We Flourish: A Guide to Supporting Proactive Mental Health At Work

We Flourish is about creating proactive mental health cultures at work that reduce mental illness-related absences, turnover, and underperformance. It is a guide for managers, as well as human resource and wellness professionals seeking to promote mental well-being. We Flourish features powerful step-by-step culture building solutions.

- Address the widespread mental illness crisis that is sapping employees' energy and productive potential.

- Increase the effectiveness of an employee assistance program and other health benefits.

- Create supportive environments at work and at home for proactive mental health attitudes and behaviors.

Between 2010 and 2030, mental illness will cost the global economy $16 USD trillion in lost economic output-more than cancer, diabetes, and respiratory diseases combined. Approximately half of your employees will experience mental illness. Your organization and team cannot afford the upended lives, lost productivity, and increased health care costs. We need to proactively support mental health by adopting practices that lower the risks and speed recovery from mental illness. We Flourish empowers organizational leaders and their employees to adopt attitudes and behaviors that prevent mental illness while building a thriving workplace culture.

Judd Allen earned his Ph.D. in Community Psychology from New York University. He is President of the Human Resources Institute, LLC, a research, publishing, and consulting firm that focuses on the creation of supportive cultural environments. Dr. Allen has assisted several hundred government, business, and community organizations to bring about lasting and positive culture change. Dr. Allen has authored more than 50 books, journal articles, training manuals and software titles. His most recent books are 103 Challenges for Manager-Led Wellness, Leading for Purpose, Culture Change Planner, The Social Climate Toolkit, The Cultural Analysis Toolkit, A Family Guide to Wellness, Kitchen Table Talks for Wellness, Bringing Wellness Home, Wellness Leadership and Healthy Habits, Helpful Friends. He lives in Burlington, Vermont and Montreal Canada.