Speakers offer well-being insights and strategies at Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Conference

Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Conference, held last week, featured some of the biggest names in the wellness space, plus executives from some of the top organizations in the country, including Intel, VMware, IBM, PepsiCo, Citrix, Facebook, Microsoft and others. It kicked off with some groundbreaking exclusive research into the fast-growing wellness industry.

The conference, offering strategies and tactics for boosting employee well-being, was held virtually on Wednesday, April 21. It was keynoted by the entrepreneur and corporate wellness thought leader and best-selling author Laura Putnam, who laid out a the elements of a next-generation workplace wellness strategy.

Sessions ranged from the rise of the wellness profession during the last 13 months and major trends for 2021, to deep dives into mental-health, work from home, DE&I, measurement, and the convergence of wellness and comms.

In a session that covered the rise of the wellness discipline over the last 13 months, speakers Licy Do Canto, managing director at APCO Worldwide, and Carrie Altieri, vice president for strategy and communications at IBM, noted the unique nature of 2020-2021.