Workplace Wellness Isn’t Enough: What People Really Need
Theresa Hubbard, LMFT
Chase Sterling, MA is the founder of Wellbeing Think Tank, a nonprofit organization created to educate and empower employers to support both individual and organizational wellbeing. What began as a quarterly educational event series in 2019 grew into a larger movement during the pandemic, bringing together workplace health and wellbeing professionals who wanted to create more meaningful, practical support for organizations and communities.
In this conversation, Chase and I explore what it really takes to create workplaces where people can thrive — not just through wellness benefits or surface-level programs, but through culture, leadership, inclusion, psychological safety, evidence-based practices, and whole-person support.
We talk about the difference between workplace wellness and workplace wellbeing, and why true wellbeing is not one program, one benefit, or one training. It is the way people are treated. It is the way leadership listens. It is the way policies are designed. It is the way organizations respond to stress, change, workload, burnout, grief, trauma, and the very human reality that everyone brings a life with them into the workplace.
Chase invites us to think more deeply about the environments we live and work in, and how those environments shape our health, resilience, sense of belonging, and ability to trust ourselves.
This conversation is for leaders, employees, therapists, HR professionals, business owners, and anyone who has ever wondered whether their exhaustion is a personal failure — or whether the system around them may also need to change.
What if wellbeing at work is not about asking people to become endlessly resilient?
What if it begins with creating workplaces that do not cause harm?
And what if the way we work could help us become more human, not less?
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• Why workplace wellbeing is much bigger than wellness programs or employee benefits
• The difference between workplace wellness and workplace wellbeing
• Why Chase says, “When it comes to wellbeing at work, all you need to do is everything”
• How leadership, culture, policies, workload, inclusion, and psychological safety all shape human wellbeing
• Why burnout is not always an individual resilience issue
• How organizations can tell the difference between employee capacity issues and structural problems
• Why listening to employees is essential for creating healthier workplaces
• How workplaces can unintentionally teach people to override their bodies
• What psychological safety can feel like in the body
• Why work, at its best, can help people grow, transform, connect, and build confidence
• What depleted employees may need to consider when they are wondering, “Is it me, or is it the environment?”
ABOUT CHASE STERLING
Chase Sterling is the founder of Wellbeing Think Tank, a nonprofit organization created to educate and empower employers to support both individual and organizational wellbeing.
Learn more about Chase and Wellbeing Think Tank:
www.wellbeingthinktank.org
ABOUT THERESA HUBBARD
Theresa Hubbard, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of Kansas City Neuroplasticity Institute in Liberty, Missouri. She is the host of the My Inner Knowing podcast, where she explores self-trust, nervous system regulation, relationships, trauma healing, embodiment, and the process of learning to listen inwardly with more honesty and compassion.
Learn more:
www.myinnerknowing.com
www.theresahubbard.com
www.kcnpi.com
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