Advisor Services
Your strategic partner in workplace wellbeing
Designed by educators, for educators, Well at Work is your strategic partner on your journey towards a flourishing school system.
Our team of Advisors brings decades of experience, insights from research, and perspectives from the experiences of districts across Canada. Whether you need a critical friend, coach, advisor, or consultant – our Well at Work Advisors provide the support you need to make meaningful and lasting improvements to workplace wellbeing.
We partner with you every step of the way:
Assess: We start with a comprehensive review of your current environment, policies, and needs
Plan: With your leadership team, we co-design a tailored strategy grounded in evidence and best practices
Implement: Step-by-step, we roll out initiatives at a pace your team can sustain
Learn: Shift mindsets, systems and cultures to support workplace wellbeing
Adapt & Evolve: We monitor progress, measure impact, and adjust strategies as your needs change
This phased approach means you’re never starting from scratch; you’re building on a strong foundation. Over time, you’ll build a culture where staff feel supported, engaged, and able to give their best every day.
Ready to move beyond quick fixes? Our customized, multi-year approach is designed to build your capacity for sustained change. Contact us to schedule your free consultation.
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Monitor and strengthen workplace wellbeing in your school or school district with the Guarding Minds at Work survey. This validated tool aligns with Canada’s National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace and provides a comprehensive picture of how your employees experience psychological safety and wellbeing.
With experience supporting school districts across Canada, the Well at Work team has the tools and expertise to help you make the most of Guarding Minds in a K-12 education context.
Benefit from our pan-Canadian benchmark
See how your school district stacks up against a weighted average of results from school districts across the country.When you work with a Well at Work Advisor to set up and analyze your results you’ll receive a detailed comparison to national data.
Already completed the survey? We can integrate your data into the benchmark and give you a detailed breakdown of how you compare. Help us strengthen our insights and we’ll provide a free comparison report in return.
Set your initiative up for success with practical, hands-on coaching. We’ll help you:
Establish timelines and milestones
Gaining buy-in from leadership and unions
Segmenting employee groups effectively
Analyze and communicate results
Interested in collaborating with other school districts in your area? Cohort-based coaching lets you collaborate with other school districts, exchange learning, and build collective capacity.
Engage your team with a workshop on Psychological health and Safety
Bring your whole team onto the same page. Our interactive workshop explores Canada’s National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the context of Canadian K-12 education and introduces the 13 psychosocial factors that shape wellbeing at work. You’ll also gain an understanding of how these factors are assessed using the Guarding Minds at Work survey.Tailored for your school district’s context
Delivered virtually or in-person
Guarding Minds at Work Summary Report: Let us do the work for you!
Don’t get lost in the data. Our Guarding Minds at Work Summary Report transforms your district’s 500+ pages of raw data into a concise, personalized, and actionable report. With visual dashboards, graphs, and easy-to-read summaries, we highlight critical findings, emerging trends, and priority areas for action – so you can focus on decisions, not data crunching.
“This has given me so much more information than I imagined that I could ever have.”
- Jerret Long, Superintendent, Lord Selkirk School Division -
The richest insights come from combining quantitative survey data with qualitative input from interviews or focus groups. Hearing directly from employees is essential to designing workplace wellbeing initiatives that truly resonate. Interviews and focus groups reveal employees’ perspectives, uncovering the experiences that drive the trends seen in the survey data. By triangulating multiple sources of information, you gain the nuanced understanding needed to create meaningful and relevant solutions.
Springboard for Workplace Wellbeing builds on this approach, offering a structured assessment of your current situation that highlights key barriers and opportunities. Drawing on insights from leadership, union, and employee stakeholder groups, Springboard for Workplace Wellbeing provides a clear roadmap to tangibly improve workplace wellbeing in your school district.
Well at Work Advisors can conduct interviews and focus groups. Employees are often more comfortable sharing their experiences with a neutral third party, fostering trust and reducing bias. You’ll receive a detailed synthesis of employee input along with actionable next steps.
Build your capacity. Advisors can coach your team in best practices for designing and conducting interviews and focus groups, serving as a thought partner as you develop questions and synthesize findings.
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From facilitated conversations to consulting support, our experienced and adaptable Well at Work Advisors are here to keep you on track. Acting as both a coach and critical friend, your Advisor helps accelerate impact while helping you avoid pitfalls.
Synthesize data and communicate findings. Identify key messages, prepare communications materials, or have us present results on your behalf.
Prioritize and plan. Facilitated sessions guide you through multiple viewpoints, establish objectives, and develop realistic timelines for action.
Stay on track during implementation. Regular check-ins help you explore options, overcome hurdles, and adapt as needed.
Lighten the load on your team. Advisors can provide hands-on support with tasks such as reviewing policies or preparing documentation.
Build your team’s knowledge and skills for sustained change. Customized professional learning, workshops, or inquiry-based collaborative experiences help shift mindsets, build shared language, and embed lasting cultural change.
“What at first felt overwhelming and impossible now feels reasonable and attainable - with small steps for a bigger long-term goal.”
- Spring 2023 K-12 Wellbeing Leadership Cohort Participant
From small rural schools to large urban school districts, every team is unique. Well at Work Advisors meet you where you are, offering context-specific strategies to enhance workplace wellbeing and cultivate flourishing school communities.
Stories
of Success
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“It has been a very rewarding experience to work with EdCan and Well at Work over the past year. We have completed the Guarding Minds survey with our entire district and have worked with our advisor, Charlie Naylor, to understand the results and build an action plan. With the busy work schedule we have, Charlie continues to keep us on track and the work moving forward. We are making progress! One step at a time and with the help of one another. We know that our students will do better if our adults are doing better. We could not have done this work without his support.”
- Marcy VanKoughnett, Assistant Superintendent – Human Resources, School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia) -
Black Gold School Division valued staff wellbeing, but before working with our Well at Work Advisor we were just spinning our wheels. Our Advisor reviewed our districts workplace wellbeing data, gathered perspectives from employees, and synthesized it into an easy-to-use report. The report made it easy to select our next steps and justify the investment into staff wellbeing.
Importantly, we were able to create a new Division Wellness Lead position, and the Well at Work Advisor’s Report was instrumental in onboarding the new hire. In the year since receiving our report, the Division has moved forward in several ways: restructuring how we deliver professional development to better accommodate schedules and reduce perceived workloads, funding for our in-school wellness champions for an additional year, fostering stronger relationships between school-based staff and senior leaders through regular school visits, and embedding wellbeing conversations into monthly board conversations. As we continue our work, we are focusing more attention to equity, diversity and inclusion to ensure wellbeing for all, and to ensure this work continues and grows through anticipated leadership changes.
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Le Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial (CSAP), le seul système d'éducation de langue française en Nouvelle-Écosse, a eu une expérience merveilleuse en travaillant avec notre conseillère Bien dans mon travail, Manon Séguin d'Ottawa. En tant que conseil scolaire francophone, nous avons été très heureux d'avoir l'opportunité de travailler en français avec notre conseillère. Avant de travailler avec Manon, le CSAP avait établi le bienêtre au travail comme une priorité. Le rapport de notre conseillère nous a apporté de la clarté sur notre situation actuelle et les prochaines étapes pour élaborer et mettre en œuvre notre stratégie de bienêtre au travail.
Notre conseillère nous a aidé à partager les résultats avec nos employés, en préparant une présentation pour notre équipe de direction que nous avons pu partager avec le personnel de nos différentes écoles et bureaux. Ces présentations ont donné à notre équipe l'occasion de réfléchir aux résultats et d'identifier les priorités. Nous sommes heureux de dire qu'il n'y avait pas de surprises dans le rapport et que nous avons accepté toutes les recommandations.
Depuis la réception du rapport, notre conseil scolaire a progressé de plusieurs manières. Nous avons revitalisé notre comité de bienêtre en y incluant une représentation de tous les groupes d'employés pour assurer qu'il soit représentatif de notre personnel. Le comité affine actuellement une stratégie de bienêtre pour notre conseil scolaire. Notre département des ressources humaines a créé des comités employés-employeurs pour chaque groupe d'employés afin de s'assurer que les employés aient une voix dans les décisions qui affectent leur travail. Et notre équipe de gestion explore comment nous pouvons améliorer la communication avec notre personnel.
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Our Well at Work Advisor’s report provided us with a solid foundation for advancing workplace wellbeing at Rocky View School Division. One of the first strategies Rocky View implemented was to create a new position dedicated to staff wellbeing. With our Wellbeing Coordinator hired, the Division has been able to move forward in other ways – collecting additional staff wellbeing data and convening a representative staff wellbeing committee.
In February 2023, the Division conducted the Guarding Minds at Work survey to gather additional staff wellbeing data. By segmenting the survey by role, we can see how different employee groups experience wellbeing.
February 2023 also saw the launch of a district-wide wellness committee. The representative committee consists of teachers, support staff, administrators, transportation staff, central office staff, the Director of HR and a representative from Alberta Health. The committee has met twice so far, and is currently exploring solutions to address burnout and to enhance appreciation and recognition.
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Our Division's collaboration with EdCan's Well at Work team has been transformative in advancing our approach to workplace wellness. Through the K-12 Leadership Course, our leaders gained a shared language to engage in deeper discussions about wellness. EdCan's Well at Work advisors brought exceptional expertise, working closely with us to understand our Division's history, assess our current realities, and design a personalized framework that aligns with our vision for a healthier workplace. Their guidance has been instrumental in setting both short-term and long-term directions for our wellness initiatives.
Dr. Meg Miskolzie - Parkland School Division