Workplace Wellness Centre of Excellence

08/26/2026

Dolly Parton’s life was a true masterclass in how to stay young, vibrant, passionate, generous and authentic.

Her legendary perspective served as the perfect reminder to keep dreaming and creating every single day:

“If you allow yourself to get old, you will!” 💖

Let’s carry that energy and mindset forward today in her memory.

Let’s keep her spark alive!

RIP Dolly…never stop shining your light. We’ll do the same!

08/10/2026

For years, "Workplace Wellness" was a top-down initiative. But the Workplace Wellness Centre of Excellence is proposing a different approach.

Learn how via my latest article below!

For years, "Workplace Wellness" was a top-down initiative. Employers built wellness portals, offered fitness discounts, and hoped for engagement.

07/22/2026

In a healthy organization, identifying a problem is the first step toward a solution.

In a toxic one, identifying a problem often makes YOU the problem.

We’ve all seen it happen—or perhaps you’ve lived it...

Learn more in my latest blog below.

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07/16/2026

As the Workplace Wellness Center of Excellence helps organizations shift from fixing the person to fixing the system (in part through our new courses), a new role is being carved out as the linchpin of this transformation: the newly evolved, team-embedded Workplace Wellness Champion.

While senior leadership sets the vision and HR designs policies, it is the skilled Wellness Champion, working directly within a functional team, who ensures that organizational design translates into a healthy daily reality.

Effective Wellness Champions are not just cheerleaders for healthy habits; they are the on-the-ground architects of team culture.

Curious how this emerging role will help influence and shape organizational design? Subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletter, "Cultivating Vibrant Workplaces," to learn more via our next issue in August.

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07/02/2026

At the Workplace Wellness Centre of Excellence, our singular mission is to elevate industry standards.

We don't just aim to meet expectations—we exist to raise the bar and set a new benchmark for excellence through our newly enhanced global certificate courses.

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06/25/2026

[ARTICLE] THE HIDDEN COSTS OF DE-HUMANIZING WORK

The following sentiment by Dr. Raghu Krishnamoorthy in his LinkedIn newsletter, We Expand Our Machines and Shrink Our People, " is tragically sobering...

"What a world we have come to… We treat machines like they matter and people like they don’t. The machine gets our best thinking. The human gets our leftovers!”

With the accelerated pace and disruption of AI, and the associated impacts on employee and organizational well-being, this topic lands hard.

Inspired by Raghu's commentary, I felt compelled to continue this critical conversation in this issue of “Cultivating Vibrant Workplaces.”

Read it out below, kindly LIKE and share, and offer your thoughts in the Comments to help this important conversation get the attention it deserves!

The following sentiment by Dr. Raghu Krishnamoorthy in his LinkedIn newsletter, We Expand Our Machines and Shrink Our People, " is tragically sobering.

06/18/2026

The elevated role of Wellness Champions!

High-performing Workplace Wellness programs aren’t built on posters, portals, or one-off events—they’re built on people.

The organizations that see the strongest engagement and the most sustainable results are the ones that leverage a strong, active, highly skilled “Workplace Wellness Champion” Network.

Empowered Wellness Champions act as the bridge between a centralized wellness strategy and day-to-day employee experience.

They help translate initiatives into team-level actions, normalize participation, and create consistent touchpoints that keep wellbeing visible year-round.

They are a bridge between leaders and employees — their needs and expectations.

Because Champions are embedded across teams/departments and locations, they also make wellness more inclusive—ensuring programming reflects different roles, schedules, and realities.

What sets thriving programs apart is how intentionally the champion network is developed.

When Champions are selected thoughtfully, trained in communication and behavior-change basics, equipped with ready-to-use resources, and supported with clear expectations and recognition, they become a distributed engine for culture.

They surface barriers early, provide feedback loops that improve programming, and keep leaders connected to what’s working on the ground.

In short, wellness programs thrive when Champions aren’t an afterthought—they’re a core strategy.

An empowered Champion network is how wellbeing becomes part of “how we do things here,” not just something the organization offers.

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06/11/2026

06/09/2026

Employees (and leaders) have never felt lonelier, more disillusioned, or isolated than they do today! Discover in this issue of "Cultivating Vibrant Workplaces" the critical importance of newly imagined, redefined, and elevated "Workplace Wellness Champions" in today's fragmented and disconnected work environment.

Employees (and leaders) have never felt lonelier, more disillusioned, or isolated than they do today! Discover in this issue of "Cultivating Vibrant Workplaces" the critical importance of newly imagined, redefined, and elevated "Workplace Wellness Champions" in today's fragmented and disconnected wo

05/22/2026

Differentiating and managing “silent reflux” (LPR)…One of the many critically important health and wellbeing topics we will be addressing/coaching with HR leaders in our new “VITALITY HUB for HR Leaders” launching this fall!

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