Marie-Claude Pelletier, a 2012 EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal alumna, President and Founder of Levia Group, which is specialized in the development of prevention, health, wellness and quality of worklife strategies, was recently invited as a guest speaker for the Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute regional conference.
The conference focused on the numerous challenges faced by companies in order to protect the health of their organization and their employees: aging, chronic illness, psychological distress, disability, etc.
Here are some interesting quotes from Marie-Claude’s conference reported in an article by Pierre-Luc Trudel published on Conseiller.ca (free translation from French):
- “According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, almost 68% of Canadian workers are inactive, 32% feel moderate to high stress at work and 61% are overweight. These are all preventable problems. These numbers tell us that we are facing a serious problem and we must make additional efforts on the prevention side. “
- “Globally, we see a growing trend towards a comprehensive approach that combines physical and psychological health, while these two aspects were too often treated separately in the past.”
- “We know that the personal life of an employee has a significant impact on his work. We try to consider all aspects of a person’s life when we develop solutions, not just his or her professional life.”
- “We cannot dig into people’s personal lives in Europe, there is a total closure compared to here, where workplaces are more welcoming and open to discussion. In Europe, interventions are much more focused on the workplace, we avoid discussion about lifestyle. “
- “We are no longer in a “one size fits all” model. To be able to make changes in people’s lives, we must be able to offer custom tools based on their own situation. It would have no impact to talk about weight loss to an employee who has financial or family difficulties. “
To learn more about Marie-Claude Pelletier’s conference and about workplace health global innovations and trends, read the compete article here.
