Increase Your Productivity and Decrease Your Healthcare Costs with Sustainable Lifestyle Solutions

Are you frustrated and disheartened with loss in productivity while employee health deteriorates and sick days skyrocket? Are your profits plummeting while healthcare costs soar? Do you wish to do all you can for the well-being of your employees?

We have the solutions.

Productivity in business is not a

matter of sheer brainpower, but

rather a pyramid with physical

well-being as its foundation,

upon which rests emotional,

mental and spiritual health.1

Why Should Employers Invest in Wellness?

Since employee health is critical for productivity, the increasing incidence of chronic disease is a serious concern for employers.

Employees with four lifestyle risk factors (such as obesity, physical

inactivity, poor nutrition, smoking, or high alcohol intake) report 50

percent more absences than those without these risk factors.2

Treatments for chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer

generate the majority of a company’s direct health-related costs.2

An unhealthy workplace is detrimental to learning, collaboration, and

innovation.2

Imagine…

Being respected as the employer who takes care of employee well-being

Increasing productivity from healthier and happier employees

Decreasing healthcare spending

Attracting and keeping top talent

Providing a caring environment where people thrive and exceed expectations

Decreasing short-term and long-term disability claims due to complications from chronic disease

Helping employees diminish the complications of, or even reverse, chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and more

Demonstrating legal due diligence

Figure 1. The High-Performance Pyramid (adapted

from Loehr and Schwartz, 2001)

1. Loehr, J. and Schwartz, T. (2001). The Making of a Corporate Athlete. Harvard Business Review, January, 120-128.

2. Chénier, L., Hoganson,C. and Thorpe, K. Making the Business Case for Investments in

Workplace Health and Wellness. Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada, 2012.

3. RAND Corporation, Do Workplace Wellness Programs Save Employers Money? 2014

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9744.html

4. Please refer to the decades of work by leading medical experts such as Dr. Dean

Ornish, Dr. John McDougall, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. The

documentary Forks over Knives is a great introduction.

“Disease management drives

return on investment from

workplace wellness programs.”4

How to achieve a successful wellness program?

An employer can help employees improve their lifestyle behaviours through a corporate/workplace wellness program, which, when done properly, can also provide significant return on investment (ROI). Employers who are seeking a healthy ROI on their programs should target employees who already have chronic diseases.3 Many chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers can be prevented and even reversed simply by adopting a healthy lifestyle – one that includes exercise, restful sleep, stress management, and, most importantly, healthy eating.2,4

The keys to a successful wellness program include:

Organizational structure that understands it takes time to see ROI

Role-modeled or at least supported by leadership

Integrated, targeted, and comprehensive

Holistic approach that includes goal setting, exercise, stress management, and, most importantly, nutrition, guided by health coaches trained in methods that produce sustainable results

Focus on prevention but even more so on reduction and reversal of chronic disease

Building in measurable outcomes and benchmarks

Engage employees in activity development

Reward-driven

Continuous evaluation of programs and activities

Dedicated person assigned to workplace health and wellness programming or invest in a corporate/workplace wellness consultant to drive the investment to ROI

Figure 2. (Adapted from RAND Corporation, 2014.)

A healthy lifestyle results in more energy, more enjoyment,

and improved productivity – essentially, the ideal employee

(and employer). But as anyone who has tried to improve

their health knows, temporary changes don’t produce long

term benefits. The only true solutions are sustainable

lifestyle solutions.

At SLS (Sustainable Lifestyle Solutions) Health Coaching, we

specialize in the prevention and reversal of chronic

diseases. We coach people to make simple changes in their

day-to-day lifestyle that result in amazing improvements to

their health, happiness and overall life. Following our

approach, within just weeks people can experience benefits

such as increased energy, improved mental clarity,

decreased medications, etc. People feel so good they don’t

want to go back to their former, unhealthy lifestyle.

Mary-Ellen and John Landry are the owners and coaches of SLS

Health Coaching. They have over 50 years of experience as health

and wellness leaders and are sought after for their knowledge,

energy, and ability to communicate and connect with people. John

is a certified coach with Tony Robbins’ Robbins-Madanes Training

and Mary-Ellen is a certified corporate wellness consultant with

Well.org. Their passion is to provide a supportive, non-judgmental

community that empowers people to create positive life changes.

Investing in SLS Health Coaching creates sustainable benefits.

TESTIMONIAL

Fredericton, NB slshealthcoaching.com info@slshealthcoaching.com 1-800-705-1205

SLS Health Coaching Services:

Goal Setting – what we think

Nutrition – what we eat

Exercise – how we move

Stress Management – how we feel

Specialize in both lifestyle interventions

and chronic disease reversal

High-touch and face-to-face interactions

Evidence-based approach

Needs-based and tailor-fit

Address main issues for HR and CFO

Accessible to remote and mobile employees*

Measureable outcomes

Aggregate reporting*

Organizational mental fitness, resiliency, and

leadership**

Some services provided in collaboration with our affiliates:

* hubbub Health Inc., hubbubhealth.com

** WMA Wellness Inc., wmawellness.com

“SLS Health Coaching provided our lawyers with

a revolutionary two pronged approach of plant

based nutrition and strategies to heighten

mental focus. Within weeks we have all

experienced noticeable improvements to our

overall health and productivity. The experience

with SLS exceeded all of my expectations.”

Jamie Eddy

Managing Partner, Cox & Palmer

Fredericton NB