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TELUS Health Wellbeing Awards: Celebrating workplace wellbeing

Written by TELUS Health | November 21, 2024

At TELUS Health, we believe that a healthy and happy workforce is the cornerstone of success. That's why we launched our TELUS Health Wellbeing Awards, an initiative designed to recognize and celebrate businesses and individuals from across the world that go above and beyond to prioritize wellbeing within their organizations.

What are the Awards?

There are 14 award categories distributed between global, regional, and individual pillars, all designed to recognize employers and employees that make an outstanding contribution to wellbeing. 

Announcing our award winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of our Wellbeing Awards. These organizational and individual leaders have showcased an unwavering dedication to fostering healthy work environments and enhancing workplace wellbeing.  

Winners: Global Employer Awards

Wellbeing Innovation Award: Air Canada

The Wellbeing Innovation Award is being awarded to an organization that has implemented innovative and effective strategies to promote employee wellbeing. 

Air Canada’s innovative launch of their UBY portal brings together multiple dimensions of employee wellbeing, which allows their team to get an overall view of employee health trends. The portal includes a health risk assessment, employee assistance program, and virtual care, and has already shown to increase employee engagement with their health benefits. 

Inclusive Workplace Award: Philips

The Inclusive Workplace Award celebrates an organization that fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace, which contributes to the mental and emotional wellbeing of their employees. 

Philips’ Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing strategy is focused on attracting and retaining diverse talent, embedding mental health into their daily work, and training people leaders to support mental health. Notably, they have achieved 32 per cent of women in senior leadership positions - a 13 per cent increase in 5 years. 

Leadership in Mental Health Support Award: Nutrien

This award honours an organization that demonstrates exceptional leadership in providing mental health care services for their workforce.

The award winner for this category is Nutrien, in recognition of the “Culture of Care” they have built and the mental health strategy that is centered around that idea, and for ensuring their employees are, and feel safe. They have created ways to collect and implement employee feedback, and their leaders are committed to fostering that culture by developing, implementing and promoting programs that support employee mental health.  

Employee Wellbeing Program of the Year Award: ASML

This award acknowledges an organization with outstanding employee wellbeing programs that contribute to their overall health and happiness.

ASML’s commitment to cultivating wellbeing through work enjoyability and flexibility, encouraging employees to integrate physical activity into their work day, and putting emphasis on community engagement, has made a notable impact on employee wellbeing.

Winners: Regional Employer Awards

Our Regional Employer awards recognize organizations that have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to fostering employee wellbeing, promoting mental, physical and financial health, and creating an environment that prioritizes the overall wellbeing of their community.

Engagement activities from these leaders include innovative wellbeing initiatives, employee and community engagement, leadership in mental health advocacy, healthy workplace culture, and impactful health and wellbeing policies.

Canadian Wellbeing Excellence Award: Hydro One

Hydro One has demonstrated a multifaceted approach to wellbeing, developing programs that meet their employees where they are, and offering inclusive programs like Indigenous CBT, health screening clinics and therapy dogs.

United States Wellbeing Excellence Award: Humana

Humana has developed a comprehensive, multi-level approach to employee health, wellbeing and engagement, including regular educational events and cross-functional collaboration. 

Asia Pacific Region Wellbeing Excellence Award: Chevron

Chevron has implemented multiple strategies to support a diverse workforce that includes  remote and hybrid workers, leveraging data to build those strategies, and empowering employees to prioritize work life balance. 

Europe Wellbeing Excellence Award: Arup

Arup demonstrated leadership in workplace wellness through their "whole-person" wellbeing strategy. One of the highlights was an impactful storytelling campaign featuring personal stories about anxiety, depression, and grief that garnered over 90,000 social media views and led to the creation of a 250-member neurodiversity network.

Global Wellbeing Excellence Award: Siemens

Siemens’ Feel Well program stands out for its employee-driven approach, and its tailored initiatives for mobile workers. Their program has created a holistic, community-driven wellbeing movement that authentically engages employees across all aspects of their lives.

Winners: Regional Individual Awards

Our Regional Individual Awards recognize individuals within a company who have gone above and beyond to champion employee wellbeing initiatives.

Engagement activities from these champions include innovative wellbeing initiatives, employee and community engagement, leadership in mental health advocacy, healthy workplace culture, and impactful health and wellbeing policies.

European Wellbeing Champion: Marina Garcia, Arup

Marina’s efforts in the development and launch of the “Stress Thermometer” initiative has made a positive impact on workplace wellbeing for Arup’s Madrid office.

Asia Pacific Region Wellbeing Champion: Sarah Soncini, ANZ Bank

Sarah demonstrated her commitment to wellbeing with her courage to share her mental health journey with others, as well as through the creation of the Mental Health Network to help support her peers.

United States Wellbeing Champion: Tracy Anders, Amcor

Tracy’s commitment to the success of Amcor’s wellbeing program and her creative initiatives to encourage employees to prioritize their health and wellbeing has made her an impactful champion of workplace wellbeing.

Canadian Wellbeing Champion: Noemie Terrio, Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario

Noemie has dedicated herself to introducing and supporting wellbeing initiatives at the FSRA, especially on her return from her own medical leave.

Global Wellbeing Champion: Pina Guercio, Air Canada

Pina is a champion of community engagement, mental health advocacy, wellbeing policies and an overall healthy workplace culture at Air Canada. 


Congratulations to all our TELUS Health Wellbeing Awards 2024 winners. Their dedication to fostering a culture of wellbeing is truly inspiring: by prioritizing the health and wellbeing of employees in their organizations, they have not only helped in enhancing overall wellbeing for those in their communities, but they are helping to set a new standard for workplace wellbeing across the globe.

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