Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm

specializing in helping organizations drive team engagement in service of delivering stronger results.

And one of the key drivers of engagement is workplace wellness. Workplace wellness has featured

recently in many of my conversations and client engagements. Everyone

seems to know it matters, like generically, but people are struggling with what to do, specifically.

It's been interesting to watch the evolution of workplace wellness over the now alarming number of

years I've been in the workplace. When I joined the

world of adulting, both workplace and wellness were words that most people could use in a sentence,

but as a pair, not really. In the middle part of my working years, workplace wellness did come to

have meaning, and that meaning was usually about crisis hotlines or smoking cessation or memberships to Weight Watchers.

It was literally the workplace's attempt to support your physical wellness.

Today, the meaning of workplace wellness has expanded pretty significantly.

It's come to be about your physical and emotional wellness, both in and out of the

workplace. It's about more than just keeping sickness or addiction at bay. It's about supporting

employees in feeling balanced and connected and confident in managing their own energy.

It means time on and off are both valued, and it has a lot of moving parts. I'm really excited

to see the direction that it's taken, but the problem I'm seeing is that everyone wants it,

but no one seems really clear on whose job it is to make it happen. Today, I'm here with a point

of view, and that is that workplace wellness is everybody's job. I believe

there's a role for the organization to play, another for team leaders to play, and finally,

I think every employee has a job to do in driving workplace wellness. So let's talk about what this

looks like in a working workplace. Let's start with the organization's job in supporting workplace wellness.

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