Why Well-Being Matters in Workplace Culture
Nearly six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, the workplace well-being landscape has been permanently transformed. HR leaders and executives are increasingly recognizing that stress, burnout, and chronic health conditions do not just present as personal challenges, but also send a ripple through employee productivity, retention, and attendance, impacting both team dynamics and organizational costs.
Meanwhile, employee needs continue to evolve, with areas such as women’s health, neurodiversity, and use of GLP-1 medications gaining prominence. Given today’s workforce realities, implementing a comprehensive well-being solution with personalized coaching is a critical business imperative.
Turning Individual Behavior Change into Organizational Impact
ComPsych’s health and well-being coaches are behavior change experts that serve as a catalyst for action, empowering employees to set achievable goals and overcome everyday emotional and physical barriers to maximize their potential. Coaching meets employees where they are, using a collaborative and client-centered approach. Through one-on-one guidance, coaches help individuals clarify their values and goals, tap into personal strengths and possibilities, and design a realistic action plan to achieve their desired outcomes. With each step forward, employees share insights and experiences that elevate their workplace, fostering collective growth and a culture of self-care.
ComPsych’s Well-Being Coaching program offers over twenty coaching topics that address a broad spectrum of physical and socio-emotional challenges such as sleep quality, time management, women’s and men’s health, and competing priorities. As physical and emotional well-being are often interconnected, coaching provides a space for employees to explore these needs and identify small, sustainable steps toward balance and whole-person health. Whether managing burnout or preventing chronic health risks, coaching helps employees take proactive control of their health before smaller issues escalate and require higher levels of care.
Coaching also serves as a gateway to other services within ComPsych’s Continuum of Care, including counseling, legal, financial, and work-life services, as well as a self-guided, on demand computerized cognitive behavioral therapy tool (CCBT) that employees can utilize concurrently with any service. In fact, recent findings from a ComPsych white paper revealed an 82% increase in overall program engagement among organizations that added Well-Being Coaching in 2023 and 2024.
Ascend Coaching Academy: ComPsych’s Commitment to Coaching Excellence
While coaching is a powerful tool for transformation, not all coaching is created equal. ComPsych upholds an unwavering commitment to excellence through rigorous training, year-round continuing education, and adherence to the highest standards in coaching.
In addition to holding advanced degrees and expertise across multiple dimensions of health and well-being, ComPsych’s coaches complete a proprietary training program, Ascend Coaching Academy (ACA), approved by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC). NBHWC approval signifies an intensive multi-step evaluation process that recognizes ACA’s alignment with the gold standard in the coaching profession. This level of training raises the bar in the industry by equipping coaches with best-in-class, evidence-based skills to drive meaningful behavior change and measurable outcomes.
With a continuously updated curriculum and application of the latest methodologies and emerging behavioral health trends, coaches expand their skillset to effectively address a diverse range of real-world issues that surface throughout organizations.
Well-Being Coaching Benefits
Numerous studies have shown coaching leads to measurable improvements in key health outcomes in as few as four sessions. Documented results include:
- Weight loss maintained up to 24 months
- Blood pressure control for up to 48 months
- Diabetes management with A1C reductions sustained for at least 12 months
Through ComPsych’s coaching model, employees gain an action-orientated mindset along with practical tools and strategies to achieve similar results. These are just a few of the many benefits that translate to a reduction in healthcare costs, unplanned absences, and length of leave of absence for organizations.
Additional advantages of coaching include a renewed sense of purpose, accountability, improved daily functioning and focus, increased confidence, and work/life balance. Each of these yields a positive outlook that cascades from employees to their teams and communities.
The Message in Coaching Trends and Outcomes
From 2023 through 2025, the five most requested coaching topics were Coping with Stress; Weight Management; Tobacco Cessation; Nutrition; and Exercise. These trending topics reflect that employees recognize the impact of their day-to-day choices and want to take ownership of their health and well-being with the right support in their corner. Whether it is gaining awareness of one’s daily patterns or building confidence to take the next step forward, the value of coaching speaks for itself in the following 2025 survey data from coaching participants:
- 95% were satisfied with their coaching experience
- 93% indicated coaching helped them build confidence and maintain progress
- 96% would participate again
In addition to measuring satisfaction results, in 2026 ComPsych plans to share metrics that highlight the ways coaching supports reduced health risks and organizational cost savings. These outcomes measures will include Workplace Outcomes Suite, Functioning, Working Alliance Inventory, and Net Promoter Score.
Coaching Towards a Culture Worth Emulating
In today’s fast-paced world, employees are pulled in many directions, and self-care is often first to be sacrificed. This makes coaching an essential component of a comprehensive behavioral health solution. When people feel seen, supported, and prepared to navigate life’s daily challenges, they can bring their best selves to work and become the foundation of a flourishing workplace.
