Health, Wellness & Wellbeing
The workspace is an often-overlooked tool for building strong team dynamics. An optimized, human-focused space has been shown to improve employee engagement and retention. It can also be a valuable component of corporate wellness, DEI and ESG initiatives. This course will present the business case for alignment between HR, leadership, and employees. This presentation will provide HR Leaders with insight into the framework of the WELL Building Standard as an opportunity to efficiently enhance policy, evaluation, and reporting initiatives.
Learning Objectives:
- Give examples of workspace planning strategies that can improve culture, employee engagement and retention.
- Recognize key aspects of the WELL Building Standard as they relate to Human Resources
- Summarize how applying the WELL Building Standard can efficiently support corporate wellness, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) and ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting and implementation initiatives.
Speaker: Erika MacKay, Founder & CEO, Niche for Design Inc.
Erika is a workspace wellness expert and advocate for spaces that help us feel and perform at our best. She is a registered Interior Designer, a member of the International WELL Building Standard Faculty, and a part-time faculty member at Conestoga College. As founder and CEO of Niche for design she is focused on growing her team and their impact. She is fascinated by hybrid offices, flexible “coworking,” environments, and the opportunity to create connection and belonging in physical “office” spaces. Erika is sought out to speak and consult, based on her expertise in work environments, space planning, and especially wellness in the workspace. She believes that the spaces we spend time in have an enormous impact on our individual and business health and has made it her mission to help more people experience the benefit of an optimal wellness workspace.
