Connecting with Nature to Improve Mental Health and Resilience
Can connecting to nature help improve our mental health and personal resilience in the age of COVID-19? Melanie Choukas-Bradley believes it can.
Stress Reduction at Work
Healthy work from home habits in the age of COVID-19
How can you stay healthy, productive (and sane) in the age of coronavirus? Here are…
Forest Bathing 101: An Interview with Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Have you heard of the term forest bathing? If you're like me, you may have heard …
Being an Outsider at Work
Being an Outsider at Work If you’ve bought anything from LL Bean recently you might…
The Intersection between Caregiving, Leadership, and Financial Wellbeing
GW4W launches first white paper! As some of you may know, I’m heavily involved wi…
Lose Some Efficiency to Build Reserve Capacity
Ever feel like you've got everything under control, then something unplanned happens…
How to Design an Emotionally Safe Workplace
How can we design an emotionally safe workplace in this era of exposed sexual harass…
Why Work Isn’t Working
For a long time, I’ve been helping clients redesign their workplaces and improve the…
Aetna’s Chief Mindfulness Officer: An Interview with Andy Lee
There are a number of stories out there of individuals who have benefitted from the …
Stress Management in the Workplace
When it comes to work and workplace health, one of the biggest challenges is stress …
Nature Fixes Everything: An Interview with Florence Williams
What does being in nature have to do with our happiness, health or productivity? Ap…
Is the Office Obsolete?
I was recently asked, "Why do people need to go into the office?" It wasn't a naïve…
A Healthy Environment Can Nudge Behavior
Consider the many ways a healthy environment impacts our decision-making. What we s…
Healthy Workplace Book Recommendations for 2017
Here are my top 8 "healthy workplace" book recommendations and why you will benefit from reading them. Some might surprise you!
10 Easy Ways to Create a Healthy Workplace
Studies show that people who feel more “in control” of their work and work environment are less likely to suffer from stress and illness and see increases in productivity.
Bring Pets to Work… for Your Health!
One of the recommendations in The Healthy Workplace is to consider allowing employee…
Creating a Wellness Movement: Interview with Laura Putnam, Author of Workplace Wellness that Works
Laura Putnam, author of Workplace Wellness that Works: 10 Steps to Infuse Well-Bei…
The Science Behind Happiness at Work and Other Take-aways from GMU’s Leading to Well-being Conference
I just got back from George Mason University’s Leading to Well-Being: Cultivating Re…
Unlocking Creativity at Work: An Interview with Teresa Amabile, Professor and Director of Research at Harvard Business School
Last year I got the chance to see and meet Teresa Amabile at a conference in Boston …
Making Space for Tranquility at Work, Advice from Sharon Salzberg
If you live in the Western Hemisphere and study mindfulness, meditation and its conn…
Why I Don’t Like Being “Busy”
During research for The Healthy Workplace, I visited an office that was experimentin…
Tapping into the Human Machine
Several years ago, one of my mentors sat me down and set me straight. “Business isn…
GMU’s Center for the Advancement of Well-being: Interview with Nance Lucas, Executive Director
A few months ago I was listening to National Public Radio and heard a story that men…
The Importance of Choice on Worker Health
Robert Karasek, an industrial engineer and sociologist, and Tores Theorell, a specia…
Roses, Buds and Thorns
Every night my husband, girls and I sit around the dinner table and share our "roses…
How “Gamification” Can Improve Your Health
I'm always looking for "nudges" or ways to encourage more healthy behavior. Sometim…
The Conflict between Work and the Workforce
This disconcerting image (above) is a drawing from Lennart Levi, who has given 4,000…
Work, Love and Play: An Interview with Brigid Schulte
Brigid Schulte is the author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure…
Interview with Jennifer Stevens, PhD: Neuroscience and Space
When I first met Jennifer Stevens, PhD, about a year ago, she was giving a presentat…
Interview with Sam Whiteside, Chief Wellness Officer at The Motley Fool
During my research writing The Healthy Workplace, I got the opportunity to meet Sam …
Is Coffee the New Gin?
I recently heard Seth Godin, one of my favorite "thought leaders," discuss a major s…
How do you make room for “mindfulness” in the workplace?
Check out the latest Work Design Magazine article for how! http://workdesign.com/…
Love It or Hate It: Why the “Open Office” is Under Fire
Over the years, environmental psychologists have interviewed people of all ages and …