In Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, one elementary school is paving the way for the future of health and wellness in school districts across the nation. Allamanda Elementary School is pioneering programs to improve the lives of students and families – programs…
What’s Ahead in Wellness for 2018? Last Year’s Trends Offer Some Answers
To get a sense of what to expect on the employee health and wellness front in 2018, it’s useful to look back on the trends that were gaining momentum last year. To better understand those trends, Optum surveyed 240 human resource professionals in large companies…
Meditation and Mindfulness for Better Overall Health
By Danielle Keenan, Health Management Specialist, Keenan First of all, what’s the difference between mindfulness and meditation? They’re closely related but slightly different. Meditation can be viewed as a way to clear the mind, let go, and achieve peace…
Going Gaga for our Best Self – Warrior Women in Wellness Award
This article is the second in a series examining the impact of women in the wellness world. You can find the first article here. Singing the National Anthem at the 2016 Super Bowl is Lady Gaga’s well-deserved accolade to young women whose star wattage rests…
Corporate Wellness Programs – What’s Working, What’s Not
Employee engagement is crucial to sustaining a strong wellness program. The initial goal of implementing a wellness program within an organization is to reduce healthcare costs. And while that goal has remained constant as the corporate wellness industry has…
Mayo’s Growth in Wellness to Expand as it Keeps its Focus ‘People-Centric’
Rather than pursue mergers and acquisitions as the recipe for growth, the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. is relying on its reputable standard of meaningful face-to-face interaction and building its own growth strategy by scaling its knowledge and…
GE Brings Wellness to Life
We asked Jason Morgan, director of Global Health and Wellness at GE Healthcare, about the company’s wellness program and ROI, creating a culture of wellness, and the role of incentives, gamification and much more. Corporate Wellness Magazine: What about…
Wellness Architect: Healthy, Productive Employees Translate to Success
Cardone Industries, Inc., founded in 1970, is a leading supplier of automotive replacement parts with 6,000 employees across the United States, Canada and Mexico. A family-owned business, health benefit plans are self-funded at Cardone, which serves both as…
Will Fitness Trackers Like The Apple Watch Revolutionise Corporate Wellness?
Almost every employer understands the benefits of engaging employees in wellness. These benefits include a potential saving of £1600 ($2461.60) per employee per year from the reductions in absenteeism and presenteeism[i]. In spite of this, a new study revealed…
Best Practices: Incentive Design Strategies
Designing and launching incentives for a wellness program can be confusing and overwhelming. This information is provided to give employers an overview of the most common incentive strategies, the range of participation based on amount of incentive, and what’s…
The Future of Wellness
There are two ways to forecast the future: Talk to leaders in the fields you’re interested in, and ask what’s coming. Guess Taking wisdom from no less than author Jules Verne and author/physicist Michio Kaku, let’s stick with No. 1 to assess where corporate…
Wellness: America’s Commander-in-Chef Can Take Heat in Kitchen
Nutritionists will be the first to say that healthy workers who eat the right foods are likely to increase their energy levels, improve their immune systems and perform better on the job. Now think of the heat in the kitchen, then, that Sam Kass walks into…
