The Wellbeing Centered Workplace: 10 Strategies Fuelling Business Growth & Performance - Hardcover

by Chris Cummings (Author)

A heartfelt personal journey that unlocks the power of evidence-based wellbeing at work

In The Wellbeing-Centered Workplace, Chris Cummings shares a powerful personal and professional journey following his partner's mental health challenges that motivated him to quit his corporate career and start Wellbeing at Work, a global purpose-led business empowering organizations to prioritize employee wellbeing through community engagement, meaningful connections, and expert knowledge sharing.

This book offers an honest account of how prioritizing wellbeing--both personal and organizational--became the cornerstone of sustainable growth, stronger leadership, and elevated team performance. Through real-world experiences, strategic insights, and lessons learned, the author reveals how wellbeing is not a soft skill but a strategic advantage that drives innovation, resilience, and results.

Readers will also find 10 practical steps that organizations can take forward to create thriving workplaces, with each step supported by case studies from senior business leaders who have found standout success in a particular area. A must-read for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers looking to build purpose-driven organizations where people and profits thrive together.

In this book, readers will find discussion on:

• The huge benefits of flexibility in courting the global talent pool and how we can engage with wider communities
• The unique desires of Millennials and Gen Z and the growing number of people taking career breaks or shifting to new careers in their fifties
• How to ensure the human aspect in the workplace while complementing the rapidly developing technological landscape

The Wellbeing-Centered Workplace is a practical, thought-provoking read for business leaders and managers to understand and adapt to the new world of work across every level of their organizations.

Front Jacket

After his partner's mental health crisis revealed a critical gap in workplace support systems, Chris Cummings left his corporate career to found Wellbeing at Work, transforming his personal experience into a decade-long global movement. The Wellbeing Centered Workplace: 10 Strategies Fuelling Business Growth & Performance presents the evidence-based framework Cummings developed through thousands of conversations with business leaders worldwide, proving that wellbeing is not a soft skill but a strategic advantage driving innovation, resilience, and results.

The Wellbeing Centered Workplace delivers 10 actionable strategies covering personalization through data analytics, technology-enabled preventative approaches, flexible location policies backed by evidence rather than nostalgia, demographic shifts placing Gen Z in the driver's seat, environmental sustainability integration, empathetic leadership development, government partnerships, human sustainability practices, future-focused skills development, and performance optimization. Each strategy features real-world case studies from senior business leaders who have achieved measurable success in their organizations.

The book challenges current return-to-office rhetoric with hard evidence, explores how AI and emerging technologies enable proactive wellbeing interventions, and demonstrates why organizations that fail to prioritize wellbeing struggle to attract top talent in competitive markets. Drawing parallels with high-performance environments like professional sports and airline operations, Cummings shows how putting wellbeing at the center of commercial strategy delivers non-negotiable business results while preparing organizations for the dramatically different workplace of the next decade.

The Wellbeing Centered Workplace is essential reading for business leaders, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs who recognize that sustainable organizational success requires putting people first. This practical, evidence-based guide provides the roadmap for building purpose-driven organizations where wellbeing and profits thrive together.

Back Jacket

A HEARTFELT PERSONAL JOURNEY THAT UNLOCKS THE POWER OF EVIDENCE-BASED WELLBEING AT WORK

The Wellbeing-Centered Workplace offers an honest account of how prioritizing wellbeing--both personal and organizational--became the cornerstone of sustainable growth, stronger leadership, and elevated team performance. Through real-world experiences, strategic insights, and lessons learned, the author reveals how wellbeing is not a soft skill but a strategic advantage that drives innovation, resilience, and results.

In the book, you will find discussion on the benefits of flexibility in courting the global talent pool and how we can engage with wider communities. You will discover the unique desires of Millennials and Gen Z and the growing number of people taking career breaks or shifting to new careers, and how to ensure the human aspect in the workplace while complementing the rapidly changing technological landscape.

The Wellbeing-Centered Workplace is a practical, thought-provoking read for business leaders and managers to understand and adapt to the new world of work across every level of their organizations.

Author Biography

CHRIS CUMMINGS is the founder and CEO of Wellbeing at Work, a global series of leadership summits that take place in 23 cities across the world. He has been instrumental in developing and growing the corporate wellbeing industry over the last 11 years and has spoken to thousands of thought-leaders from organizations worldwide.