Morning Session

Busy does not always equal productive. Push the pace of your organization’s productivity by solving the busyness problem with a morning routine anchored in agile practices and sipping tea! Ignite your morning with Brazilian Chocolate Mate and a customized morning routine you can introduce to your organization immediately. The routine will prepare your team to:

• Increasing your focus and daily productivity
• Learning the skills to help you deal with distractions, stress, and toxic energy
• Starting your day with a clear and focused mind

Use promo code WELCOATEA for 5% off your first Tea Travel Set at tearado.tech.

About Nicole Tirado // Nicole is a certified SCRUM Master and Naturopath. She believes loose leaf tea is the gateway drug to healthier, more productive living. She leads Tearado Tech where they are democratizing loose leaf tea with the first Smart Tea Cup and solving the busyness problem. She began her professional career managing $10M in sales at the largest Consumer Packaged Goods corporation in the tobacco sector—Altria Group (formerly Phillip Morris USA). Nicole is a mom to a beautiful 1-year-old and calls South Florida home. When she isn’t working she is gardening, composting, meal prepping and concocting new plant based meals for her and Phoenix to enjoy.

Intensive Descriptions

If your employees had one wish to transform any aspect of their lives, what do you think they would wish for? If we’re honest, don’t we all want to be STRONGER in some area of our lives? What if we were to tell you that your employees and your organization could get stronger in only 8 minutes a day? We distilled the best positive psychology modalities, strength based coaching methods, physical fitness training, goal setting, mindfulness and personal development strategies into an 8-minute daily ritual your employees can easily learn and apply in the convenience of their everyday lives. It’s time for a new way of doing fitness and wellness.

We call it Daily STRONGER©: Transformation at The Speed of Life. Daily STRONGER© is a one-of-a-kind, 8-minute, holistic, strength-based coaching system that gives your organization a routine competitive advantage.

In this interactive and engaging workshop you will understand:

• The value of strength based coaching: Discover the latest research on the potential of Strength Based Coaching and the impact it can have on your organization.
• How to spot signature strengths: Uncover how to help others reveal their innate strengths with assessment tools, questions, and exercises to empower individuals to live their best lives.
• Putting strengths to work: Learn pragmatic 8-minute holistic routines to effectively strengthen individuals and teams at work.
• The Daily STRONGER© experiment: Leave this training with simple, practical tools and next steps to test the Daily STRONGER© approach in a fun 10-day challenge.

85% of U.S. organizations offer wellness, but over 80% of eligible employees are opting out. It doesn’t have to be this way. Learn about a novel way that you can jump start your wellness initiatives by activating managers to become “multipliers” of well-being. After sharing discoveries from a cutting edge “Managers on the Move” leadership development program, Laura will walk you through a step-by-step template you can apply to spark a manager-led movement of well-being in your own organization.

Here’s what you’ll uncover in this exciting and inspirational workshop:

• Explore the research demonstrating why managers are likely the primary contributors toward employee engagement in wellness.
• Distinguish between managers acting as a “multipliers” versus “gatekeepers.”
• Learn about the three essentials – Do, Speak, Create – that you can employ to activate managers in your organization to become multipliers of wellness.
• Gain insights from specific case studies and examples to get a better sense of things you can do immediately to activate your managers.
• Come away with a step-by-step template to successfully launch a manager-driven movement of wellness in your organization.

Want a company culture that allows your employees to be their best and do their best work? Unintentionally, many companies have policies, org charts, office spaces, siloes and job roles that get the way of people practicing the habits that create wellbeing, fulfillment, safety and high performance. Habits at Work has spent the last decade researching which habits matter most. We’ve partnered with companies of all shapes and sizes to intentionally design work in support of employees becoming the best versions of themselves – at work and in life.

Join us to learn the simple, actionable framework for designing your culture, fostering positive habits, empowering your people to thrive and improving business performance!

• Engage in a highly interactive experience created by experts in habit change and organization design
• Learn how organizations like yours have implemented this framework to reduce turnover, improve employee engagement and empower their people
• Collaborate in small teams to understand the human-centered design process
• Define the desired employee behaviors you’d like to design into your culture
• Learn about the Four Contexts that help or hinder habit change: Self, Social, Spaces and Systems
• Identify potential roadblocks or barriers within each of the Four Contexts that stand in the way of habit change
• Leverage the Context Design framework to design the conditions of your culture in support of desired employee habits
• Interact with like-minded professionals in a fun, hands on session featuring peer collaboration and learning
• Leave with a habit change experiment to immediately implement at your company

Keynote Presentations

This “aha” producing keynote focuses on the evolution of mental health in the workplace and how to create supportive stigma-free environments that save lives! Together, we apply the power of peer-to-peer support to increase employee engagement and decrease workplace anxiety. Walk away with tools and strategies to start and sustain an effective mental wellness movement in your organization.

Coronary artery disease is virtually non-existent in cultures which thrive on plant-based nutrition. Similarly, patients with coronary artery disease who transition totally to plant-based foods may halt and selectively reverse their disease. What do we as health promotion professionals need to understand about this groundbreaking approach to the prevention and reversal of disease? Learn how, through years of clinical application, research and strategy utilizing whole food, plant-based nutrition, Dr. Esselstyn’s methods are now proving to halt and even reverse heart disease and many chronic illnesses.

Culture change can seem intimidating. However it does not always need to be an intimidating and costly process. This session will share several research-based interventions to apply right away in your organization.

Organizations face a growing health cost crisis that threatens to swallow profits and drain the vitality of their workforce unless we adopt a radically different approach to workplace health and well-being. The Cleveland Clinic predicts costs will double by 2025 if a radical shift does not happen soon, creating both economic and social disruption. Rex Miller addresses this challenge with research by more than 100 corporate leaders and experts over a two-year project.

When it gets harder to love, let’s love harder. – Van Jones. This quote embodies everything Kim stands for. In the nearly 10 years she’s spent working alongside Simon Sinek, Kim has met, collaborated with and been mentored by many great leaders. Her big takeaway is that all great leaders have one thing in common: love is the core tenet on which they stand.

Delivered with passion and humor, you’ll understand stress fatigue and burnout as a spectrum disorder that follows a pattern that can be prevented at any point. We will explore the concept of moral injury and break down the process leading to this crisis into three stages: Adaptation to Life Event Stress, Altered Perspective or Mindset, and Diminished Motivation and Energy. Identify and review the indicators of growing problems with stress management and the keys to shedding stress successfully. Learn about the Four Horseman of Resilience (four profound truths about resilience) and discuss the secret of sustained resilience. True stories and examples are used throughout to make concepts like the neurology of burnout simple and relevant.

Join me on a stroll through the mysterious landscape of influence science. I’ll give you a map and guide you through your personal journey to joyful health. You’ll set off from the Islands of Mindset, linger a while at the Mountains of Mentors, ski through the Moguls of new Muscles, and frolic in the Magic of Moments. At each of these stops, you’ll learn about the Habits that make the biggest positive difference to human performance, in life and at work. More importantly, we’ll explore the best ways to make these habits easy to start, and impossible to quit!

Imperative has led the largest global research on the science of what generates—and how to measure—individual purpose. In this interactive keynote, co-founder Arthur Woods will share Imperative’s latest discoveries and how leading organizations and practitioners are applying them to transform the way they connect, collaborate and chart their direction. You’re invited to access to Imperative’s Purpose Profile as part of your experience to reach your own North Star.

Work has been defined in many ways over the years: a contract, a transaction, a value exchange. This led to describing humans as capital and designing systems that treat people like assets to be managed and optimized. Is it any wonder that employees’ feeling of engagement within these organizations continues to drop? It doesn’t feel good to be treated like an investment to be maximized. To reverse this trend requires that we understand what work is for employees, a relationship, and a critically important one. Research has shown us that employees crave the same things from work that they do from other important relationships in their lives: appreciation, acceptance, communication, commitment, and support. Come explore how designing the employee experience through the lens of a healthy relationship will focus your employee engagement efforts for greater impact.

If you want to predict how happy and healthy someone is, find out about their social networks. Having strong relationships has been shown to be one of the greatest predictors of health and overall wellbeing as it strengthens the immune system, extends life expectancy, improves self-worth, increases a sense of purpose and helps to foster joy. We are wired to interact and be intertwined with others, to give and take and to find a place to belong. Join us as we explore stories of life change that were built through community and take away ideas that will impact your life and those around you.

The pace of work and rising stress in the workplace seems difficult to slow down, much less reverse. Activities and investments in employees that once seemed discretionary and “nice-to-have” are now key to supporting performance and engagement and reducing stress. Cory will share anecdotes of what individuals and companies are doing to address these challenges and why now is the best time to step forward as a leader for emotional and mental wellbeing in one’s organization.

We really don’t understand the lives that most Americans live. To improve employee health, we must learn about their barriers. What gets in the way of living a healthy life? Social determinants of health include things like access to healthy food, clean drinking water, reliable transportation, access to good education, safe housing, employment opportunities, and access to good health care. Wellbeing begins where we live, learn, work and play. It starts with our families, in our schools, our neighborhoods and at our worksites. To address employee wellbeing, our efforts must extend into the community. Improving health and wellbeing is not about a program, it is about building a movement.

We often talk about the “glass ceiling,” but too often avoid the conversation around the challenges women and mothers face in the workplace, or the “maternal wall.” The maternal wall is one of the more prevalent biases in our society, stemming from stereotypes that link women with the lack of competence and commitment once they have children. Research has found that mothers are 79% less likely to be hired; 50% less likely to be promoted; make 20% less in salary for the same position; and held to higher performance standards than their peers. It is time to shift our mindset, disrupt the old paradigms, and architect innovative solutions to better support our moms in this modern era.

A growing number of organizations are designing business models that deeply commit to social impact, with a belief that having a higher purpose leads to higher profits. But wait, there’s more! Being socially responsible can also improve recruitment, retention and the overall health of employees. In this session social impact experts will draw direct links between socially responsible business practices (including earth friendly facilities and charitable giving) and gains in employee wellness. They will also expand how you think about wellness, while offering practical tips and tools for examining your organization’s social impact and advancing cross-departmental conversations that link doing well and doing good.

WELCOA’s vision is to pave a way for employee wellness and organizational cultures by quantifying the real value of truly happy and healthy humans. WELCOA’s purpose is driven by the people impacted by workplace wellness programs. We have begun to start telling a story about choice, thriving in work and in life, tapping into things that really matter to people. We continue to become better marketers of a life that really delivers what your employees need to succeed. It’s not the numbers and the prescriptive guidelines that carry the weight of the scale. It’s all about achieving balance on the seesaw of your employees lifestyle behaviors.

Concurrent Workshop Sessions

Sharpen your skills for designing and delivering engaging results-oriented wellness initiatives. You will be introduced to WELCOA’s Seven Benchmark approach to building great worksite wellness programs. Gain NEW knowledge, confidence and materials necessary to be successful. You will understand the role that worksite wellness approaches have within a business or organization, receive an overview of WELCOA’s Well Workplace Checklist and WELCOA’s Seven Benchmarks as tools you can use.

Plant-based nutrition could be the seismic revolution in health which can end chronic disease. By cooking without oil and loading your plate with beans, lentils, greens and a rainbow of vegetables you can boost energy, lower your blood pressure and cholesterol and preserve our planet. In this interactive “train-the-trainer” workshop you’ll learn how to pass on the skills needed to shop, prepare, and LOVE plant-based food at your organization.

Get ready to immerse yourself in the concept of what constitutes a “voluntary” workplace wellness program. The concept of voluntariness is at the heart of the forthcoming changes to the ADA and GINA incentive rules that went into effect on January 1st, 2018. You’ll learn how legal sources define “voluntariness” in the context of workplace wellness programs, how employers can compromise the voluntary nature of workplace wellness programs, and the penalties for noncompliance with voluntariness requirements. To help internalize these legal concepts, you will role play in a variety of situations that may impact an employee’s perception of whether a workplace wellness program is voluntary under the ADA or GINA.

Employees from every demographic segment and salary classification are struggling with their finances. The resulting financial “distress” is impacting employee productivity, presenteeism and engagement in critical employee benefits programs and wellness initiatives at the workplace. In this session you will receive actionable ideas to improve employee financial health and discover how employee benefits and wellness programs can be enhanced by a financially engaged workforce.

There are “nudges” in the built environment all around us that drive our behavior. This presentation shares some of the ways the built environment can positively affect decisions we make about our health. What we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel impacts our actions—and emerging research in urban planning, occupational health, and behavioral science validates this. Leigh will share findings from her recently released book, “The Healthy Workplace,” including ways space can encourage movement, healthy eating habits, reduce stress and improve well-being.   Leigh will sign books after her presentation.

Whether it’s a diet, a fitness plan, or a mindfulness initiative, long-term success with any wellness program requires some level of change—at the individual and group level. But the real impact happens when the organization stops thinking in terms of “wellness programs,” and invests instead in a “culture of wellness”. Join Parneet and Meghna for a working session on seeding real and lasting change. Participants will leave this 90-minute session with next steps to set their organization on the path to a culture of wellness.