Wellness Coaches USA

Boosting Workplace Wellness Outcomes

Wellness Coaches USA

• Onsite wellness coaching has been our exclusive business focus for 10+ years

• All necessary systems, software, platforms and processes developed by us

• Largest staff of onsite wellness coaches in U.S.

• 450+ customer locations – all sizes (100 lives to 10,000’s+)

• Virtually all business classifications

• 37 states throughout the country

• Local and regional, to Fortune 100 employers

Workplace Wellness: The Underlying Issue…Health Risk Factors

Health care and related costs (including injury and productivity costs) are a terrible drain on employer profitability, and are continuing to rise at

unsustainable levels.

Preventable and manageable health risk factors* (behavioral and biomedical) are the primary drivers of the poor health and chronic

medical conditions which drive these costs.

*Including poor diet and nutrition, physical inactivity, tobacco use, excessive alcohol use, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,

high blood glucose, overweight and obesity, stress, and depression

Workplace Wellness…The Solution…The Last, Best Hope

The Workplace Wellness Goal…

…LARGE-SCALE improvement in the number of preventable and manageable employee population health risk factors*

*Large-scale means enough employee population improvement to substantively improve employee population health risk factors

and associated costs…from an enterprise perspective.

Boosting Workplace Wellness Outcomes…Sample Study

This presentation is based upon our analysis of a very large Sample Study of employer wellness programs. The study measured changes in health risk factors (over approximately a

one year period) for 20+ employers with in excess of 750,000 eligible lives (mostly all employees).

Each of the employers generally made a comprehensive range of workplace wellness resources available to their employees, including:

Testing Resources – biometric screens, HA’s, etc.

Educational and Promotional Resources –health education, online portals, lifestyle management programs, health promotion programs and events, etc.

Incentives

Wellness Coaching (telephonic/online)

Of These Resources and Programs…Wellness Coaching…

Has proven to be the most critical…

That’s because improving health risk factors is such a complex, difficult process…that requires such a high level of personal commitment and

effort…for such an extended period of time that…

Most people do not have the tenacity or skill… ON THEIR OWN…

…to achieve and sustain improvement in health risk factors

That’s where wellness coaching comes in…to provide the professional competency that most people need to “master their

own wellness”

To Prove the Point…5X the Risk Reduction!

So…if most people need wellness coaching to help them “master” their own wellness…

It necessarily follows that the more people in any population who engage in wellness coaching, the greater the level of

population risk reduction

For example, in the Sample Study…

The subgroup of employees who were coached achieved over…

5X… …the risk reduction of the group who was not coached

The Disconnect…

That’s why most comprehensive “best practice” workplace wellness strategies include a

telephonic/online wellness coaching component…

Yet…even the “best practice” workplace wellness programs…

Achieve only very limited or modest…at best…improvement in the prevalence of employee

population health risks…

Here’s What We Mean (And These Results Are Typical)

The Sample Study’s approximately 750,000 employees…

Averaged* only 77 health risk factors improved* for every 1,000 employee population lives…in other words, no more

than 77 employees out of every 1,000 improved a risk factor…

By Any Standard…That’s modest…at best!

And since costs follow health risks, it follows that improvement in such a limited number of health risks only produces limited cost containment

*That’s 77 health risk factors improved out of a total of over 3,000 risk factors for every 1,000

employee lives.

Moving From limited or Modest…to Excellent?

Consider…

Only 15% of employees in The Study engaged in wellness coaching*…

Can you imagine the outcomes if the number of employees who engaged in wellness coaching…

Increased substantially…

Say…6X…from 15% to 90%

*15% is a relatively high rate…most often well under 10%

The Boost!

Risk Factor Improvement would also increase

substantially… from 77 risk factors per 1,000

employees to approximately 230 for every 1,000

lives…

Engagement Is The Key…

So…

Substantially higher levels of engagement in wellness coaching will “supercharge” workplace

wellness outcomes…

Boosting improvement in health risk factors to higher levels than ever before possible…

Engagement

Assembling a comprehensive collection of “best-practice” wellness resources and programs is the easy part.

• Stimulating very high levels of engagement in their use, and most importantly, in wellness coaching

supported efforts to improve health risk factors…

• …Is today’s great workplace wellness challenge…the factor most limiting workplace wellness outcomes

And There IS A Way…

…A way to substantially boost engagement in wellness coaching…

A way which correspondingly produces much greater improvement in employee population health risk factors

than ever before possible…

It’s called…Onsite Wellness Coaching…

Onsite Wellness Coaching…

Wellness Coaching delivered directly to employees in the workplace…the only place where they are readily accessible and

available, in concentration…

The only place where it is possible to reach out, engage and coach all as onsite wellness coaches work with and among

employees…

• Live and Private •

• Regular and Frequent •

• One-on-One •

• FACE-to-FACE

Process Rules…

Most importantly though…it’s all about the Process… •

It’s not simply a matter of putting or placing a person in the workplace to coordinate wellness programs, and calling them a

“coach”… •

Rather, it’s about placing a highly trained wellness coach in the workplace to implement a comprehensive process designed to…

Engage entire employee populations in coaching, and then…

Coach them all forward…moving entire employee populations to the greatest possible improvement in health risk factors and quality of life

Experience Matters…

It is now recognized that onsite wellness coaching offers the best, most viable path to workplace wellness success.

That’s why there are many workplace wellness vendors that now say they provide onsite wellness coaching…

However, be careful…the delivery of wellness coaching onsite, directly to the workplace, is a highly specialized practice…

Find an onsite provider that hasn’t just jumped on the bandwagon because they see the “handwriting on the wall”…

Wellness Works… Wellness Works Best With Coaches in the Workplace