Healthy Deviance at Work

Healthy Deviance at Work empowers your people to upgrade their vitality and resilience while seriously up-leveling their professional capacity. 

HEALTHY DEVIANCE AT WORK is a set of proven tools and integrated support systems designed to help your organization approach what's commonly known as "corporate wellness" in some decidedly uncommon, un-corporate ways.

Blending science-based behavior-change principles with custom-bundled digital resources, guided experiences, and community support, Healthy Deviance at Work helps your company:

• Reduce burnout and disengagement

• Overcome the root drivers of workplace suffering

• Minimize runaway healthcare costs

• Fuel optimal performance and productivity 

• Facilitate recruiting and retention of star performers 

• Re-energize and inspire your team

• Elevate your organization's sense of purpose, unleashing new bottom-line potential

Healthy Deviance at Work helps your organization break free from the destructive patterns that are burning your people out — and holding them back. 

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Who Is This For?

Healthy Deviance at Work is for organizations eager to innovate beyond the status quo — and ready to face reality.

Healthy Deviance at Work meets your people where they are, in the midst of a statistical reality few conventional corporate wellness efforts are prepared to confront. Consider, for example …

• 60% of U.S. adults are chronically ill 

• 70% rely on prescription drugs 

• 80% aren't flourishing mentally and emotionally 

• 97% aren't practicing basic healthy habits 

This means that currently, less than three percent of the population is healthy, happy, and on track to stay that way.

It also means that most "normal" corporate wellness efforts — even those that cost millions — are not cutting it. 

Healthy Deviance at Work represents a ripe opportunity to iterate beyond failing norms.

It is ideal for forward-thinking, innovation-oriented companies who would like to champion chronic-disease avoidance and reversal within their ranks.

It's for teams eager to bring out the very best in their highly-skilled people by helping them operate at their whole-person peak — not their overwhelmed worst.

Beyond Business As Usual

LET’S FACE IT: If conventional corporate wellness strategies addressed the real needs of working humans, they would be working better for more of us by now.

At present, the very nature of work inside most growth-focused, metric-driven organizations tends to work against human vitality and wellbeing.

The predictable, cookie-cutter solutions many companies rely on to offset this damage are simply no match for the mounting challenges their people face on a daily basis.

in many sectors, “corporate wellness” has become an contradiction of terms.

To date, most organizations have been focused on trying to get large numbers of already-overwhelmed individuals to do the nearly impossible — urging them to adopt "healthy choices" in the face of daunting social obstacles. 

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Healthy Deviance at Work empowers people to approach health transformation in simple, doable, yet oddly exhilarating new ways. It unshackles them from counterproductive efforts and helps them start racking up early wins.

In the process, it helps them expand their sense of confidence, purpose, and personal potential. 

Supported by science — and tested in real-life workplaces.

Founded in key principles from Positive Psychology, Functional Medicine, and Conscious Capitalism, Healthy Deviance cultivates whole-person vitality and builds systems-based resilience.

Healthy Deviance at Work initiatives have been piloted and proven successful in a wide range of business settings, from manufacturing to finance, from e-commerce to commercial construction.

No matter what your industry, when rooted into your brand and business goals, Healthy Deviance at Work enlivens your organization from the inside out, enriching its culture and unleashing new bottom-line potential. 

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Is This a Good Fit?

If your organization is ready to innovate beyond the status quo, yes!

While Healthy Deviance at Work is not for everyone, it’s ideal for forward-thinking organizations, especially those that are:

• eager to bring out the very best in their people by helping them operate at their whole-person peak — rather than their burned-out worst

• keen on imbuing their teams with a greater sense of connection and shared purpose

• consciously navigating change and uncertainty with a view beyond the next fiscal quarter

• committed to developing a more rewarding, sustainable model for their organization’s next-gen evolution

• invested in creating not just healthier workplaces, but truly regenerative work cultures and business outcomes

Healthy Deviance at Work is an especially good fit for companies intent on building beloved brands and solving real problems for real people in a world of accelerating change.

The best way to find out if Healthy Deviance is right for your organization is to schedule a 30-minute discovery call with me. Or just drop me an email and tell me what’s on your mind.

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What Makes This … Different?

Healthy Deviance at Work employs low-friction, high-payoff tools. It imparts exciting new skills. It makes your organization an agent of positive change. 

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What’s In It for You?

Healthy Deviance helps your organization beat unhealthy odds by disrupting the default patterns that drive workplace suffering and chronic illness.

Your organization does not exist in a vacuum. It is both part of a larger society and a little (or not so little) sub-society of its own. 

Positive culture-building efforts notwithstanding, most companies' unspoken social norms aren't particularly healthy. And therein lies an exciting opportunity. 

It is entirely possible to shift norms within any setting (like a workplace) where we have a measure of influence or control; as a business leader, you have a lot of both. And so do the folks you work with every day.

Because shared environments drive shared attitudes and behaviors — for better or for worse.

A Better Culture Cure

Healthy Deviance at Work is all about re-patterning and re-regulating chaotic, vitality-draining systems. It’s also about challenging stale organizational assumptions.

When you shift your focus from tightly contained corporate-wellness initiatives to healthy pattern innovation, you transform your mini-society's determinants of health in powerful ways. 

When you move from insisting on “personal responsibility” to inspiring creative collaboration, you eliminate wasted effort, cynicism, and shame. 

When you engage your people in helping each other reclaim their vitality, resilience, and self-compassion — rather than leaving them to struggle alone with their perceived shortcomings — you rekindle creativity and connection. 

Your people feel better, function better. They bring more of their best selves and their high-octane mojo to work. 

Naturally, you also enjoy lower healthcare burdens as a result. Not just by "driving down costs" — but by helping your people rise to the real challenges of being healthy in an unhealthy world.

As a center of social innovation and support, your organization attracts and nourishes top-notch talent. It becomes a magnet for high-functioning, health-motivated people. 

You unleash new capacity and enthusiasm. And when you do that, everybody wins.

At its heart, Healthy Deviance at Work is not really about "corporate wellness" at all. Rather, it's about creating the conditions for whole-person well-being.

Want a Sneak Peek?

I've got Healthy Deviance at Work options for organizations (and budgets) of all shapes and sizes. I’d love to show you a few that are making the biggest difference for companies like yours.

Most of these resources can be deployed remotely while maintaining a strong sense of personal connection, which means the program can be tailored to fit the needs of your in-office, hybrid, or remote work culture.

Here are some easy ways to discover the power of Healthy Deviance at Work …

• Learn the essentials of "How to Be Healthy in an Unhealthy World" via a 30-minute lunch- and-learn presentation

• Discover "The Art of Healthy Deviant Leadership" — including five shifts that top executives and innovation-oriented managers must embrace in order to sustain peak performance, vitality, and resilience

• Host a Healthy Deviant Mocktail Party or Book Club to explore key concepts of Healthy Deviance in a fun, low-key setting

• Invite your team to join you for a "5-Day Healthy Deviant Un-Challenge" — great for engagement and inter-group bonding (motivational rewards included!)

• Embark on a guided "14-Day Healthy Deviant Adventure" to instill healthy behavior shifts and clarify next-step priorities

• Host a Healthy Deviant Mini-Sprint — a professionally facilitated workshop where I guide your key stakeholders in co-creating a plan for better physical and mental health

• Enroll your team members in “Healthy Deviant U” — an ongoing, year-round health-transformation experience supported by self-paced content infusions, clear actions, and non-stop community support

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Enter your name and email below to download a printable “Healthy Deviance at Work” info packet (PDF) you can share with your colleagues and collaborators.

Talk to Me

Want to connect in real time? Schedule a 30-minute discovery call to share your real-life priorities and get some personalized next-step suggestions.

Want to check out some of my Healthy Deviant work?

• Grab a free preview of my book (or audiobook) to discover the key concepts and spirit of Healthy Deviance.

• Read this feature on Healthy Deviance from Experience Life magazine

• Listen to the Healthy Deviance 2 episode of The Living Experiment (the podcast I co-host).

• Or, just reach out to me here, tell me what’s on your mind, and we’ll come up with a next-step plan together.