REGISTER NOW 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 many…
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…
If you want to run a more effective workplace wellbeing initiative in 2026, start here Author: Nicholas Layne What is the future of workplace wellbeing? This is the question we ask ourselves each year, seeking to align our own strategies with the changing landscape and emerging empirical evidence. In 2026, a convergence of structural forces such as demographic shifts, technological acceleration, economic volatility, and…
2026 Workplace Wellbeing Initiative Trends Initiative Chair: Jessica Grossmeier, Author, Speaker, Researcher, Jessica Grossmeier Consulting, United States Initiative Vice-Chair: Ellenit Serrano, Advisor, Coach, Founder, Yoga Instructor, United States From Uncertainty to Readiness How economic uncertainty, AI Acceleration, work intensification and demographic change are redesigning work. In 2026, workplace wellbeing is shaped by organizational readiness enabled through enterprise infrastructure. Converging structural forces—demographic shifts, technological acceleration, economic volatility…
Emotional Regulation as Preventive Health: A Missing Piece by Natalie Grinvalds, MPH, PhD, BS, CHES Introduction Despite significant investment in workplace wellbeing initiatives, many organizations continue to see rising burnout, disengagement, and stress-related absence. This points to a key gap in many strategies: limited attention to how employees respond emotionally to workplace stressors. Emotional regulation, the ability to manage and respond to emotional experiences in…
