Thriving people drive thriving organisations
We’re looking to partner with organisations who want to be world leaders in health and wellbeing by implementing the Embrace@Work program: the first in the world to support employees to build a workplace where every BODY belongs.
What does body image have to do with work?
Each year body dissatisfaction costs business $69 billion in productivity losses and $27 billion in reduced workforce participation (2022 Deloitte Access Economics report on the costs of harmful appearance ideals)
$84 billion
The financial and economic costs of severe body dissatisfaction.
$68.6 billion
Productivity losses due to body dissatisfaction.
$27 billion
Cost of reduced workforce participation.
$200 billion
Cost of weight discrimination on businesses.
We know that workplaces will play a vital role in transforming the impact that body image has on our wellbeing.
Just as they have with changing our attitudes towards smoking, exercise, and overcoming taboos around mental health.
Imagine the collective energy your organisation could harness if your people stopped spending so much time wishing that their bodies were different and focused on unleashing potential, achieving high performance, and kicking goals at work.
And if that’s not enough, we know that overhauling the relationship with your body increases your team’s confidence, unlocks productivity and boosts your bottom line.
That’s why we developed Embrace@Work
Specifically designed for Busy professionals to unlock high performance Embrace@Work is a challenge that takes your people through 3 x micro actions each week for four weeks. Grounded in 20+ years of global research in body image, capability building and high performance culture.
We know how you can re-wire a lifetime of self-sabotage, distraction and dysfunction about body image to unlock each individual’s true potential and become part of a global movement that completely changes the grip that body dissatisfaction has on our performance, health and wellbeing.
The Embrace@Work program can be customised and scaled to meet your organisation's needs.
The full Embrace@ Work program is a learning and development intervention like no other:
Set the scene
Kick off with a keynote by General Electric’s highest rated speaker and 2023 Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt that is so powerful, your people can’t help but be inspired.
Empower with the Embrace@Work challenge
The Embrace@Work challenge is micro-learning coupled with powerful action. Less than 3 minutes of content and swift, impactful action three times a week over four weeks mean that the challenge is simple, effective and most importantly – fun.
Support with life-changing information at your finger tips
The content library is where the magic happens- your people have on-demand access to all of the tools they need to support their learning and practice.
Meet the founders
Taryn, Ellen and Zali are the expert team that founded Embrace@Work. They bring together decades of experience in body image research, behaviour change, leadership and organisational development. Together they have reached 200 million people in 190 countries, earned six degrees, published 60 research papers, spent over 600 hours coaching executives, produced two feature films, raised over $11 million for charity, published seven books, recorded a #1 song on iTunes, published a magazine, presented at Google and Harvard, trained over a thousand leaders and been invited to the White House by Joe Biden, President of the United States. And
not to mention – between them, they have nine children.
Ellen Hooper
Ellen is an award-winning executive coach, people leader and keynote speaker. She builds diversity and inclusion into everything she does, and has helped graduates, CEOs and Board Chairs to get unstuck and build a career they love.
Taryn Brumfitt
Taryn Brumfitt is a global impact entrepreneur & keynote speaker. Named Australian of the Year in 2023, she is a fiercely passionate advocate for social change whose message has reached more than 200 million people globally – and she’s just getting started!
Dr Zali Yager
Zali is an adjunct Associate Professor in Education at Victoria University in Melbourne. She has published more than 60 academic papers on body image and has delivered speeches about her research all over the world.
Why we started Embrace@Work
We had the lived experience, the research and the stories that made one thing clear: too many of us who grew up in the diet culture-ridden ’80s and ’90s were at war with our bodies. The shame we carried cost us our joy, our memories, our time, our energy and our dollars. It held us back from living life to the fullest and we were determined to make sure our kids wouldn’t grow up feeling the same way. That’s why Taryn and Zali started The Embrace Collective to change the future for our children.
Having raised over $12 million dollars, the Embrace Collective reaches 1 million children (and the adults around them) each year with evidence-informed resources that support their mental health and physical wellbeing.
The Embrace Collective’s work is endorsed by the Governor General, supported by the Prime Minister and is the result of partnerships and collaborations with government bodies across the country, hundreds of schools, and thousands of educators.
But after 20 years of advocacy, talking to children and working with the adults surrounding kids it became obvious – if we want to shift the culture around appearance pressure, we can’t leave workplaces out of the conversation.
So Taryn and Zali joined forces with Ellen Hooper, a lawyer turned people and culture expert who has spent the last ten years helping organisations improve their workplace culture and their organisational capability.
We know that adding workplaces into our global movement is the last piece of the puzzle to make real and lasting intergenerational change.
Think back to over thirty years ago when mental health was never discussed in workplaces, where people suffered silently and where the impacts on the work were real – they just weren’t acknowledged.
This is what is happening with body image at work right now. As much as they might like to, we know that your people don’t leave their body image challenges at the door when we put on our suits (or our tees and sneakers) and log on for the day.
The only way we can change it is to build new body image skills, and that’s why every workplace needs Embrace@Work.
Every business aspires to a thriving, healthy, and high-performing workforce, and Taryn, Zali, and Ellen have a proven track record of delivering just that.
Their evidence-informed approach doesn’t just inspire, it drives real change in workplace wellbeing and productivity.
STEVEN MARSHALL
President- American Australian Association