Working Well

WorkingWell is a specialist management consultancy offering the guidance, measurement tools and support that companies of all sizes are finding they need to sustain healthy, high-performance workforces.

Founded by Lesley Cooper in 1997, when UK companies and the government were exploring more proactive responses to employee sickness absence than simply counting the cost of it, our service offering has expanded in line with the rapid growth of interest in employee wellbeing and the relationship to sustainable company performance.

Originally focused around achieving more granular measurement of important employee wellbeing risk factors, specifically the sources and behavioural moderators of workplace stress, the business now consults on all aspects of employee wellbeing management.

Getting underneath the sources of poor workplace wellbeing and helping companies get better alignment of training and support interventions is still very much of our focus - more relevant than ever as companies struggle to find ways of doing more with the same or fewer resources without damaging their human assets in the process.

Vicky Smith joined the team in 2012, bringing with her a background in organisation and people development, health science and psychology. A typical week now sees us consulting on assessing the current level of wellbeing and key risks to it, developing targeted remediation strategies, driving up staff engagement with wellbeing support already available, delivering scalable programmes for personal and team energy, resilience, and psychological safety, and upskilling leaders and managers to unlock discretionary effort and innovation in their teams.  

While this is going on, other members of the team will be providing emotional health support to employees and managers, or otherwise engaged in 1:1 wellbeing or performance coaching with all levels of seniority.