"What was life like before COVID?"

Once upon a time, many of us believed that one day in the distant future, our children or our children’s children would ask us what life was like during the COVID pandemic. As we start to accept that any sense of normalcy might be history, it’s also starting to feel like our children or our children’s children might instead ask us “what was life like before COVID?”

The same can be said for large and small businesses, higher education, and any organization that relies on people working toward a shared purpose. While COVID’s disruption of the physical world has constrained economic growth, its impact on people’s emotional wellbeing is creating major problems for organizations in the forms of record-breaking resignations, explosive politics, and strains on human connection & collaboration.

How can organizations keep their people thriving as we navigate our shared future? The answers must be rooted in foundational wellbeing, belonging, and authenticity for organizations to be nimble enough to flow from where we are today to where we’re going tomorrow.

Where to start? Center your organization around a shared commitment to help people bring their whole selves to their whole lives.

What's New at Kumanu?

Wellbeing 3.0 Webinar: Designing Wellbeing That People Love (and CFOs, Too!)

In 2022, Baystate Health boldly re-designed its award-winning employee wellness program to better meet the moment. The Baystate team centered the new design on root causes of wellbeing: compassion, connection, purpose, social determinants, and emotional wellbeing. Now the team is exceeding engagement goals through creative use of re-imagined social challenges paired with an innovative social-good incentive model.

Watch this webinar and learn practical and proven new ways to:
– Design to better meet employee needs today, and better leverage your benefits (without busting your budget!)
– Align wellbeing benefits and culture initiatives to fortify employee experience
– Reallocate incentive spend to get more change that sticks (rather than just paying for clicks)
– Use personal purpose to help boost employee engagement & retention across the salary spectrum.

Watch — PurposeCast: Purpose 101

Sometimes the question, “What’s your purpose?” can leave people feeling stumped, and some may be wondering why purpose matters.

Watch our special PurposeCast event, Purpose 101 with Dr. Vic Strecher. Vic leads a free, 45-minute minicourse designed to help you learn about the foundation of purpose, the science behind its importance, and practical ways you can uncover and apply your purpose in life and work.

Watch — PurposeCast: Purpose and Values

Our values shape our purpose, and the start of the year is a perfect time to reflect on what we value and why.

Watch the recording to hear neuroscientist Dr. Emily Falk and Dr. Vic Strecher discuss the way we adopt our values and how purpose and values help us live for what matters most.

Watch — PurposeCast: The Gifts of Compassion

Sometimes it can be challenging to show compassion to ourselves and others. Psychologist and neuroscientist Dr. Olga Klimecki will help you understand some of the barriers to compassion and ways you can strengthen this important relational aspect of kindness and care.

Wellbeing 3.0 Webinar: Revolutionizing Workforce Wellbeing: A Guaranteed ROI Strategy

You’ll learn how this innovative approach lowers costs, lightens the administrative load, and enhances the employee experience. Are you tired of paying for clicks and want to see real results? This is your roadmap to success.

The Benefits of Gratitude and Compassion

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and express gratitude for our blessings and to share our love and kindness with others. However, it can also be a challenging time when we are aware of the wars and conflicts that are happening around the world — and the death and suffering that they cause. How can we perhaps shift our perspective and approach this season with a compassionate and hopeful heart? How can we use gratitude and compassion to lead a more purposeful life?

Blog and Insights, Chief Innovation Officer - Eric Zimmerman, MPH, MBA

Rethink or Reboot? Five Things We Heard You Say About Workforce Wellbeing

We recently completed a deep dive interview project with HR and Benefits leaders representing a diverse array of industries – consumer goods, insurance, manufacturing, high tech, healthcare, consulting, financial services, engineering, energy, and food services. We wanted to know if they were indeed rethinking wellbeing. We asked about business drivers in play now, and challenged them to grade their current wellbeing programs and platforms. We asked what “better” would look like, and tested new ideas for resonance.

Watch — PurposeCast: Discovering Expressions of Gratitude

Artist Lori Portka and Vic Strecher discuss how an individual can discover their own expressions of gratitude. Learn more about her project which was featured on Oprah.

Deloitte: From survive to thrive: The future of work in a post-pandemic world
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Smartbrief: How well-being can help people get through hard times
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Inc: The Great Resignation Is Going to be a Shock — Hitting Some Industries Harder Than Others
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Business Insider: Employees want to feel valued and a sense of shared purpose
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Harvard Business Review: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
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BBC: What happens when your office has changed for the worse?
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Employee Benefits News: U.S. parents are at breaking point over child care, survey shows
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HR Dive: 6 stories on how the pandemic has changed work for women
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Resources

Getting to the root of emotional wellbeing at work.

Thought leaders and researchers at Kumanu, analyzing a nationally representative sample of U.S. workers gathered by The Harris Poll, developed a new model for employee wellbeing better aligned to the root causes of workforce wellbeing today.

Employee needs have changed. Has your wellbeing strategy?

Wellbeing is changing. For good. Join us to learn how to offer more of what employees expect today: authenticity, equity, and experiences centered on social and emotional wellbeing.

Purposeful Overview

The Purposeful Experience delivers more than a point solution and goes deeper than an app. Our team of wellbeing, communication, and program design experts support you every step of the way, creating a solution that is highly configurable, provides real-time insights on metrics that matter most, and integrates into your culture.

Resourceful Overview

A first-of-its-kind solution to recognize, activate, and measure essential needs, Resourceful works with your existing programs to recognize and activate your people to their fullest potential.

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"What was life like before COVID?"

What's New at Kumanu?

Wellbeing 3.0 Webinar: Designing Wellbeing That People Love (and CFOs, Too!)

Watch — PurposeCast: Purpose 101

Watch — PurposeCast: Purpose and Values

Watch — PurposeCast: The Gifts of Compassion

Wellbeing 3.0 Webinar: Revolutionizing Workforce Wellbeing: A Guaranteed ROI Strategy

The Benefits of Gratitude and Compassion

Rethink or Reboot? Five Things We Heard You Say About Workforce Wellbeing

Watch — PurposeCast: Discovering Expressions of Gratitude

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Getting to the root of emotional wellbeing at work.

Employee needs have changed. Has your wellbeing strategy?

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