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Workplace Wellbeing Leadership Course
Next Course – Weds 15th Apr 2026
Design, implement, and evaluate a company’s wellbeing strategy
1-Day Course
Online
1 or more attendees (open course)
£195 + VAT per delegate
CPD Certification
Wellbeing Leadership Training Course Description
This course is designed for Wellbeing Leaders assigned to design, implement, and evaluate their company’s workplace wellbeing strategy. The wellbeing leadership training is delivered online over one day through an open course format.
This course is ideal for those who wish to:
- Enhance their theoretical and evidence-based knowledge of managing health and wellbeing at their workplace.
- Develop or produce their company’s workplace wellbeing strategy and policies.
- Create a positive environment for an effective health and wellbeing programme.
- Implement and evaluate their wellbeing strategy effectively.
- Meet the requirements of a National Wellbeing at Work Award.
This course focuses on integrating workplace health and wellbeing at both the strategic and practical implementation levels. The content is delivered by leading experts and is supplemented by a comprehensive Training Guide. Attendees are welcome from all professional backgrounds, including Wellbeing Leads, Health and Safety Practitioners, Human Resource professionals, Senior Managers, and staff tasked with the company’s wellbeing initiatives.
Wellbeing Leadership Course Learning Objectives
- Improve your understanding of workplace wellbeing.
- Identify key opportunities and barriers for promoting wellbeing.
- Define your role and responsibilities as a wellbeing leader.
- Learn to undertake a gap analysis and develop an action plan based on the results.
- Build and execute a wellbeing needs assessment for your employees.
- Measure and report on return on investment for wellbeing programmes.
- Formulate a strategic plan for workplace wellbeing, tailored to your organisation.
- Consider the ethical principles of supportive wellbeing.
- Critically evaluate existing wellbeing approaches to identify areas for improvement.
- How to assess the effectiveness of your workplace wellbeing programme.
Wellbeing Leadership Course Training Outline
The Workplace Wellbeing Leadership Course is split into to key halves. The first half, delivered in the morning, focuses on the strategic foundations of wellbeing strategy and leadership.
The afternoon session is about the delivery of wellbeing, focusing on understanding the principles of health promotion in the workplace.
Morning Session: Strategic Foundations of Wellbeing Leadership
- Improve your understanding of workplace wellbeing.
- Identify key opportunities and barriers for promoting wellbeing.
- Define your role and responsibilities as a wellbeing leader.
- Learn to undertake a gap analysis and develop an action plan based on the results.
- Build and execute a wellbeing needs assessment for your employees.
- Measure and report on return on investment for wellbeing programmes.
Afternoon Session: Understanding Health Promotion and Wellbeing
- Formulate a strategic plan for workplace wellbeing, tailored to your organisation.
- Consider the ethical principles of supportive wellbeing.
- Critically evaluate existing wellbeing approaches to identify areas for improvement.
- How to assess the effectiveness of your workplace wellbeing programme.
Who is the Workplace Wellbeing Leadership Course for?
This course is specifically designed for those responsible for your business’ workplace wellbeing strategy and programme. Examples of these job roles include:
- HR Directors and HR Managers leading wellbeing initiatives and developing workplace health programmes.
- Wellbeing Leaders and Coordinators tasked with creating and implementing comprehensive wellbeing strategies.
- Occupational Health Professionals looking to expand their strategic influence on organisational health.
- Health and Safety Managers integrating wellbeing into broader health and safety frameworks.
- Senior Leaders and Directors championing employee wellbeing at board level and influencing corporate buy-in.
- People and Culture Teams developing holistic employee experience strategies.
Whether you’re building your first wellbeing strategy or refining an existing programme, this course provides the frameworks, evidence base, and practical tools to create meaningful, measurable impact.
To help you plan and deliver a structured, year-round wellbeing programme, we also offer a free Workplace Wellbeing Calendar! This is packed with the most important UK and International dates linked to health awareness campaigns and key wellbeing themes, making it easier to align your initiatives with recognised moments throughout the year.
Open Course format
The wellbeing leadership training course is held on selected dates throughout the year and are open to delegates from a range of different organisations. This approach is suitable if you’re only looking to train one or a few delegates.
Workplace Wellness Certification
These courses are held on selected dates throughout the year and are open to delegates from a range of different organisations. This approach is suitable if you’re only looking to train one or a few delegates.
Those who complete the course will become CPD Certified Workplace Wellbeing Leaders.
Benefits of Wellbeing Leadership Training
Benefits for Attendees
- Learn how to design and lead a structured wellbeing strategy rather than relying on ad-hoc initiatives
- Learn how to present wellbeing as a commercial priority
- Leave with ready-to-use guidance you can apply immediately
Benefits for Organisations
- Improved employee engagement and morale
- Reduced health-related absence and risk
- Measurable initiatives that demonstrate return on investment
- Ensure wellbeing is embedded at senior level and supported across departments
Why Work with New Leaf Health?
Our team has over 25 years experience working closely with wellbeing leads to build confident, capable, and resilient workplace wellbeing programmes that get real results. We’ve worked with organisations from a broad range of sectors, including, private sector organisations, the NHS, and the UK government.
This wellbeing leadership training delivered by New Leaf Health combines practical tools and real world approaches, so your leaders leave with clarity about what to do next and the confidence to put it into action.
Join 100s of Certified Workplace Wellbeing Leaders
Since launching this course, we’ve certified 100s of wellbeing professionals across diverse sectors including NHS trusts, local authorities, manufacturing, education, and professional services.
The course has given me the confidence to begin putting everything I learnt into practice and start making a difference to the lives of our employees.
Helen Field
Aspects Beauty
Brilliant insights and a great learning opportunity. A brilliant coursed, designed perfectly for any Wellbeing strategist, irrespective of experience level.
Jay Bradley
HCA Healthcare
A really insightful course for people at any stage of their strategic wellbeing journey – interesting, informative but also light hearted.
Karen Rosier
Wealden District Council
More Information on Workplace Wellness Certification
What does a Wellbeing Lead do?
A wellbeing lead is responsible for developing, coordinating and evaluating the organisation’s workplace wellbeing strategy. This includes identifying employee health priorities, and organising initiatives to improve wellbeing across the workforce. Wellbeing leads must create a positive workplace environment that aligns wellbeing activity with wider business objectives.
Is this Course Suitable for Organisations without an existing Wellbeing Strategy?
Absolutely. If your workplace doesn’t have a formal wellbeing strategy in place, we provide a clear, structured framework to help you design and implement one with confidence.
For organisations that already have a wellbeing strategy, this workplace wellness certification will help you refine your objectives and action plan, and strengthen your measurement and reporting processes to clearly demonstrate ROI.
What other Workplace Wellbeing Services do you offer?
At New Leaf Health, we are specialists in delivering best in class workplace health and wellbeing solutions. Our main offerings include:
- Employee Health Screening: Provide employees with personalised health insights while giving organisations anonymised data to inform strategy.
- Employee Health Checks: On-site health assessments designed to identify risk factors early and support preventative health interventions.
- Wellbeing Fairs: Engaging workplace events that bring together wellbeing workshops, health assessments and wellbeing activities to promote a culture of health.