Lauren Hotchkiss, MA.
Cultivating Individual and Organizational Wellness in Remote Work
After the forced shift to remote work during the pandemic, many companies are embracing the flexibility of remote and hybrid cultures for their employees. While these working environments can offer remarkable benefits, such as a more diverse workforce and increased autonomy for workers, they may also present unique challenges, including potential feelings of isolation or difficulties maintaining a sense of workplace cohesion and culture. Understanding both the benefits and challenges of remote work can help employees and leaders thoughtfully and effectively cultivate wellbeing in remote/hybrid work environments, which is critical to facilitating individual and organizational success. Lauren’s talk can be catered to fit your company’s wellness education needs and customized for delivery to employees, leaders, or blended audiences.
For employees, Lauren will equip attendees with the personal resources and skills they need to address feelings of isolation and poor work boundaries, which are common challenges that accompany remote work, and provide tools to bolster psychological wellbeing. By understanding the nuances of remote work, employees can navigate these environments more efficiently, thereby fostering productivity and achieving a healthier work-life balance.
For leaders, Lauren will provide evidence-based techniques that can be used to best support teams and help to mitigate common challenges associated with remote work. Lauren will provide actionable tools to promote organizational cohesion, bolster team dynamics, and help drive company-wide success in the digital workplace.
For blended audiences, Lauren will integrate strategies that help both employees and leaders co-create a flourishing and positive remote workplace culture and harness the potential for increased productivity, flexibility, and a healthier work-life balance that remote/hybrid work offers.
After this talk, attendees will be able to…
Understand the benefits of remote/hybrid cultures for engaging a diverse and innovative workforce.
Recognize the unique demands and challenges that accompany remote work and employ strategies to reduce these demands and challenges.
Develop individual skills and resources that can help buffer stress and isolation in remote/hybrid cultures.
Use several strategies to build psychological health and safety in remote cultures (for leaders).
Interested in this remote work wellness talk? Get in touch!
Lauren provides workplace wellness speaking services in Vernon BC, and virtually across Canada. She also loves to travel, so contact us to inquire about opportunities in other cities.
About Lauren
Lauren Hotchkiss (she/her) received her Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and her Masters of Arts in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the University of Guelph. She is certified as a Psychological Health and Safety Advisor from the Canadian Mental Health Association and was a Culture Audit Evaluator for the Great Place to Work - Annual List of Best Workplaces in Canada. Lauren was also the Chair of the Health and Education Committee for Mind the Bar Foundation, a non-profit supporting mental health in BC’s restaurant industry.
Lauren is an experienced public speaker and has delivered training to various audiences, from individual contributors to the C-Suite. As a remote worker herself, Lauren’s speciality is in creating an inclusive virtual training environment designed to get even the quietest learner engaged and able to walk away with new knowledge, ideas, and wellness strategies.
Lauren has worked in the workplace wellness space for over 5 years and her areas of expertise include adult learning, employee well-being, meaningful work, positive psychology, productivity, stress management, and psychological health and safety. Her research areas focus on applying psychology to digital-first workplaces, including how computer mediated work roles can be more meaningful and how virtual diversity training can be made more impactful for behavior change.
Lauren works from her home office in Vernon, BC, the ancestral territory of the Syilx people, where she practices her own work-life balance by going to the mountains and lake as much as possible.
“Lauren's talk exceeded our expectations! She catered to our company's interests in a"ddressing healthy remote boundaries and burn-out prevention in a way that was a perfect fit for us. She asked and answered questions throughout the talk that made for an engaging, high-quality experience that allowed us to get a better idea of how to apply her advice to our specific environment. We received excellent feedback from our employees on the practicality of Lauren's advice, and would enthusiastically recommend Lauren and her expertise to anyone navigating best practices for healthy and productive digital working methods.”
Logan Sigurðsson, HRBP: Americas, Training, CSR