Sample Highlights of Wellness Consulting Experience

Thought Leader

• Transformed Telus Mobility’s traditional approach to workplace wellness by creating and expanding a targeted, multi dimensional program which garnered media attention, won awards and was used as a case study for an American business text. Key to the success of the program was tireless marketing, surveying, scaleability, maintaining executive champions and resourceful problem solving.
• Selected features of the program included:
• Affordability, demographic and geographic appeal, accessibility, visibility and business impact
• National massage program started as a marketing tool but became a strategic offering, “Massage Monday”, during a 5-month work stoppage to demonstrate ongoing investment in employees – 25 massage therapists were mobilized across the country at all company sites throughout the strike
• Pedometer walking program with built in motivational and marketing tools. Program contributed to team development and improved employee relations
• Walk a dog program in partnership with local shelter
• Negotiated win-win partnerships with many national and local organizations such as Corporate Health Services, Massage Garage, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Victoria Order of Nurses and Goodlife Fitness, offering services and significant discounts for employees.
• Successfully embedded wellness into culture by maintaining a presence at appropriate company events i.e. at corporate barbeques offered healthy food alternatives, ran corporate fundraising teams, etc
• Ensured “grassroots” and a “high touch” approach to program development and implementation by actively involving employee volunteers, from all levels, as wellness Ambassadors

Creative Solution Finder 

• Overcame challenges to continually and creatively market wellness programs and to efficiently register employees for events. For example,
• When prevented from using company e-mail to market wellness as per an IT edict, registration for wellness activities was down by 90%
• Within two  months of introducing a unique e-mail list serve and automated online registration process, participation rates were again normalized
• Provided customized interventions annually based on growing requests from senior managers struggling with employee and team health and productivity issues.
• Ensured wellness offerings met and exceeded registration targets in spite of increasing demands on employee resources
• Created customized online Health and Wellness employee surveys and developed plans and programs to address findings

Industry & Social Advocate - Volunteer

• Teach within the post-graduate Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion program at Centennial College and volunteer member of the Program Advisory Committee
• Heart & Stroke Foundation "survivor" spokesperseon - delivered a number of keynote speeches and regularly interviewed on radio and daytime TV programs as the Heart & Stroke’s volunteer media spokesperson
• Centennial College program advisory committee (PAC) member
• Various volunteer roles within her children’s schools, including wellness-related classroom workshops
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences, co-chair sponsorship, Canada's 1st fundraising walk for depression
• Centennial College Wellness alumni association (past secretary) 

Professional Affiliations

• Centennial College program advisory - workplace wellness & health promotion
• Council on Workplace Health & Wellness, Conference Board of Canada (member)
• Health, Work and Wellness (conference delegate and Ambassador)