Building Healthier Workplaces: Leadership, Culture and Engagement
This three-part webinar series explores practical strategies for strengthening leadership, workplace culture, safety and employee well-being.
Creating a healthier, safer workplace takes more than policies and programs. This three-part webinar series explores how leadership, workplace culture and employee engagement can help organizations build lasting approaches to health, safety and well-being.
Drawing on lessons from working with small businesses, the series will offer practical strategies leaders can use to strengthen workplace culture, develop leadership at every level and prepare for challenging situations, including workplace violence.
The series will be led by Dr. Natalie Schwatka, who has more than a decade of experience advancing the Total Worker Health® approach to protect and promote workers’ health, safety and well-being. Her research focuses on how leadership, business strategies
and workplace culture can create healthier, safer workplaces, with extensive experience designing and evaluating leadership-based interventions.
She is the Director of the NIOSH Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC) Certificate in Total Worker Health® program, which provides scholarships for students seeking careers in the field. Within this program, she teaches students how to
protect workers' physical and mental health on the job. She also works with national and federal organizations to strengthen organizational leadership and culture.
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Next Week: Thursday, Oct. 15
Episode 1: Beyond Policies - How Small Business Leaders Build Healthier, Safer Workplaces
Policies and programs are only part of the picture. Drawing on five years of work with nearly 100 employers and their teams, this webinar shares practical lessons on what actually drives employee engagement in health, safety, and well-being, especially the
role leaders and workplace culture play. You'll leave with concrete ideas for assessing where your organization stands, setting realistic goals, and supporting your leaders (including their own well-being) as they champion a Total Worker Health® approach.
Thursday, Oct. 15
2-2:30 p.m.
2-2:30 p.m.
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Episode 2: It Takes More Than One - Building Leadership at Every Level for Safety and Well-Being (Nov. 19)
Our work with small businesses taught us an important lesson: one committed leader can't carry an organization's health and safety culture alone. This webinar introduces Built to Last, a toolkit that spreads leadership for safety, health, and mental health
across owners, managers, frontline supervisors, and workers. You'll learn practical ways to grow leaders throughout your organization so your efforts last.
Episode 3: Prepared Together - Leadership and Workforce Engagement for Workplace Violence (Dec. 17)
Workplace violence affects both physical safety and mental health, and those effects begin long before an incident and last long after it. This webinar applies the leadership and engagement lessons from earlier in the series to preparing for, responding to,
and recovering from violence at work. Attendees will leave with practical strategies and resources they can put to use right away.
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Explore Michigan's Workplace Mental Health Reports
The 2022 and 2025 reports provide research and practical strategies to help employers create healthier, more resilient workplaces where employees can thrive. Download both reports to learn how supporting mental health can strengthen your workforce.
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