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Laura’s workshops equip leaders with actionable steps—grounded in research and proven in practice—to transform wellbeing into a leadership advantage.
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Each keynote is just the beginning.
Turn inspiration into action with Laura’s workshops, designed to bring ideas to life through interactive discussions, hands-on activities, and doable strategies.
Whether it’s fueling a thriving culture, tackling our sedentary culture, or developing modern leadership, these workshops provide a deeper dive, equipping participants with the tools and insights needed to drive meaningful change.
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Workshop Topics
How Every Manager Can Become a Wellbeing Multiplier
Managers on the Move
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This signature workshop, now delivered to 50,000+ managers and leaders globally, proves the why behind wellbeing, clarifies the pivotal role that managers play in leading it, and provides the Multiplier Method to activate it. Team leaders need to be modeling wellbeing, talking about it in a positive way, and integrating wellbeing into the daily team routines to make wellbeing a way of life within the team. When managers are given the right information, inspiration and tactics, they have the power to launch a “middle-out” movement of wellbeing, benefiting themselves, their team members and the entire organization.
Tangible Takeaways:
Gain the data, research and case studies for a deep understanding of the case for wellbeing at work
Engage on an emotional and personal level through stories, personal reflection activities and thought-provoking questions
Walk away with the Multiplier Method: Do (lead by example), Speak (talk about wellbeing), Create (devise healthier systems and norms within the team)
Intended Audience: Managers and leaders
How to Lead Mental Wellbeing - Upstream, Midstream & Downstream
From Starfish to Systems
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When it comes to addressing the rise in employee mental distress, most organizations are solving for the wrong problem: the individual employee. While well intended, perks, programs and resources are not the answer; addressing the culture and empowering leaders is. Organized around an upstream-midstream-downstream framework, this workshop provides a strategic roadmap to meaningfully tackle mental health head-on. It is built on the premise we are all familiar with: Solving a problem upstream can prevent a thousand problems downstream.
Tangible Takeaways:
Big picture overview of the mental crisis, and how it is having a disproportionate impact on industries such as construction.
Why the prevailing approach, which relies on individual resources, is falling short.
How leaders, especially managers, can make the difference, leveraging a culture-first approach.
Intended Audience: Leaders, on all levels
10 Steps to Infuse Wellbeing & Vitality into Any Organization
Workplace Wellness that Works
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Over 80% of eligible employees are opting out of company wellness programs, as rates of stress and poor health outcomes continue to soar. Learn about why every organization cannot afford to overlook employee wellbeing, and the steps organizational leaders can each take to truly make a difference. In this in-depth workshop, Laura Putnam, author of Workplace Wellness that Works will show how to resurrect your wellness efforts to create a lasting culture of wellbeing. Walk out inspired and ready to start a movement of wellbeing in your organization!
Tangible Takeaways:
Inspire people to imagine what’s possible, setting a foundation of hope.
Analyze your culture – is it supporting or sabotaging employee wellbeing?
Create the fabric for wellbeing to become a way of life.
Intended Audience: Leaders, HR and wellness leaders
Me At My Best®
Building the Life You Want in an Imperfect Culture
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Through a combination of stories and science, learn about the secrets to thriving. This begins with an exploration of the multiple dimensions of wellbeing: physical, emotional, social, financial, career and community. Participants then examine the “knowing and doing gap” that we all face. Given how much we are shaped by our environment, how might we better leverage the “currents'“ that work in our favor and circumvent those that don’t? How might we build the life we want in an imperfect culture? Participants come away refreshed, restored, and armed with specific takeaways to catapult themselves into a revitalized way of living.
Tangible Takeaways:
Envision what’s possible.
Know what it takes to thrive, exploring the six key dimensions.
Navigate the “currents” of one’s environment to more effectively achieve true wellbeing.
Intended Audience: All audiences
Clients
“To be honest, I had never really thought about integrating wellbeing into my leadership style. After taking Managers on the Move, I can’t imagine not doing so."
Tracy Farahmand
Director of Network Management, BCBSND
Licensing Content
Level Up Your Leaders
Join with innovative companies like BCSBSND, CGI and TVA who offer a licensed version of Laura’s Managers on the Move workshop.
Online Courses
Me At My Best®
Are you fully thriving as your best self? Learn how you can move from surviving to thriving, leveraging the latest science. Catapult yourself into a revitalized way of living.
Managers as Multipliers of Wellbeing
Why wellbeing & why managers? Laura’s LinkedIn Learning course gives a compelling case for both.
Got Engagement?
Just because your company has a wellness program doesn’t mean people are engaging with their wellbeing. Learn how you can change that.