In the world of corporate wellness, many programs focus on standard health metrics: biometrics, smoking cessation, nutrition, and physical activity. These have become the bread-and-butter of employee wellness initiatives. Yet, despite increasingly sophisticated programs, a significant problem persists — a gap in impact and meaningful change. That’s the crux of what Dr. Dee Edington and Angela Camilleri raised in their “Life Skills for Success” work, highlighted by CoreHealth.
What Is the “Major Gap”?
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Limited Measurable Impact: Even after decades of running wellness programs, Edington noted a lack of compelling, consistent evidence showing that these efforts make employees substantially healthier.
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Healthy-but-risky Population Neglected: Many programs rightly focus on high-risk individuals (e.g., those with chronic disease or elevated health risk), but they often overlook the “well-but-not-optimal” group — employees who appear healthy but could benefit from proactive wellness.
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Psychosocial Dimension Underemphasized: Traditional wellness efforts tend to emphasize physical health (exercise, diet), but give less space to internal, psychological components like mindfulness, intention, and positive psychology — variables strongly linked to long-term well-being and resilience.
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Behavior Change Without Depth: Many programs offer resources (fitness challenges, stress workshops) but don’t necessarily support deep, self-reflective growth or ongoing behavior change rooted in an individual’s values.
The gap inspired Edington Associates to turn its focus to ‘mindfulness’ and ‘intention’.
Once the Edington Associates team was clear about the concepts they wanted to represent, the real challenge came in putting together a design that captured all of the scientific research while keeping it relatable for employees of different backgrounds, interests and levels of health. The next goal was to create a unique user experience that allows participants to embrace these valuable concepts in a personal and meaningful way.
Edington Associates researched the science behind positive psychology, and learned from the premises of flourishing, becoming our best and recognizing personal strengths, in order to create a tool that could be accessed by anybody, anywhere. ‘Life Skills for Success’ was born!
Thinking beyond the scope of traditional wellness programs, Edington Associates partnered with CoreHealth Technologies to deliver their innovative program. CoreHealth, specializing in developing technology to support all types of wellness initiatives, seamlessly integrated the ‘Life Skills for Success” toolset into its flexible platform. The CoreHealth Platform, delivers integrated programs for leading organizations supporting wellness, disease management and behavioral health interventions across the globe. This marriage of research and technology allows Life Skills to be rolled out quickly and alongside your existing programs internationally, and in multiple languages.
The enormous amount of registrations and requests for info stemming from this webinar have proven that there is an appetite for a new approach… Even well-known ‘late adopters’ have been calling!
We all agree that we need to start looking at the bigger picture. Some of our industry sages talk about well-being, some call it holistic and even living with purpose. Call it what you want – it’s time for change!
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ABOUT COREHEALTH TECHNOLOGIES
CoreHealth Technologies Inc. is the leading corporate wellness platform trusted by more than 1000 organizations, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. At CoreHealth, we believe that developing the best employee wellness programs is all about giving wellness companies the right code, design and access to the latest innovations. With the most customization, integrations and reliability of any software in its class, CoreHealth’s powerful platform lets users focus on growing great companies. For more information, contact CoreHealth or explore the CoreHealth website.
