Inspiring Healthy Workplaces by TotalWellness

In this episode, Alan Kohll talks with Dr. Richard Kim, Vice President, Chief Medical Officer at American Express, about the changes they have made during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep employees healthy. Since the pandemic, Amex has really shown their employees that they have their backs and have pivoted to offer resources and services virtual. Amex has hosted a variety of webinars around topics such as coping with COVID-19, building resilience, providing insight and tips on how to speak to children about the pandemic and much more. 

For over 100 years, Cox Enterprises has been obsessed with innovating their businesses, creating a great workplace for their people and making the planet a better place to live. They are a global, $21 billion, family-owned organization with two major divisions — Cox Communications and Cox Automotive. From daily yoga and fitness classes to guided meditations and mental health resources, Cox Enterprises is helping its employees strengthen their physical and mental well-being. In this episode, Alan Kohll talks with Jon Gamble VP of Benefits for Cox about how COVID-19 has changed its employee wellness program.

In this episode, Alan talks with Marissa Andrada, chief people officer at Chipotle about how the fast-casual brand is delivering new benefits to ensure employee health and wellness. Back in January, Chipotle partnered with 98point6 to provide text-based primary care, a service that has become even more valuable during a pandemic. 

Many employers had to restructure their workforces in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and mandatory stay-at-home orders. What happens when the orders are lifted and employees return to work? In this episode, Alan Kohll explores how companies are preparing to get back to work with Dr. Joann Schaefer, who served as the Chief Medical Officer for Nebraska, Ryan Wolf from Gallup and Kenton Hicks with TotalWellness. The eclectic group talks about antibody testing, social distancing rules, mental health concerns, and other COIVID-19 impacts to the workforce. 

In this episode, Alan Kohll talks with Michael Susi from LinkedIn. Michael joined LinkedIn in 2011 to start the company’s wellness program. He is currently the Director of Wellness and has scaled the employee wellness program to serve the company’s 16,000+ employees through the Six Tenets of Wellness. The six tenets include Thoughts; Breathing; Hydration; Nutrition; Movement; and Rest. Michael also talks about how LinkedIn is addressing coronavirus with its workforce. 

Along with proper nutrition and exercise, getting quality sleep is an important pillar of health. dayzz has created a personalized sleep training app that evaluates a number of sleep issues and offers a complete, holistic sleep improvement solution. It is a unique new service in the sleep app landscape, relying on evidence-based protocols and backed by leading physicians and therapists. Alan Kohll talks with Amir Inditzky, CEO and Dr. Mairav Cohen-Zion, Chief Science Officer to learn more about this sleep solution, which New Balance recently rolled out. 

In this episode, Alan Kohll talks with Jen Fisher from Deloitte about their comprehensive well-being program, which provides support across three tiers – Mind, Body & Purpose. As the chief well-being officer in the US, Jen drives the strategy and innovation around work-life, health, and wellness to empower Deloitte’s people to be well so they can perform at their best in both their professional and personal lives.

In this episode, Alan Kohll talks with Backbone Media founder Penn Newhard. Founded in 1997, with offices in Denver and Carbondale, Backbone is one of Colorado’s fastest growing agencies, providing public relations, media planning and buying, social media and content marketing services to a wide variety of brands targeting active lifestyle audiences. Clients include Yeti, Eddie Bauer, New Belgium Brewing, SmartWool, Polartec, and Patagonia. The office empties out every day at midday so employees can recharge on group rides, trail runs, and Nordic ski sessions or at the gym and in the yoga studio. In summer, they have Dirty Thursday group mountain bike rides. In winter, Backbone has a powder-day clause that encourages employees to ski if there’s fresh snow.

In this episode, Alan Kohll interviews Bhawna Provenzano from Zappos. Bhawna, the director of employee benefits and diversity at Zappos, has helped grow the wellness program at the company over the last nine years. A new wellness initiative called 'Strum for the Sole' offers access to the Fender Play app that gives employees access to online lessons for acoustic and electric guitars, bass and the ukulele. Zappos has even dedicated a jam room on its corporate campus in Las Vegas where employees can go to relax during the workday. The company says it creates social connections, reduces stress and encourages people to slow down and express creativity.

In this episode, Alan Kohll talks with John Wilson, co-founder and president of Stance and Director of Wellness and Trainer, Naomi Talbo. Stance is a sock and underwear brand with 300+ employees in San Clemente, California. Since its inception, Stance has not only invested in great employees, but has also worked toward offering them the benefits they need to lead diverse and cultured lives. STANCE carefully crafted it’s core values which focus on entrepreneurship, creativity, performance, personal responsibility and gratitude - and using these as the foundation for everything the company does. These values have fostered a healthy work culture that’s fueled by passion.