Three Colorado nonprofits—Homeward Pikes Peak, Tri-Lakes Cares, and Catholic Charities of Central Colorado—joined the Wisdom Works Collaborative to strengthen their internal capacity to thrive while addressing unprecedented complexity and rising community needs for their organizations. The Collaborative offered the leaders a structured space to step out of reactivity, reconnect to purpose, and build resilient approaches to their most pressing challenges.
COLLABORATING FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT
The Work
- Facilitated a multi-month learning journey rooted in the science of thriving leadership, blending individual, team, and organizational development.
- Delivered customized sessions for each nonprofit along with cross-agency working sessions to build shared language, relationships, and collaborative capability.
- Guided leaders through reflection, scenario planning, financial innovation, and strategic conversations to clarify priorities and identify future-focused pathways.
The Impact
- Leaders reported renewed clarity, stamina, and connection—enabling them to meet demands with greater steadiness and purpose.
- Organizations advanced critical operational and cultural shifts, including new leadership models, clarified strategies, and more aligned ways of working.
- Trust and collaboration strengthened both within and across agencies, leading to ongoing partnerships benefitting the community.
- The Collaborative reinforced each organization’s capacity to navigate uncertainty with greater confidence, cohesion, and a more sustainable orientation toward thriving.
IMPROVING BRAND AND TEAM ENGAGEMENT
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mulino Bianco (Barilla’s beloved bakery brand) engaged Wisdom Works to strengthen the vitality, clarity, and cohesion of its Italy-based brand team. With unprecedented uncertainty impacting both internal culture and consumer needs, the engagement aimed to help the team thrive while enhancing the brands impact.
The Work
- Designed and facilitated a six-month tailored development journey grounded in the Be Well Lead Well Pulse® thriving framework.
- Supported team members in cultivating greater inner resources, resilience, and connection during a time of high emotional and operational strain.
- Helped reawaken the brand’s caregiving identity by linking employee thriving with the consumer-facing purpose and experiences central to Mulino Bianco.
The Impact
- 20% increase in personal thriving and resilience among employees.
- 43% rise in inspiration and engagement at work.
- 59% improvement in team participation and collaboration—remarkable given the global decline in vitality and team cohesion during the pandemic.
- A renewed expression of brand purpose, reflected through several product activations to advance consumer wellbeing and connection.
DRIVING PURPOSE-DRIVEN SYSTEMIC CHANGE
Wisdom Works partnered with The Coca-Cola Company in a multi-year engagement to embed a purpose-centered, thriving-oriented approach into leadership, culture, and enterprise strategy. The transformations were designed to expand leadership consciousness and align business direction with broader contributions to people, communities, and the planet.
The Work
- Guided the top 150 senior leaders through redefining the corporate mission, vision, and purpose—integrating thriving into long-term business direction.
- Facilitated the creation of the company’s holistic “6-P Framework” (People, Partners, Portfolio, Productivity, Planet, Profit).
- Helped embed this expanded sense of purpose across brand strategy, operational decisions, and long-term commitments.
The Impact
- Greater recognition globally as an employer of choice, with rising engagement and leadership diversity.
- A fundamental shift from a profit-only mindset to a more holistic model integrating social and environmental stewardship.
- Adoption of the 6-P Framework as a strategic compass, shaping decisions across brands, sustainability initiatives, financial resources, work culture, and global impact.
- Innovations in product ingredients, sustainable packaging, climate protection, water stewardship, human rights, women’s empowerment, and education in communities worldwide.
- Strengthened leadership capability to measure success beyond profit and to engage employees in shaping culture.
DEVELOPING THRIVING SCHOOL LEADERS
To address rising exhaustion, turnover, and emotional strain among U.S. school leaders, the Principal Impact Collaborative integrated Wisdom Works’ Be Well Lead Well Pulse® assessment and thriving leadership framework into its two-year fellowship. This work aimed to strengthen principals’ internal resources, resilience, and capacity to cultivate thriving learning environments in the face of escalating demands.
The Work
- Applied the Be Well Lead Well Pulse® assessment to help principals understand their personal thriving and sources of depletion.
- Introduced thriving leadership practices to enhance presence, energy, emotional steadiness, and values-aligned action.
- Supported principals in modeling thriving for staff and students and strengthening cultures of connection and positivity in their schools.
The Impact
- 75% of participating principals reported significant reductions in work-related stress.
- 81% said they were more likely to remain in their leadership roles.
- 66% of staff reported that their principal cultivated a culture of positivity, resilience, and uplift.
- Principals gained tools to sustain their energy and purpose—critical foundations for shaping thriving school communities.
INCREASING THRIVING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY
A major home improvement retailer sought to deepen the leadership capacity of its high-potential leaders, middle managers, and supervisors by integrating thriving practices into its leadership development programs. The aim was to strengthen personal clarity, energy, and effectiveness across key leadership roles.
The Work
- Introduced the Be Well Lead Well Pulse® framework within leadership programs to help participants understand their thriving profile.
- Facilitated small-group leadership circles focused on personal reflection, awareness, and practical energy-renewal strategies.
- Guided leaders in recognizing how their patterns of stress and presence influence team dynamics.
The Impact
- Gained insight into what thriving looks like personally and professionally.
- Recognized how stressors were shaping both life and work in positive and negative ways.
- Found effective ways to step back from work and renew their energy.
- Achieved more workable balance among competing priorities.
- Became better equipped to cultivate conditions where their teams can thrive.
CREATING A GLOBAL INNOVATION ENGINE
A global beverage company’s Innovation Team partnered with Wisdom Works on a nine-month transformation to shift from a fragmented, reactive operating style to a unified, creative, and energized global innovation engine. The engagement centered on cultivating thriving as the foundation for strategic and cultural evolution.
The Work
- Designed a customized 9-month transformation program blending thriving practices, leadership development, and team alignment.
- Strengthened individual vitality, emotional regulation, and presence to support more creative and strategic thinking.
- Helped the team shift from regional silos to a shared global identity and innovation mindset.
The Impact
- Participants saw measurable improvements in biological indicators such as lower blood pressure and improved cholesterol profiles.
- Leaders experienced enhanced emotional regulation, creativity, and perspective-taking.
- The team expanded its collective capacity to innovate, collaborate, and operate from shared purpose.
- Strengthened team cohesion and a more energized, future-focused culture.
ACTIVATING A FRAMEWORK FOR THRIVING
Wisdom Works advised the development and activation of a thriving-centered framework across a global hospitality company during a period of significant industry disruption. The organization sought to elevate leader capability, strengthen a culture of care, and align internal and commercial strategies to support colleagues and guests in more purposeful ways.
The Work
- Shaped a thriving leadership framework integrated into strategy, leadership competencies, employee experience, and brand purpose.
- Guided wellbeing-focused workstreams, including leadership development, wellbeing champions, and guest-experience innovation.
- Helped senior leadership connect thriving to business outcomes and communicate its strategic importance across the enterprise.
The Impact
- Introduced a global gratitude activation strengthening cultural connection.
- Expanded brand portfolio influenced by a stronger commercial focus on care.
- Increased talent attraction linked to a visible, enterprise-level commitment to wellbeing.
- Grew meetings revenue through offerings designed to support attendee thriving.
- During major COVID-related disruptions, a culture of care enabled steadier communication and leadership.
BUILDING INTERNAL CAPACITY FOR AN AGILE WORKFORCE
Wisdom Works applied the Coach for Thriving training to build internal leadership capacity within a global healthcare organization undergoing a large-scale agile and cultural transformation. The organization aimed to reduce collaborative burnout, strengthen leaders’ internal resources, and create more connected, purpose-driven ways of working.
The Work
- Trained internal leaders as Be Well Lead Well Pulse® Certified Guides to expand enterprise-wide thriving capability.
- Informed the design and rollout of a new leadership program centered on thriving.
- Supported the launch of a global leadership experience embedding thriving practices across roles and regions.
The Impact
- Delivered 13 successful Coach for Thriving cohorts in 16 months.
- Trained 59 Be Well Lead Well Pulse® Certified Guides to support thriving across the transformation.
- Improved dialogue around collaborative burnout, strengthening team functioning.
- Supported nearly 400 leaders in cultivating resilience, clarity, and healthier performance patterns.