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Build your skills:
Learn how to be an effective wellbeing champion

On completion of this highly practical four-hour course, walk away with:

  • Key wellbeing concepts
  • Champion roles & boundaries
  • Strategies to support wellbeing
  • Confidence for wellbeing check-ins

Limited places in the next course – save your seat:

Kickstart your journey

Build your ability to influence change

Wellbeing champions like you play a vital role in the workplace. Champions are usually employees who volunteer to support wellbeing initiatives, act as a voice for colleagues, and help create a positive workplace culture.

Your role can include:

  • Spotting early signs of wellbeing, mental health, or stress-related issues.
  • Promoting positive culture, psychological safety, inclusivity, and open conversations about mental health.

Our public Wellbeing Champions Training is perfect if you want to become a champion in your workplace. You may be:

  • Someone in HR, health and safety, or organisational development.
  • A people leader looking to better support your team.
  • An employee at any level who wants to make a real difference.

This training helps you harness your passion, boost engagement, and drive real change in your workplace.

Learning objectives

By the end of this training, you will be able to:

  • Explain key wellbeing concepts and what drives personal wellbeing.
  • Identify workplace factors that support or hinder wellbeing.
  • Understand the role of a wellbeing champion, set effective boundaries, and navigate common challenges.
  • Confidently support others and promote wellbeing in your workplace.
  • Conduct meaningful wellbeing check-in conversations.

Plus, join your own cohort to learn alongside peers, access a supportive online community, and use tailored workbooks with all your course materials.

The course is delivered over two 2-hour virtual workshops.

Looking to run a course in-house? Check out our bespoke options.

Social wellbeing is one of the most protective factors for mental health. Imagine a world where millions of wellbeing champions were supporting people every day, everywhere, for everyone.
– ROW vision strategy

Evidence shows…

Workplace wellbeing champions can significantly enhance employee engagement and mental wellbeing by providing peer support and promoting healthy behaviours. [1, 2]
A systematic review found that peer support approaches for mental health can lead to improvements in depression symptoms, self-efficacy, and recovery, particularly when the support is structured and professionally supervised. [5]
Organisations with wellbeing champions experienced increased awareness and knowledge of workplace health among the workforce and senior management, as well as positive cultural changes. [3,4]
Implementing a peer support program can result in an average cost saving of €6,672 per participant. The cost savings in this study were primarily attributed to reduced staff turnover and absenteeism, highlighting the potential financial benefits of peer support programs in workplace settings. [6]

What people say about learning with us

ROW - great feedback
Janelle Somerville
RealNZ
Chief People Officer

I did want to drop a line through to say a huge thank you for your time and the session with us, after you left we ended up discussing the topic until well after 6pm and it was just awesome. The whole team took so much from it and really valued your time – thank you so, so much. Worth absolutely every cent.

ROW - great feedback
Workshop participant
University of Canterbury

That was the best professional development opportunity I have attended since starting here at UC. The quality of the content and the delivery was exceptional. A significant reflection moment for me about many concepts covered, it really was amazing – having openly experienced a ‘spectacular burn out’ myself last year I just milked that whole presentation yesterday for the golden messages kind of moment it was…self care practices not being luxuries, the shadow of a leader, healthy caring…I could go on and on!

ROW - great feedback
Petrina Austin
J Ballantyne & Co Ltd

Well you did an absolutely brilliant job. We were delighted with how it went and feedback so far has been very, very positive. Thank you for truly listening and considering our requirements and getting it right for our audience. We loved working with you.

John Bradbury
EMA
People Experience Growth Advisor

I wanted to thank you all for making last week’s webinar such a success. I have had feedback from numerous people, both in the EMA and outside (including my partner who is a mental health professional). This unprompted feedback has all been positive, so all very welcome! The different perspectives and examples you brought resonated and different people picked out different comments or suggestions from the webinar. For me the webinar it had the great vibe of a group of friends having a good quality conversation, with professional expertise, practical examples and humour.  Which is a great way into getting business owners and managers to think about how they can help address these important issues, as well as helping us all individually. Thanks again. It is the EMA’s most viewed webinar by some way for last year.

Katherine Swan
Randstad
Country Director

Your presentation was perfect for what I was hoping to achieve, and the team and I appreciated and learnt from your storytelling and vulnerability – thank you.

Your facilitator

Sarah McGuinness | Revolutionaries of Wellbeing
Sarah McGuinness
Founder / CEO

BCS, BSc(Hons), GradDipPsych, DipProCoaching, Cert IV Training & Assessment, Cert III Fitness  |  CEO/Founder – Revolutionaries of Wellbeing

Sarah brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in corporate wellbeing and behaviour change and has supported well-known organisations to improve the wellbeing.  She has a 15+ year career in the corporate sector specialising in leadership and organisational development in Australia and New Zealand, and her research on midlife eating attitudes and body dissatisfaction, published in the New Zealand Journal of Psychology, continues to be cited in leading literature. She has been featured in the media and regularly presents to workplaces – often drawing on her lived experience of burnout and how to truly take care.

Delivery
Virtual
The training sessions are delivered via Zoom with interactive elements.
NEXT COURSE
November 2025
Training held over two sessions – Thu 20 & 27 Nov 2025, 10am to 12pm (NZ time)
Investment
$339 + GST (NZD)
Price is per person. Also available in AUD, USD, CAD, GBP, and EUR at checkout.
Limited places available – save your place now!

[1] Wieneke, K. C., et al. (2019). Well-being champion impact on employee engagement, staff satisfaction, and employee well-being. Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 3(2), 106–115.  [2] Greenawalt, K., et al. (2024). The effectiveness, implementation, and experiences of peer support approaches for mental health: A systematic umbrella review. BMC Medicine, 22(1), 72. [3] Rocket Science & Institute for Employment Studies. (2024). Independent evaluation of the Workplace Health Champion project: Final report for Business Health Matters. Active Lancashire. [4] Mitchell, L., Amaya, M., Battista, L., Melnyk, B., Andridge, R., & Kaye, G. (2021). Manager Support for Wellness Champions: A Case Study for Consideration and Practice Implications. Workplace health & safety, 69(3), 100–108. https://doi.org/10.1177/2165079920952759. [5] Cooper, R. E., et al. (2024). The effectiveness, implementation, and experiences of peer support approaches for mental health: a systematic umbrella review. BMC medicine, 22(1), 72. [6] Roesner, H., Neusius, T., Strametz, R., & Mira, J. J. (2024). Economic Value of Peer Support Program in German Hospitals. International journal of public health, 69, 1607218. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2024.1607218.

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