Resources Library

Well Balanced-December 2024

Behaviors such as smoking, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol use are contributors to the onset of many preventable chronic conditions.

Well Balanced-December 2025

These printable, digital resources are perfect for organizational leadership to customize health and wellness communications for their employees. This Well-Balanced resource focuses on holiday stress.

Well Balanced-January 2026

January 2026 Well Balanced resource and toolkit focuses on healthy habits that last.

“What’s Working & What’s Not in Workplace Well-Being Programs” with Returns on Wellbeing Institute

Wellness Alliance studied our highest ranking Well Workplace Award winners to gain a better understanding of what lies underneath their success.

Well Balanced – May 2024

We all have a unique opportunity to help combat the loneliness epidemic by fostering connection and belongingness within our organizations and communities.

Wellness Incentives and Taxes, Cafeteria Plans and HSAs, April 2021

This month’s session will address how wellness programs may impact income taxes.

Well Balanced – May 2022

Raise awareness and educate your employees on the importance of taking care of their mental health as part of their overall well-being. Share the May Well Balanced newsletter throughout your organization.

Employee Facing Resources

Walking 4 Wellness Incentive Campaign

This challenge encourages participants to make walking a part of their daily routine.

Workr Beeing with Patricia Grabarek and Katina Sawyer

Katina & Patricia of Workr Beeing are psychologists that study the relationships between humans and work, and they cannot wait to share with the Wellness Alliance network what data and insights they have gathered to answer these questions and more!

Supporting Parents at Work – Youth Mental Health with Hansa Bhargava and Kee Dunning

In this WELCOA Pulse session, join youth mental health experts Kee Dunning and Dr. Hansa Bhargava as they share the impact of their work with the Well Beings public media health campaign to raise awareness, reduce stigma and discrimination, and change the national conversation around youth mental health.

Well Balanced – April 2024

April marks Stress Awareness Month, highlighting the significant influence of stress on personal well-being and workplace productivity and morale.

Designing A Legally Compliant Wellness Program

Legal expert Barbara Zabawa has written a white paper to help you understand the workplace wellness program laws so you will be on the right path to compliance in the critical area of HRAs and biometric screenings.

Case Studies

CentraState Healthcare System’s Plant Powered Program

CentraState Healthcare System’s Plant Powered program is an innovative healthy eating and weight management program that you can replicate at your organization.

Health Promotion Program Legal Roundtable, March 2021

When it comes to building your worksite wellness program, do you know which types of incentives are permissible, which laws impact wellness program design and implementation, and how health reform, federal guidance and court cases will continue to change the rules for wellness?

Discriminating Against Tobacco Users: What Does the Law Say? Legal Webinar

In this webinar, attendees learned about state and federal laws that impact tobacco discrimination in wellness programs, such as HIPAA, the Affordable Care Act, ERISA and state anti-discrimination laws.

Making Your Move

It’s time to make your move up and out of the benefits shop. Let us help you make your move.

Employee Facing Resources

Well With WELCOA – Team Workout

Start your day motivated and moving with Team WELCOA! Watch and exercise with this 15-minute home workout.

Employee Facing Resources

Travel Wellness Packing List

Employee Facing Resources

Get to Your Destination in a Healthy Way

John Ayo provides helpful advice (based on his experience) that shows business travelers how to stay healthy and productive while on the road, and ensuring that you perform at your best.

Well Balanced – June 2022

Raise awareness and educate your employees on the importance of taking care of their mental health as part of their overall well-being. Share the May Well Balanced newsletter throughout your organization.

Well Balanced – June 2024

The outdoors is the biggest resource for self-care promotion.

Legal Considerations When Hiring Wellness Providers, May 2019

In this session, Barbara Zabawa, focuses on legal considerations when hiring wellness providers with emphasis on why you should care, the scope of practice, the delivery of “medical care” and corporate practice of medicine.

The Nature of Wellness™: Building a Better Inside by Getting Outside

This webinar will address many health and wellness benefits, current research, and practical ways to “nature responsibly”—caring for ourselves and the environment

A New Direction for Full Engagement in Life & Health: Creating Purpose in Life

Do not miss out on the newest research and strategies for wellness programming.

The Addiction Epidemic and its Impact on Employers with Kelly Firesheets

In this WELCOA Pulse, we discuss the addiction epidemic and its impact on the workforce, provide a framework to help participants think of addiction as a biopsychosocial issue, and talk about the challenges of stigma in promoting healthy attitudes about substance use.

Well-Being and Substance Use Resource Guide

This guide includes reputable resources that provide education, training, research, support, guidance, hotlines, information on prevention, treatment, recovery, and more to support you and your employees.

Legal Webinar: Countering Workplace Wellness Bias through Wellness-Legal Partnerships

Workplace wellness programs are often biased against racial, religious and ability diversity. In this webinar, we will highlight how that bias presents itself in typical workplace wellness programs.

Health Promotion Program Legal Updates, May 2021

In this month’s Legal Updates series, attendees will learn about the significance of wellness programs being deemed or part of a health plan.

What Does a ‘Voluntary’ Workplace Wellness Program Mean Anyway? June 2022

In this webinar, Barbara will discuss the laws that use the word voluntary, legal cases in which the word “voluntary” was at issue, and how workplace wellness program designers should really be thinking about that word to avoid violating workplace wellness program laws.

Well Balanced – July 2022

Support your employees with a newsletter that’s full of relevant resources for summer.

Expert Interviews

Designing Legally Compliant Wellness Programs with Barbara Zabawa

Read this expert interview to learn why and how to avoid the number one legal pitfall that has gotten other programs in trouble.

Mental Health Parity Law for Employers, March 2022

Wellness Alliance has partnered with Wellness Law Attorney, Barbara Zabawa, to provide live quarterly webinars guiding participants on best practices when it comes to the legal landscape of your wellness program.

Well Balanced – April 2022

Raise awareness and educate your employees on the importance of taking care of their mental health as part of their overall well-being. Share the April Well Balanced newsletter throughout your organization.

Case Studies

CentraState Healthcare System’s Plant Powered Program Proposal

Review CentraState Healthcare System’s Plant Powered program proposal to help you create your own proposal to launch an initiative at your workplace.

Toolkits

Health Coaching Legal Guidance, June 2020

In this session, Barbara Zabawa and her guest, Dr. JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek, will explore the different legal and ethical issues that arise in a typical health and wellness coach practice, provide some tips to stay compliant, and provide an opportunity for attendees to ask compliance-related questions.

Toolkits

Legalities of Health Coaching, June 2021

In this month’s webinar, attendees will learn about the legal landscape faced by health and wellness coaches.

Toolkits

Setting the Contexts for Healthy Change with Colin Bullen and Hanlie Van Wyk

Understand the importance of designing a culture that fosters well-being.

Employee Facing Resources

Coworker Appreciation Planning Template

WELCOA has created this Love Week resource to help you implement a coworker appreciation activity at any time of the year

Toolkits

Health Coaching Toolkit

Wellness Alliance resources to assist health and wellness coaches in their roles at organizations.

Employee Facing Resources

Fitness That Works: Simple Moves to Make Exercise Happen From 9 to 5

By leveraging simple yet impactful moves, this book will provide numerous benefits to you and your family both physically and emotionally.

Toolkits

Health Coaching Toolkit Additional Resources

Additional resources from the Wellness Alliance to assist health and wellness coaches in their roles at organizations.

Legal Foundations: Setting the Stage for 2021

In this session, we will cover where different wellness laws come from, such as federal, state or case law, which governing authorities enforce the different wellness laws, and where the wellness practitioner can look for guidance for the different sources of law.

Well Balanced – March 2024

Join us in celebrating Nutrition Month, highlighting the impact of a balanced diet on work performance.

Find Your Unicorn Space – How Reclaiming Your Creative Life is the Key to Unlocking Wellness with Eve Rodsky

Eve Rodsky unpacks lessons on leading a creative and purposeful life, how to unlock your creativity, and the secret formula to making stronger friendships and new ways to approach happiness.

Well Balanced – March 2022

Raise awareness and educate your employees on the importance of taking care of their mental health as part of their overall well-being.

Wellness Alliance’s National Wellness Compensation Report

Wellness Alliance’s National Wellness Compensation Report shines a light on the key demographic, occupational, financial, worksite health management, professional development, and quality of life insights reported by survey respondents.

Gearing Up for 2023: The Future of Workplace Well-Being Consulting

Wellness Alliance can help brokers and consultants scale and employers make the most out of their outsourced relationships.

Well Balanced – January 2024

National Blood Donor Month is your chance to make a real impact.

Well Balanced – January 2022

Let us do some heavy lifting for you with this monthly resource.

Mentally Resilient Employees with Mettie Spiess

Mettie Spiess is a mental wellness expert and international keynote speaker who focuses on mentally resilient employees, stigma-free work environments, and empowered leaders.

Are Employers Legally Required to Implement Workplace Wellness Programs? December 2022

In this webinar, we will discuss ERISA fiduciary duty and whether employers have a fiduciary duty to implement wellness programs that could potentially save the group health plan money.

What Data Can Be Shared, and With Whom, In Workplace Wellness Programs?

Legal expert Barbara Zabawa, JD, MPH and guest panelist, Dan Keith, CEO of It Starts With Me Health, address HIPAA and other topics.

Legal Considerations When Adopting Onsite Clinics as Part of an Employee Wellness Program, December 2020

This month’s webinar will explore the different legal issues that arise when employers adopt onsite clinics as part of their effort to improve employee health and wellness.

Well Balanced – December 2023

While the end of the year is a time for reflection and celebration, the busy schedules and demands to create holiday magic can take a toll on our physical and mental health. That’s why it’s important to prioritize self care in all aspects of our lives.

Well Balanced – November 2023

Learn tips for managing life as a family caregiver and tips for living a lifestyle that balances blood sugar.

Well Balanced – October 2023

Learn tips for preventing disease, detecting cancer early on, and supporting safety for yourself and others.

Well Balanced – September 2023

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month – a time to raise awareness, raise education, crush stigma, share stories of resilience, and welcome conversations about mental health and suicide.

Well Balanced – August 2023

Learn about your natural immunity and how you can add an extra layer of protection with immunizations.

Well Balanced – July 2023

It’s important to know the risks of UV damage and how to keep your skin healthy all year round.

Well Balanced – June 2023

June is National Men’s Health Month! This is a month to encourage men to prioritize their health, and to bring to light some of the biggest health challenges that men face today.

Well Balanced – May 2023

May is Mental Health Month – a perfect time to get educated, get support, and learn ways to make mental health a self-care priority in your daily life.

7 Benchmarks: Certification Course

This training is perfect for entry-level practitioners and for those who are just getting started in the field.

Well Balanced – April 2023

If you choose to consume alcohol or live or work with others who do, it’s important to be aware of how to drink responsibly, as well as the health impacts, safety risks, and signs of addiction when it is used excessively.

Well Balanced – March 2023

March is National Nutrition Month, the perfect time to get a refresher on nutrition basics and learn how to make healthy and tasty meals to bring fun back to the table.

Well Balanced – February 2023

Learn tips for a healthy Heart Month, and how to use positive body image practices as a form of self-love.

Bouncing Back and Bouncing Forward in 2021 with Arianna Huffington

The resources on this page were chosen to provide you with innovative strategies and ideas for supporting employee well-being.

Well Balanced – January 2023

Learn strategies that will help you get and stay healthy in the new year.

Betting On the Workforce with Laurie Rueittmann

The resources on this page were chosen to provide you with innovative strategies and ideas for supporting employee well-being.

Unmind: Employee Mental Health Needs a Reboot

The resources on this page were chosen to provide you with innovative strategies and ideas for supporting employee well-being.

Supporting Business and Employees Through the Changing Landscape of Mental Health with Virgin Pulse

The resources on this page were chosen to provide you with innovative strategies and ideas for supporting employee well-being.

It’s Personal: How to Address Mental Health for Every Employee with Mobile Health

The resources on this page were chosen to provide you with innovative strategies and ideas for supporting employee well-being.

Case Studies

New Era Cap Company Case Study

Find out how the program’s holistic education, policy and culture initiatives help reduce employees’ risk for chronic disease, improve overall health, and keep employees and the business operating at 110%.

2023 Industry Trends Report

We’ll answer the questions, “what are our most pressing challenges” and “what are the most effective solutions?”

Civil Rights and Diversity and Inclusion in Workplace Wellness Program Design

In this session, Barbara and her guest panelist, Michelle Spehr of The Benefit Services Group, Inc., explain how wellness programs can strike just the right balance between respecting differences and improving lives.

Well Balanced – December 2022

Help your employees prepare for the winter months by having a plan to keep wellness habits alive.

Your Essential Workplace Safety Protocol: Equal Pay!

This event will explore how compensation practices intersect with trust, employee well-being, business performance, and more.

EEOC Wellness Incentive Rules: History and Update, August 2020

This session will review the history of the wellness incentive rules under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) before providing the latest news about the updated rules by the EEOC.

Workplace Wellness and State Laws, August 2023

In this webinar, the speaker will discuss the importance of and difference between state and federal laws.

Employers or Vendors? Who’s Legally Responsible for WW Compliance? June 2023

In this session, we will discuss whether and when workplace wellness program vendors (including broker/consultants) bear legal risk when administering corporate wellness programs, and when the employer bears that risk.

Legal Webinar: Wellness Legal Cases Update

This webinar will cover certain lawsuits that have been filed involving wellness programs or providers

Well Balanced – August 2024

When considering whole-person wellness, a major factor is work-life blend, in which the family unit plays a large and important role.

Racism, Discrimination & Wellness with Israel Greene

Gain a better understanding on the best way to approach diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace.

Well Balanced – August 2022

Help your employees re-prioritize their well-being with a newsletter that provides tactical tips to make it happen.

The Case for Employees Living the Good Life

In this case study from Smola Consulting and Victor Central School District, learn how a plant based initiative changed behaviors and improved health risk factors that have lifelong results with The Good Life Challenge health initiative; a 10-day whole food, plant based food challenge.

Employee Facing Resources

Self-Care Practices to Improve Well-Being

Well-being is no longer just about nutrition and exercise. People are beginning to understand that well-being is also made up of mental and emotional aspects of self.

Well Balanced – July 2024

When our mental health is not at its best, it impacts how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.

Are Psychedelics, like Ketamine, Legal as a Wellness Benefit? November 2023

The increasing interest in addressing mental health issues in the workplace includes a rising interest in alternative therapies. One of those alternative therapies that is gaining popularity is the use of psychedelics like Ketamine to treat depression, PTSD, and other behavioral health disorders.

Advancing Health Equity with Krista Stepney

Join us as we explore how employers can address health inequity and create greater well-being among their workforce, particularly those who are a part of under-resourced and marginalized communities.

Advancing Health Equity: What Can You Do?

Employers and their partners are in a unique position to advance health equity. Take the first step with this quick guide supplement to the Advancing Health Equity.

Roadmap for Building Workplace Wellness Programs

Reach Your Wellness Destination.

Loneliness with Stuart Chittenden

In this session, Ryan Picarella and Stuart Chittenden will discuss the effects of loneliness on workers, the cost of loneliness on workplaces and how conversations can combat loneliness.

Expert Interviews

How to Thrive with Arianna Huffington

WELCOA sat down with Arianna Huffington to learn more about what it takes to thrive and what the work place can do to tackle the sleep deprivation crisis.

Expert Interviews

The Mayo Model for Wellness with Paul Limburg

Dr. Limburg from the Mayo Clinic sits down with WELCOA President Ryan Picarella to hear about how one of the most cutting-edge clinics for disease treatment is jumping head first into wellness and prevention.

Expert Interviews

Getting Managers on the Move with Laura Putnam

Laura Putnam of Motion Infusion tells us the three ways a manager can become a wellness multiplier in your organization.

2021 Workplace Resilience Survey

Download the infographic for the Workplace Resilience Survey.

2021 Workplace Resilience Survey Report

This study sought to identify what employer’s challenges are when working to protect employee mental well-being, what’s working best, and what their major concerns are for the future.

Wellness Alliance’s Seven Benchmarks: The Basics

By using this information in your organization or with your clients, you will have a solid structure for successfully improving the health and wellbeing of your employees.

Expert Interviews

The Power of Storytelling: Share Your Wellness Story with Rachel Druckenmiller

Rachel Druckenmiller has seen firsthand how the workplace can impact the other aspects of one’s life.

Expert Interviews

Intergenerational/Multigenerational Wellness at Work: Program Ideas that You Can Use with Brett Powell

In this expert interview, Brett Powell, Vice President and Wellness Consultant at the American Institute for Preventive Medicine, shares some characteristics of each generation along with research and experience to provide strategies that you can use to engage a multi-generational population in your wellness program.

Expert Interviews

Communicating the Value of Your Wellness Program with Jessica Grossmeier

Jessica Grossmeier, Vice President of Research at Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), discusses the Value of Investment (VOI) for employee health promotion.

Definition of Wellness

Successful workplace wellness initiatives require supporting employees in fulfilling their needs in seven areas.

The Impact of Workplace Wellness Study

Read more from Wellness Alliance in response to the Harvard Medical School study with “5 Key Takeaways and 5 Next Steps” for communicating the value of your wellness program.

Expert Interviews

Rebranding Health as Well-Being with Dr. Michelle Segar

In this Wellness Alliance Expert Interview, Dr. Michelle Segar shares an easy-to-adopt, novel approach to promoting health, wellness, and fitness behaviors that leading organizations are starting to adopt.

Expert Interviews

WOOPAAH: Tangible Ideas to Work Happier, Live Better with Stella Grizont

Stella Grizont discusses piloting planes, how to survive a saber-toothed animal, and how to transform your happiness at work.

State of Fertility & Family Benefits Fireside Chat

Meeting global challenges with better family health care: Key takeaways from Maven’s latest research.

Light Up Your Workforce with Positivity by MJ Shaar

Find out how psychological well-being revolutionizes employee wellness and organizational culture.

Social Determinants of Health

Download this resource on social determinants of health (SDOH) for a deeper dive into the definition.

Expert Interviews

The Power of Health & Wellness Coaching: The Influence on Employee Health, Creativity & Performance with Dr. Michael Arloski

Influencing Lasting Lifestyle Change Through Health and Wellness Coaching

Walk through the health and wellness coaching steps to gain initial insight into helping people move from where they are to where they want to be.

8 Characteristics of Effective Worksite Wellness Coaches

If you are hiring or looking to work as a health and wellness coach at the workplace, consider these characteristics as as starting point to determine suitability for the challenge.

The 7 Benchmarks: A Framework for a Well Workplace

As a one component of the Well Workplace process, this self-paced e-learning course is intended to help you master the skills needed to design and deliver successful employee wellness initiatives.

Expert Interviews

Mental Health at the Workplace with Mettie Spiess

Mettie Spiess to discuss the very important topic of employee mental health and safety, and how organizations can eliminate the stigma.

The Science of Happiness – How to Flourish at Work

Learn the hidden psychological traps that sabotage one’s well-being, happiness, and success at work and simple tools to overcome negativity and flourish.

WellRight: Employee Resilience During COVID-19

Innovative strategies and ideas for supporting employee well-being.

New Data and Innovations for Improving Mental Health with Archetype Solutions Group & Ginger

Innovative strategies and ideas for supporting employee well-being.

Treating the Cause: How to Reverse Heart Disease, Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses with Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr.

In this exclusive webinar, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. will show what reversal techniques you can adapt to live a longer, healthier and disease-free life.

Wellness Alliance’s Suggested Resources on Behavior Change

Wellness Alliance shares a number of excellent resources that can help you navigate the vast topic of changing behaviors.

Expert Interviews

Finding Purpose in Your Worksite Wellness Program with Dr. Vic Strecher, Part 2

In this exclusive interview with Wellness Alliance Ryan Picarella, Vic discusses the importance of having “purpose” in life and health.

Expert Interviews

Finding Purpose in Your Worksite Wellness Program with Dr. Vic Strecher, Part 1

In this part-two interview, Wellness Alliance Ryan Picarella asks Vic Strecher to reveal the current research, the application of concepts, future direction, and the tools and resources available when it comes to making worksite wellness programs “purpose-driven.”

Workplace Wellness Best Practices Study 2022

Utilize the guidance of evidence-based best practices to help employees achieve better health and well-being, and achieve meaningful bottom-line business reports with the help of the Workplace Wellness Best Practices Study 2022 created in partnership with Returns On Wellbeing Institute.

2020 Trends in Wellness Survey

Survey data that can be used to advocate for actions providing vital solutions enriching the well-being, health, and safety of employees.

Wellbeing 2020 Trends in Wellness Survey

From this report, you will gain initial insight into helping employees move from where they are to where they want to be in the wellness journey.

Looking Ahead at 2023: Industry Trends Report

How you and other corporate well-being leaders like you have responded to another year of crises, as well as best practices for tackling emerging needs of employees.

Employee Financial Well-Being with Jim Purcell and Steven Van Yoder

Learn about how an organizational focus on employee financial well-being is important now more than ever.

The Hybrid Model of Working: What is It and Why It Matters to Your Employees’ Mental Health

The latest Unmind handbook covers the basics of hybrid working, employers’ responsibilities and challenges when it comes to hybrid models of work and how to pick a structure that works for your organization.

Why Wellness?

Wellness Alliance’s response to the Harvard Medical School study with 16 ideas for encouraging your team to think differently about wellness programming.

Expert Interviews

Loneliness with Cory Smith at Wisdom Labs

Wisdom Labs’ tools and programs combat loneliness by building social connection, building resilience to stress, and reducing burnout. This leads to improved performance, engagement, and reduced turnover in the workplace.

2021 Workplace Well-Being Buyer Attitudes and Beliefs Report

This survey was conducted by WELCOA and Unmind. Buyers representing at least 86,000 employees responded to share their concerns, priorities, insights, and strategy regarding workplace well-being leading into the new year (2022).

2021 EEOC Updates

In this session, Barbara will discuss the details of the proposed EEOC wellness incentive rules, released on January 7, 2021.

Animals in the Workplace: The Legalities of Service Animals and Pets for Wellbeing

In this session, Barbara will discuss the many employees who desire to bring a service animal to work as part of their wellbeing. This session will review the laws involving service animals in the employment context.

Well Balanced – November 2022

Brighten up the lives of your employees by encouraging them to adopt an attitude of giving and gratitude, regain balance for the body, master a meaningful morning routine, and nourish their bodies with the colorful foods of fall in this month’s edition of Well Balanced.

Well Balanced – November 2024

Many of us are seeking something more in our work but are unsure how to fill the gap. The answer just may be in the realm of professional development.

Expert Interviews

Worksite Wellness: Strategically Designed

Jennifer Pitts, PhD shares insights that guided the journey toward WELCOA’s evolved 7 Benchmarks.

Expert Interviews

Exploring Purpose in Work and Life with Reggie Hammond

As employees discover what energizes them in their daily lives, workplaces have begun to recognize how pivotal the recognition of purpose is. How do we find purpose in our work and lives? What does it mean to answer a calling? Wellness Alliance sits down with coach and leadership expert Reggie Hammond to find out the answers.

Micromoves to Build a Positive Workplace with Chris White

In this keynote presentation, Chris White will share several research-based interventions to apply right away in your organization.

The Keys to Workplace Mental Health: Voice. Value. Vigilance. with Mettie Spiess

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!

Addressing the Impacts of Violence Trauma in the Workplace

This white paper provides a guide to addressing the impacts of trauma violence in the workplace.

Loneliness

Build your arsenal with this ready to use infographic and new Loneliness E-book!

Expert Interviews

On the Cutting Edge of Stress Management with Dr. Laurel Mellin

Work stress has a direct impact on health, happiness and productivity, so it is an important component of workplace wellness. Many people think that matters of the emotional brain are off limits in the workplace, but Dr. Laurel Mellin’s revolutionary brain-based EBT method aims to change all that.

Well Balanced – February 2022

Raise awareness and educate your employees on the importance of taking care of their hearts as part of their self-care routine during American Heart Month.

Well Balanced – February 2024

Prioritizing heart health through proactive measures can greatly enhance overall well-being.

Case Studies

Teledyne Brown Case Study

Teledyne Brown Engineering’s Go for the Gold program has been improving population health status, creating healthy cultures, and building employee trust—all within a strict interpretation of ACA guidelines.

Hybrid Approach to Care: How Top Orthopedists Are Now Addressing Musculoskeletal Pain

In this special event, you’ll learn how AKLOS Health can help you strike the right balance for your valued employees. You’ll also find out how they’re the only solution on the market today that addresses the critical soft tissue component of chronic pain, and why that’s important for the wellness of your workforce.

“Working on Wellness:” Protocol for a Worksite Health Promotion Capacity-Building Program for Employers

This article describes the WoW program design and approaches to recruitment, implementation, and evaluation.

The Healthy Workplace Nudge with Rex Miller

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.

Reaching Your North Star: Unlocking the Science of Personal Purpose with Arthur Woods

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.

The Damage of Work-First Culture: Proven Solutions for Ending “The Grind” with Josh Levs

Josh Levs will give businesses a “check up” to determine just how well they’re doing, how far they’ve come, and how far they have to go.

Employee Facing Resources

Incorporating Trauma-Responsive Practices into Supervision

This quick guide will help you incorporate trauma-responsive practices into your supervision and leadership.

Employee Facing Resources

The ABCs of Checking-In When you Suspect a Coworker is Experiencing Violence

This quick guide includes tips to follow to create a space in which you can reach out to help your coworker.

Is It Domestic or Sexual Violence? Recognizing the Potential Signs

Domestic and sexual violence cause significant harm – physically, psychologically, emotionally, and economically – which often impact survivors’ work life and careers. This infographic will help you recognize the potential signs and identify some ways you can help.

Six Supportive Ways to Address Trauma that Shows up at Work

This quick guide provides six ways that individuals or organizations can respond to a traumatic incident to promote well-being and resilience.

Mapping Out Meaning for Employee Well-being

“Mapping Out Meaning for Employee Well-being” is a concept based on ecosystems, aiming to create a positive work environment by integrating elements like psychological safety, high-quality relationships, and mental toughness.

Developing Psychological Capital

This resource includes exercises that can be done alone and in groups to develop Psychological Capital in team settings.

Our Logic Model for Employee Wellness Programs

The logic model reflects the total benchmarks process that begins with strategic planning at the organization level (Benchmark 1) and iterates by measuring progress toward your organization’s vision for employee wellness (Benchmark 7).

“How to Build an Effective Financial Wellness Program” with Todd Barden

How can employers ensure they are meeting the financial wellness needs of all employees?

Feedback that Supports Safety and Trust

At the center of a psychologically safe corporate culture is the ability of all employees to deliver critical feedback. Join us as we chat through this skill set from our expertise and experience as leaders.

Well Balanced – September 2024

Today, suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, especially among working age adults. Suicide is complex and rarely rooted in a single aspect.

Well Balanced – September 2022

Remind your employees of the importance of prioritizing their well-being at work, at home, and in their family life.

Well Balanced – October 2024

October is breast cancer awareness month and reminds us of the profound burden of cancer, which impacts not only those diagnosed, but also their loved ones, colleagues, and caregivers.

Case Studies

Well County La Crosse: A Case Study with the Wellness Council of Wisconsin

Evolving out of Wellness Alliance’s Well Workplace Awards Process™, Well County USA is an initiative designed to engage entire business communities in improving the health and well-being of their workforce.

Work at Love, Love at Work with Kim Harrison

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.

The Legalities of Tobacco Cessation Wellness Programs

In this session, Barbara will cover the laws that govern tobacco cessation programs as well as the laws on handling employees who may lie about tobacco use to avoid a surcharge, as well as the importance of state laws that permit use of lawful products off duty.

Health Promotion Program Legal Update with Heather Sittler, September 2021

This session will be an interactive discussion with Senior Health Strategist, Heather Sittler, CWWPC, about wellness program challenges, from a legal perspective, and how her company, Hylant, solved those challenges.

Legal Issues Involving HRAs and Biometric Screens, September 2022

When it comes to building your worksite wellness program, do you know which types of incentives are permissible, which laws impact wellness program design and implementation, and how health reform, federal guidance and court cases will continue to change the rules for wellness?

Well Balanced – October 2022

Share nourishing and tasty fall recipes, the benefits of being kind, tips on taking care of the lymphatic system, how to find the best time for exercise, and ideas for combatting cyberbullying in this edition of Well Balanced.

Innovative Approaches to Creating Effective Wellness Workshops

In this session, we’ll explore the art and science of designing wellness workshops that engage participants and drive sustainable health outcomes.

The Relationship Comes First With Jason Lauritsen

Explore how designing the employee experience through the lens of a healthy relationship will focus your employee engagement efforts for greater impact.

Let Food Be Thy Medicine

Find out how some physicians are using whole food plant-based diets to reverse heart disease and other chronic conditions in their patient populations.

Workplace Wellness Trends in 2024

In this event, we broke it down: what is working well to care for employees, what priorities are driving change, and which strategies are worth investing in.

Expert Interviews

You Should Have Brain Envy with Dr. Amen

Learn how the three pounds of fat in our heads influences every aspect of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

Let Food Be Thy Medicine

Find out how some physicians are using whole food plant-based diets to reverse heart disease and other chronic conditions in their patient populations.

Summit 2023 Presentations

A selection of presentations from the 2023 Annual Wellness Summit.

Tackling the Loneliness Epidemic

Find practical and insightful tips for strengthening your team in this fact-filled infographic!

Expert Interviews

Exploring the Power of Community with Dr. Joel Bennett

Ryan Picarella and OWLS’ CEO, Dr. Joel Bennett, PhD discuss the alignment of two powerful tools for working within a healthy workplace: WELCOA’s 7 Benchmarks™ and Organizational Wellness and Learning System’s Champions Training.

Supporting Employee Mental Health: 2021 Survey

Learn how employers are addressing mental health in the workplace and what they are looking for in their vendor partners.

Four Virtues of a Leader with Eric Kaufmann

Eric Kaufmann, President and Founder of Sagatica, shares his personal philosophy for leadership when he visits with Ryan Picarella in this inspiring expert interview.

New Era Cap Company

The New Era Cap Company’s wellness initiative is worth a closer study, and Wellness Alliance is bringing you just that.

Expert Interviews

A New Era in Health Promotion: Nutrigenomics and the Microbiome with Dr. Karen Wolfe

The Brain-First Revolution: Redefining Workplace Well-Being with Mental Strength at the Core

Sexual Harassment as a Workplace Wellness Issue, January 2018

Barbara Zabawa will cover sexual harassment legal basics, sexual harassment and worker wellbeing, and workplace wellness tools.

Tips for Rising Up With Resilience When Life Knocks You Down

Rachel Druckenmiller, Founder & CEO of Unmuted, shares tips for rising up with resilience when life knocks you down in this quick guide supplement to the WELCOA Pulse: I’m Still Standing – Rising Up with Resilience When Life Knocks You Down.

I’m Still Standing – Rising Up with Resilience When Life Knocks You Down with Rachel Druckenmiller

This is an inspiring story of resilience along with Rachel’s practical, actionable insights and 15+ years of expertise in the field of workplace wellness helping organizations and their employees to thrive.

A Real-Life Case Study on Workplace Wellness Compliance

A case study on one employer’s wellness program will be used to examine compliance issues, giving you the highest quality of understanding on this subject.

Keeping Your Brain Young with Dr. Kip Johnson

In this Wellness Alliance Member-exclusive, Dr. Kip Johnson, M.D. of Personal Wellness Corporation discusses what environmental factors are increasingly putting us at risk for brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Wellness Gets a Glow Up

Join us for this skill-building event where we’ll help you leverage your influence, confront conflict, and amplify your leadership.

Mental and Emotional Wellbeing is the Way with Cory Smith

Cory shares anecdotes of what companies and individuals are doing to address these challenges and why now is the best time to step forward as a leader for emotional, social, and mental wellbeing in one’s organization.

Beneath the Surface: Why Mental Well-Being is Critical in the Workplace with Sheila Hamilton

Hear Sheila Hamilton’s story and how her experience and the wider issues around mental health linked to suicide led to the meaningful work she now does at Beyond Well Solutions.

The Strong Link Between Social Responsibility and Wellness with Heath Shackleford

Breaking Through the Maternal Wall with Tet Salva

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.”

Social Determinants of Health with Rick Hecht

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.

Building Your Personal Sense of Power and Leadership with Meghna Majmudar

In this experiential keynote, we’ll tap into your authentic sense of strength and make it available whenever it’s needed.

Collaborative Movements of Change with Maggie Gough

When we recognize our collective responsibility to healthy social connection we can influence thriving culture.

The Science of Happiness: Help Employees Avoid Self-Sabotage and Elevate Wellbeing with Stella Grizont

How do you motivate employees to stop the self-sabotage and choose wisely, in support of their well-being and performance?

Wellness, Engagement & Performance: Applying a Self-Determination Theory to Transform Your Culture with Scott Rigby

This session will present a powerful framework for transformational improvement to employee engagement and wellness based on Self-Determination Theory, providing attendees with practical strategies and best-practices for a thriving workplace.

Expert Interviews

Leadership with Lt. Gen. Kowalski (Video 3 of 4)

Learn about increasing employee performance, expanding your influence as a professional, and what makes a leader great.

Expert Interviews

Leadership with Lt. Gen. Kowalski (Video 2 of 4)

Learn about increasing employee performance, expanding your influence as a professional, and what makes a leader great.

Expert Interviews

Leadership with Lt. Gen. Kowalski (Video 1 of 4)

Learn about increasing employee performance, expanding your influence as a professional, and what makes a leader great.

Expert Interviews

Leadership with Lt. Gen. Kowalski (Video 4 of 4)

Learn about increasing employee performance, expanding your influence as a professional, and what makes a leader great.

Expert Interviews

Personalized Coaching Strategies with Alyfe Wellbeing Strategies

Read how the experts at Alyfe Wellbeing Strategies define and implement personalized coaching strategies that support a culture of health – wherever employees may be.

Leadership Landscape with a Presidential Panel

Industry CEOs and senior leaders will share specifically how they took steps to elevate wellness to a business imperative.

Burnout & Resilience in the Workplace Toolkit Additional Resources

Additional resources to assist your organization in decreasing burnout and creating resilience in your workplace.

Eight Ways to Banish Burnout Toolkit

This toolkit provides eight ways to help you banish burnout and move from stress to success both for yourself and when working with a team.

Expert Interviews

The Under-Explored, High-Stakes Reality of Stress and Burnout at the Workplace with Dr. Jeff Jernigan

Taking care of the whole person includes helping employees learn how to recognize and respond to their personal stress before they reach burnout.

Measuring the Value of Caring with Jennifer Pitts and Sara Martin Rauch

This session will examine how employer organizations can use a next-generation system of approaches and measures that engage employees to both enhance compassion and assess the full value of a caring organization.

WELL Workforce: Innovating a Culture of Health with Rachel Gutter

The WELL Building Standard™ (WELL™) provides organizations with a framework to intentionally combine design, wellness programming, and policies to achieve workforce wellness goals and cultivate healthy environments where all employees can thrive.

Physical Activity Intervention: A Case Study with Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin

In this case study from a Wellness Alliance Platinum Award winning program at Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin, Jeff Stieg shares the physical activity intervention that they have been using in order to encourage exercise at work for both health and safety reasons.

How to Buy Well-Being Solutions – Insider Secrets and New Tech

Choosing Appropriate Initiatives Planning Template

Wellness Alliance has created this planning template to support employee health and wellbeing so they can succeed at what they want to achieve toward a thriving life.

Successful Partnerships in Employee Wellness with Dr. Paul Terry

Paul Terry, Chief Science Officer at StayWell, shares his research-backed views about the roles of vendors, employers and employees in successful health promotion partnerships.

Human Health and Wellness in the Built Environment with Dr. Brent Bauer

Wellness Alliance sits down with Dr. Brent Bauer from the Mayo Clinic.

Activating Wellness Program Participation

Move the needle when it comes to increasing employee participation and engagement in your programs.

Toolkits

Benchmark 4: Crafting an Operating Plan Toolkit

Benchmark 4 is about capturing an organization’s goals for wellness initiatives and documenting the details will serve as a roadmap to guide efforts and investments in workplace wellness.

Operating Plan Presentation Template

This editable PowerPoint presentation template is ideal for communicating wellness program strategy and planning to clients or leadership.

Common Challenges of Crafting an Operating Plan

This quick guide states common challenges to crafting an operation plan for your organization’s wellness program.

Operating Plan Overview

This quick guide delivers an overview of steps to creating an operation plan for your organization’s wellness program.

10 Things to Consider When Developing Your Wellness Operating Plan

This tool is designed to help you create the operating plan before launching into the interventions.

Crafting an Operating Plan

The wellness operating plan reflects the vision, values and purpose of an organization as documented in Benchmark #1.

Decrease Burnout & Build Resilience

This resource brings the results to you with new insights around self-compassion, focus, and dealing with negative emotions in a healthier way.

Expert Interviews

One Size Doesn’t Always Fit All with Advanced Genomics Solutions

Kellie Straub Caldwell and Lance Bennett sit down with WELCOA’s Sara Martin Rauch to share how individuals can make healthier lifestyle choices with their own unique, genetic information.

Benefits of Grief Support

Ilana Shapiro Yahdav and Kim Hanlon of Yahdav & Hanlon created this white paper to provide facts to illustrate the impact of grief in the workplace.

Understanding the Grief Landscape

This infographic provides some great tips to better understanding the grief landscape.

Why Corporate Grief Support

This infographic outlines some of the top reasons why your organization should make space for grief support.

5 Things to Know About Grief in the Workplace

Learn more about the sources, signs, symptoms, and cost of grief along with simple things you can do to make space fore grief in the workplace with this infographic.

Taking Inventory of Grief in the Workplace

Use this quick guide to take an inventory of what may be impacting your workplace.

Expert Interviews

Walking 4 Wellness: Four Simple Steps to Achieve Your Best Body and Life

Fitness expert, Sean Foy and Ryan Picarella, President of Wellness Alliance, discuss walking, the many benefits associated with this very important activity and ways to get yourself and program participants to move more every day.

Toolkits

Mental Health in the Workplace

Use this tool to learn more about mental health at the workplace and why the workplace is a critical environment for addressing mental health.

The Nutritional Reversal of Cardiovascular Disease: Fact or Fiction? with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn

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.

A Habit a Day with Andrew Sykes

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!

The Power of Community

Hear examples of communities that are impacting our current medical model and explore proven strategies to harness the power of relationships to transform your world.

Expert Interviews

Designing Organizations That Thrive with Andrew Sykes

In this interview, Ryan Picarella, Wellness Alliance, sits down with Andrew Sykes to learn more about his vision for employee wellness and how he has dedicated his work since to helping employers design their businesses to help employees thrive.

Toolkits

Benchmark 5: Choosing Initiatives that Support the Whole Employee Toolkit

Benchmark 5 is about selecting appropriate health and wellness interventions based on data collected serves to enhance decision-making skills.

Benchmark 5: Initiatives Additional Resources

Additional resources to help you align your well workplace strategy with decisions made to bring the right intervention to your organization.

Expert Interviews

Going Stealth with Laura Putnam

Learn what barriers might be holding you back from engaging employees in onsite wellness initiatives and why “going stealth” might be your next strategy for moving the needle on employee engagement.

Employee Facing Resources

Allegheny Energy Supply Employee Survey Sample

What’s the best way to know the interests of your employees? Just ask them. Asking is as easy as distributing a survey that invites your employees to share their opinions.

ChildServe’s Wellness Program Mission and Vision

A sample of a mission and vision statement from Well Workplace Gold Winner, ChildServe.

Employee Facing Resources

Ideas for Creating an Effective Wellness Team

Use this handy clickable graphic for fresh ideas for creating a cohesive wellness team.

Employee Facing Resources

Sharing Your Story: Wellness Champion Role Determination

Use Dr. Bennett’s tool to help express your motivation and story for becoming a Wellness Champion.

Drive! Designing the Optimal Team to Deliver High-Level, Sustained Performance

In this thought-provoking presentation, Cameron Black will demonstrate the importance of teamwork and provide a blueprint of how organizations can create their own optimal wellness team.

Case Studies

A Case for Collaboration: How a Health System Brought People Together to Achieve Higher Engagement

In this case study from Gundersen Health System, learn how this health system achieved higher engagement in their well-being strategy with the power of collaboration and by collecting meaningful data which allowed them to evolve their strategy effectively.

Expert Interviews

Amplify Your Impact: Leverage Your Champions

This event will provide expert guidance from Jen Arnold and Rita Patel, who will provide the methods to find and leverage your champions. Learn new skills to amplify your impact by weaving employee wellness into the fiber of work.

Benchmark 6: Cultivate Supportive Health Promoting Environments, Policies and Practices Toolkit

The purpose of this benchmark is to assist in creating policies, resources, and support that help foster a workplace centered on the employee’s well-being.

5 Practices to Consider In Creating Supportive Environments

Consider the five recommendations in this template to guide your progress toward creating supportive environments at the workplace to support employee health and wellness.

Expert Interviews

Seven Points of Transformation with Dr. Rosie Ward and Dr. Jon Robison

In this interview, Rosie and Jon present a blueprint that leverages their "7 Points of Transformation" for building a thriving culture at work.

Expert Interviews

Creating Shared Values with Dee Edington

Dee Edington and Jennifer Pitts have an exciting new approach to creating shared organizational values to improve well-being. Learn more in this exclusive expert interview.

Expert Interviews

The Five Dimensions: Creating a Culture of Health with Judd Allen

Judd Allen shares how your company’s organizational environment can impact employee health and tips for creating a healthy, supportive culture of health.

Preparing Your Workplace for Worker-Centered Responses to Potential Threats

Use this quick guide to learn how to prepare, prevent, and respond to an incident at the workplace.

Tips for Creating a Resilient Workplace

This quick guide provides five tips for creating a resilient workplace.

Expert Interviews

Focus on the Positive with MJ Shaar

Get some quick strategies for fostering positive emotions in our own lives and among employees.

Expert Interviews

The Value of Workplace Ergonomics with Erik Nieuwenhuis

Standing desks, ergonomic work spaces and other tweaks to the built environment are showing promise in increasing total employee well-being and decreasing worksite injuries and pain. But what is the financial and health impact of these interventions? Workplace ergonomics expert and physical therapist Erik Nieuwenhuis gives us the total value story.

Benchmark 6: Supportive Environments, Policies and Practices Sample Policies and Survey

Sample polices and survey related to Benchmark 6 “Cultivate Supportive Health Promoting Environments, Policies and Practices.”

Sample Resources

Tobacco-Free Workplace Sample Policy

When preparing to create or review your workplace tobacco-free policy, consider using the template provided from the American Lung Association.

Sample Resources

Ten Company Strategies: Travel Wellness

Consider these 10 policies or procedures within your business that will contribute to safe and secure employee travel.

Sample Resources

“Sit For 60, Move For 3” Sample Policy

This sample “Sit For 60, Move For 3” policy can be used as a springboard for making your own communications.

Sample Resources

Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Stalking Model Workplace Policy

Use this sample policy as a reference point when creating policies and practices for your organization.

Sample Resources

Drug-Free Workplace Sample Policy

When preparing to create or review your drug-free workplace policy, consider using the template provided from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Sample Resources

Workplace Wellness Sample Policy

When preparing to create or review your workplace wellness policy, consider using this template created with ideas from Queensland Government Wellness.

Work-First Culture Q&A with Josh Levs

Ryan Picarella facilitates a Q&A session with Josh Levs on how FMLA is handled and processed culturally across different organizations.

Creating Win-Win Outcomes

Use this quick guide to learn how to adopt a win-win mindset to help in collaboration efforts.

Asking Thought-Provoking Questions

This quick guide is designed to help you ask not just any questions, but thought-provoking ones.

Beginner’s and Growth Mindset

Use this quick guide to learn how to adopt a beginner’s and growth mindset to help in collaboration efforts.

Top 7 Meeting Facilitation Tips

Reference this quick guide for seven tips to facilitate meetings.

Managing Conflict

Use this quick guide to manage conflict.

Bringing Stakeholders Together

This quick guide is designed to help bring key stakeholders together.

Reflect and Learn

This quick guide teaches how to prioritize reflection and analysis after an experience that matters.

Identifying Key Stakeholders

Use this quick guide to help identify key stakeholders.

Troubleshooting Your Collaborative Efforts

Use this quick guide to help troubleshoot problems with collaboration efforts.

Committee Meeting Agenda

Use this planning template as reference for a committee meeting agenda.

Toolkits

Benchmark 2: Collaboration in Support of Wellness Toolkit

Benchmark #2 is about engaging stakeholders at all levels and maintaining a cooperative approach to worksite wellness initiatives.

Benchmark 2: Supporting Wellness Additional Resources

Additional resources for ideas to create a wellness network within your organization.

Benchmark 7: Conduct Evaluation, Communicate, Celebrate and Iterate Toolkit

This resource has been created to help you understand the impact of your efforts to support health and wellbeing.

Participation Feedback Sample Form

Do you know what your employees want in a health promotion initiative?

Annual Worksite Wellness Summary Report Template

Use this template of questions and suggestions to tell the story about your worksite wellness initiative this past year.

Wellness Alliance’s 5 Reasons Why People Don’t Evaluate

Learn why evaluation is an essential part of your worksite wellness initiatives, but is often overlooked for a variety of reasons.

The Art of Healthy Boundaries in the Digital Age with Brian Luke Seaward

This presentation examines our love affair with technology to a fault (e.g., FOMO, digital dementia, etc.), and offers insights into creating healthy boundaries so that we can regain and maintain our “center,” in an ever-changing world.

From Critic to Champion: How to Effectively Engage Leadership in Wellness with Jen Arnold

In this thought-provoking keynote, you’ll be challenged to explore new questions, flip common thinking on its head, and you’ll walk away with at least one practical action item for effectively engaging your leadership.

Employee Facing Resources

Common Cents Incentive Campaign

Common Cents is an incentive challenge that aims to get your employees to the peak of financial wellness.

How to Build an Effective Financial Wellness Program with Todd Barden

How can employers ensure they are meeting the financial wellness needs of all employees?

Articles

Workplace Wellness that Works Lab

Laura Putnam breaks down workplace wellness into three major phases—START IT, BUILD IT and MAKE IT LAST.

Webinars

The Friendship Factor: Healthy Relationships for Modern Work with Chris Schembra

Join us for a conversation with Chris Schembra, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, USA Today’s “Gratitude Guru”, and Founder and Chief Question Asker of 7:47 Gratitude Experience™, as we unlock the friendship factor.

Toolkits

Beating Burnout

Use this interactive Quick Guide to explore 5 strategies to beat burnout.

Toolkits

Enabling Well-Being Through Safety

This resource is designed to help you evaluate your own organization to determine how to best support safety to then enable well-being.

Articles

Profile of a Supportive Leader for Employee Wellness

Discover the 4 main characteristics of a supportive leader for successful workplace wellness initiatives.

Webinars

Leadership Strategies for Workplace Wellness Success

Organizational structure directly reflects a company’s broader priorities and long-term strategies for business success.

Expert Interviews

The First Steps of Developing Managers into Wellness Champions with Jack Bastable

Get the first steps to take as a manager for yourself and with your team. Here what’s most important to succeed with many of us now managing remotely.

Webinars

New Research: Best Practices in Workplace Wellness

Wellness Alliance partnered with the Returns on Wellbeing Institute on a research study of 20 organizations with exemplary employee wellness initiatives. In this event, we will share key findings, hear from organizations that participated in the study, and provide insights on how you can achieve better employee and business outcomes.

Expert Interviews

Eating Well: The Mayo Prescription for Good Nutrition with Dr. Donald Hensrud

Ryan Picarella, Wellness Alliance, sits down with Dr. Donald Hensrud for the Mayo perspective on food.

Case Studies

Mastering Leadership Support for Wellness with Rachel Druckenmiller

Hear a quick case study of how Rachel Druckenmiller, Director of Wellbeing at SIG, has mastered gaining leadership support for wellness in her own organization and for clients.

Employee Facing Resources

Lowe’s Leadership Communication to Employees Sample

An important requirement of leading a healthy company is communication. To be effective, the CEO must communicate the importance of wellness to employees and make it a priority throughout the company.

Chief Well-Being Officer Toolkit

Well-being is becoming a strategic priority for the C-suite and developing a Workplace Wellness Strategy that contributes to long- lasting and scalable culture change takes a village to achieve.

Key Mindsets for Mastering Checklist

Complete these worksheets with leadership and/or your wellness team to help determine your strategic wellness goals.

“It Starts with Us” Leadership Campaign Communications: Mental Health Awareness Month Example

A wellness campaign and leadership communications example for Mental Health Awareness Month.

Inspired Leadership Training Activity and Resource Packet

This quick guide provides an activity packet, breathwork practices, articles, and supplemental resources to help inspire leaders to promote workplace wellness.

Articles

14 Must-Reads for Wellness Leaders

Wellness Alliance’s recommended reading list brings you the very best book suggestions for implementing the 7 Benchmarks of the Well Workplace.

Toolkits

Benchmark 1: Committed and Aligned Leadership Toolkit

Benchmark #1 is about having leaders throughout the organization that are deeply committed to the wellness of employees and wellness in their own lives is an important first step to creating a successful worksite wellness strategy.

Toolkits

Benchmark 1: Committed and Aligned Leadership Additional Resources

Additional resources to help you gain leadership support for wellness in your organization or those that you consult.

The Engagement Gap

Check out our survey results, and get four specific recommendations to help employees move more and sit less.

Employee Facing Resources

Low Stress Eating

In this employee education presentation, take a closer look at the bidirectional relationship of stress and nutrition.

Burnout & Resilience in the Workplace

This resource provides common signs of burnout and ways to build resilience in the workplace.

Expert Interviews

Just What the Sleep Doctor Ordered with Dr. Michael Breus

How does the quality of our sleep impact our performance at work? Read on to learn a new slant on sleep and the workplace.

Expert Interviews

The Exciting World of Well Building with Paul Scialla

What if you could structure an environment where your employees could experience improved health, well-being, productivity and performance?

Creating a Culture of Wellness: Sample Quick Culture Inventory

Use this simple tool which will help to identify which of the major elements of your culture that need to be addressed in order to create a healthier climate for your employees.

Health Culture Sample Audit

This powerful tool helps to make the data collection process easy.

The Unmentionables of Wellness with Alexandra Drane

Alexandra Drane discusses what some of “The Unmentionables” are and what do we do about them.

Job Satisfaction Sample Survey

To know what policies will be most effective when designing your worksite wellness program, you must first engage employees and get to know where they’re coming from.

Measures that Matter

Data collection should measure what matters most to both the organization and the employees.

Measuring Well-Being Planning Template

This resource provides you with a template to help develop an evaluation strategy to measure what matters most in your organization.

Toolkits

Benchmark 3: Meaningful Data Additional Resources

Additional resources that will provide you with strategies for determining the type of data to collect.

Toolkits

Workplace Wellness Legal Compliance Checklist

Use this checklist to help you identify compliance issues that may arise during the development of your workplace wellness program.

Sample Resources

Employee Needs and Interests Sample Survey

To help you in your programming efforts, here’s a useful tool that other companies have implemented to find out what their employees really want and need from a health promotion program.

Employee Facing Resources

Setting Up Your Home Office

This beautifully designed resource provides your employees with tips to consider when setting up their home office or workspace.

Employee Facing Resources

Eat Right for Life

The "Eat Right For Life" Challenge will inspire participants to focus on the five basic tenets for making healthy food choices, as outlined in Dr. Ann Kulze’s "Eat Right For Life" book.

Expert Interviews

Financial Wellness with Dr. Russell Robinson and Saundra & Sidney Curry

In this conversation, Saundra and Sid share their research regarding the relationship between financial wellness with stress and well-being.

Expert Interviews

Employee Engagement with Dr. Russell Robinson and Dr. Brad Shuck

In this conversation, Brad shares recent research linking organizational culture, through bio-markers, to actual health outcomes.

Expert Interviews

Emotional Intelligence with Dr. Russell Robinson and Faroshia Ashley

In this conversation, Faroshia talks about how a leader’s ability to manage stress impacts his/her interpersonal connections, self-perceptions and ultimately decision making.

Toolkits

Benchmark 3: Collecting Meaningful Data to Evolve a Wellness Strategy Toolkit

This toolkit will help you determine what information you need to know to help employees live better lives and create the organizational culture that you want.

Expert Interviews

Physical Wellness with Dr. Russell Robinson and Dr. Toni Lewis

In this conversation, Dr. Lewis talks about the impact of the pandemic and social justice issues on wellness, and some of the equitable challenges of wellness from the perspective of diversity and inclusion.

Expert Interviews, Toolkits

Research Design with Dr. Russell Robinson and Dr. Jessica Broome

In this conversation, Jessica shares her thoughts on how to conduct research from determining the right questions to creating an environment where data is actionable.

Preventing Job Stress by Jim Porter

In this exclusive Wellness Alliance whitepaper, nationally-acclaimed stress expert and author Jim Porter offers a way to help us cope with our stress.

Expert Interviews

Leadership Lessons from a Three-Star General Lt. Gen. Kowalski

Learn about increasing employee performance, expanding your influence as a professional, and what makes a leader great.

Wellness Program Provisioning

Use the two exercises in this resource to do just that and learn to identify priorities as you work through Wellness Alliance’s Well Workplace Process.

Self-Care for Caregivers

Wellness Alliance developed this quick guide specifically for caregivers with tips and resources to help guide them in the caregiving journey.

Helping Employees in Caregiving Roles

In Wellness Alliance’s Quick Guide resource, learn how you as an employer can help employees manage some of the unintended consequences they may feel as caregivers.

Toolkits

Eat Right For Life – The Family Plan with Dr. Ann Kulze

In this exclusive Wellness Alliance Expert Interview, medical doctor and nutrition expert Dr. Ann Kulze shares how to tackle this critical cost driver for organizations.

Expert Interviews

How to Improve Culture at Your Organization with Josh Levine

In this expert interview with Josh Levine you’ll hear about the role of culture change in the success of the nation’s top companies.

Toolkits

Hybrid Work Sample Survey

Use this sample survey to determine the various factors regarding hybrid work impacting employees within your organization.

Toolkits

Social Wellness Sample Survey

Use this sample survey to determine the social wellness of your employees within your organization.

Toolkits

Financial Wellness Sample Survey

Use this sample survey to determine the financial wellness of the employees within your organization.

Toolkits

Data Collection Checklist

This checklist will help you determine what information you need to know to help employees live better lives and create the organizational culture that you want.

Case Studies

One Company’s Journey To A Holistic Wellness Strategy Away From Outcomes-Based Programming

This case study highlights a list of insights they gained since their decision to work toward improving the way they do wellness.

WorkSmart Stretching Poster

Download the WorkSmart Stretching Plan poster and share these daily stretches with your employees.

Webinars

The Caregiving Crisis: How to Support Your Workforce Now and into the Future

A conversation about how workplaces can care for their caregivers now and into the future.

“Sit for 60, Move for 3” Poster

Use this “Sit For 60, Move For 3” poster to inspire physical activity in your workforce.

Expert Interviews

Lifestyle as Medicine with Dr. David Katz

Ryan Picarella, Wellness Alliance, sat down with Dr. David Katz for an illuminating conversation about what the medical community really knows about disease prevention.

Toolkits

Well Workplace Checklist Toolkit

These resources can assist you in preparing to take the Well Workplace Checklist.

What is the Well Workplace Checklist?

See an overview of the Well Workplace Process.

Preparing to Take the Checklist

Resource to assist in preparing to take the Checklist.

Checklist Preparation Worksheets

A compilation of worksheets for each of the seven benchmarks to assist in preparing to complete the checklist questionnaire.

Benchmark Report Results

View a sample benchmark report you will receive after completing the Checklist.

Well Workplace Checklist Questions

Take the guess work out of determining your organization’s wellness strategy. Download Wellness Alliance’s Well Workplace Checklist questions to prepare your team for the checklist online.

Articles

10 Secrets of Successful Worksite Wellness Teams

In this article, we’ll share the 10 secrets of successful worksite wellness teams.

Toolkits

Wellness Team Meeting Template

Check out a sample of the wellness team meeting agenda which is used to track and report progress at each wellness team meeting.

Toolkits

Wellness Operating Plans with Lisa Krieg and Katie Sarno

Lisa Krieg and Katie Sarno of the West Ohio Regional Healthcare Alliance discuss their successes, the power of the operating plan, and the importance of CEO support.

Well Balanced-January 2025

This month the Well-Balanced resource focuses on tips for making health and wellness resolutions in the new year.

Well Balanced-February 2025

This month the Well-Balanced resource focuses on tips for preventing heart disease.

Employee Facing Resources, Toolkits

Stop Stress This Minute

This 8-week employee incentive challenge takes the action-oriented strategies presented in WELCOA’s Stop Stress This Minute book and helps employees methodically put an action plan into practice to lower their stress number and balance stress in their lives.

Mindful Mini Breaks

You can use this resource to learn how to incorporate meditative breathing into your regular routine or simply as-needed.

Well Balanced-March 2025

This month the Well-Balanced resource focuses on tips for portion control and mindful eating to support overall nutrition.

Well Balanced-April 2025

Stress can be both positive and negative, and managing it effectively can improve physical and mental well-being.

Well Balanced-May 2025

Focused on tips for reducing stress through laughter, these printable and digital resources can be customized for your employee health and wellness communications.

Well Balanced-June 2025

This Well-Balanced resource focuses on tips for supporting healthy cognitive function.

Legal Helpdesk and Research Service

Well Balanced-July 2025

These printable, digital resources are perfect for organizational leadership to customize health and wellness communications for their employees. This Well-Balanced resource focuses on healthy habits for hot weather.

Well Balanced-November 2025

These printable, digital resources are perfect for organizational leadership to customize health and wellness communications for their employees. This Well-Balanced resource focuses on National Family Caregivers month.

Well Balanced-August 2025

These printable, digital resources are perfect for organizational leadership to customize health and wellness communications for their employees. This Well-Balanced resource focuses on grief.

Well Balanced-September 2025

These printable, digital resources are perfect for organizational leadership to customize health and wellness communications for their employees. This Well-Balanced resource focuses on suicide prevention.

Well Balanced-October 2025

These printable, digital resources are perfect for organizational leadership to customize health and wellness communications for their employees. This Well-Balanced resource focuses on Breast Cancer and Liver Cancer awareness month.

2026 Well Balanced Monthly Observances Calendar

Download and share monthly wellness newsletters to deliver the essential information your employees and clients need.

The 4 F’s of Identifying & Managing Mental Health Issues at Work

Use this Quick Guide to help create a framework to work from to identify and manage mental health at the workplace.

Beneath the Surface: Why Mental Well-Being Is Critical in the Workplace

Use this Quick Guide for three ways employers can help with mental well-being in the workplace.

Building from a Solid Foundation with Andy Crighton

In this interview, WELCOA’s Sara Martin Rauch sits down with Prudential Financial’s Chief Medical Officer Andy Crighton to get a better sense of how Prudential Financial, a Fortune 500 Global Company, has created a standout mental health strategy, and what the outcomes are for their employees and their business.

Conversations About Workplace Grief

This quick guide was designed to help ease into conversations around grief at the workplace.

Creating Psychologically Safe Workplaces

Use this Quick Guide to find out what psychological safety at work entails and how to take steps to creating psychologically safe workplaces.

Toolkits

Creating Psychologically Safe Workplaces Sample Assessment

Find out if your team is high, medium, or low on psychological safety with this assessment.

Luv u Project with Rich Mattingly

In this interview, WELCOA’s Sara Martin Rauch sits down with project founder Rich Mattingly to learn more about the project, and get a better sense for how we can best address mental health in our organizations.

Employee Facing Resources

Mindfulness Enhances Resilience

This beautifully designed resource is ready to share with your employees to help guide them on ways to use mindfulness to increase their resilience.

Employee Facing Resources

Supporting a Coworker in Crisis

Share this guide with your employees to increase awareness of stigma-free language, warning signs, and what to say if they are concerned about a coworker.

Mental Health Toolkit Additional Resources

Additional resources to educate yourself, lead with vulnerability and compassion, and create a workplace that nourishes employees’ mental health.

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Well Workplace: Mental Health Toolkit

Use this toolkit to educate yourself, lead with vulnerability and compassion, and create a game plan using Wellness Alliance’s 7 Benchmarks framework to create a workplace that nourishes employees’ mental health.

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Identify Your Problem/Opportunity Statement: Moving From a Wellness Problem to a Business-Focused Problem

Use this quick guide to understand the specifics of what you need support for and determine who you need it from.

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Terms of Agreement Sample

Use this sample policy as reference for a terms of agreement document.

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Collaboration Self-Assessment Sample Survey

Use this sample survey to learn where you excel and can improve collaboration skills.

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Walk the Walk: Leader Wellness “Rhythm” Meetings Guide

A facilitation guide and series of prompts for leaders to put wellness at the front and center during weekly individual and team meetings.

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Leadership Workplace Wellness Initiative Feedback Focus Group Facilitation Guide

Facilitation guide aimed at collecting feedback and ideas from your leadership team/stakeholders on the progress of your Workplace Wellness Program.

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Avoid “Recreating the Wheel”: Opportunities for Influence and Culture Change Reference Guide

A review of 8 key programs, strategies and systems that are natural integration points for your Workplace Wellness Program.

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Individual Wellness Plan (IWP) Template

A fillable template owned by the leader (or team member) for wellness self-development and role modeling.

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Business Allyship: A Playbook for Influence

A reference guide aimed at developing your coaching and influence to drive buy-in, decision making, and ultimately the business partnership needed to make your Workplace Wellness Program a success.

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Stakeholder Workplace Wellness Program “Personas” Worksheet

A fillable worksheet (with examples) used to establish and communicate progress and measures of success to your key stakeholders.

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Internal Workplace Wellness Evaluation Plan

A fillable worksheet (with examples template) aimed at helping you understand and empathize with your key stakeholders by creating “personas” for each of your stakeholder groups.

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Developing Your Vision and Mission Statements

Get some ideas for developing the best statements to represent your organization and wellness program.

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Assess Your Company's Leadership Support for Employee Wellness Sample Survey

If you’ve been looking for a tool to assess your company’s leadership support for wellness, here’s a useful tool that can help you.

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6 Steps for Capturing Leadership Support for Wellness Initiatives

This engaging exercise is designed to get you and your team members moving in the right direction.

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Workplace Wellness Organizational Identity Audit: Facilitation Guide

A guided facilitation guide aimed at facilitating a discussion around wellness integration into key organizational identity elements including organizational purpose, mission, vision, values, and behaviors.

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5 Questions to Ask: Learn How Leadership Values Workplace Wellness

Get to know your company leaders ideas of workplace wellness by asking the suggested questions.

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Creating Sustainable Habit Change in Your Company Culture

As you are planning your workplace wellness interventions, use the Habits at Work tactical approaches to create alignment with your well workplace strategy and operating plan.

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Accountability, Alignment, and Ownership

Use this quick guide to learn how accountability, alignment, and ownership make collaboration work.

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Best Practices for Collaboration

Use this quick guide to reference best practices for collaborating.