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Strategic Well-being Partner Retainer

 

Through monthly strategic alignment, live interventions, practical resources, and ongoing engagement touchpoints, we help firms build healthier patterns of work, support their people more intentionally, and strengthen workplace well-being in ways that are both human and practical.

Evidence-Based Well-being Support for Audit, Accounting, and Corporate Firms

When pressure becomes the norm, well-being cannot be left to chance.

The corporate world operates in demanding environments where deadlines are tight, standards are high, and people often experience depleted internal reserves. Over time, this can affect morale, energy, resilience, focus, relationships, and the overall health of the workplace culture.

Our Outsourced Well-being Officer service was created to help firms respond to these pressures in a more intentional, credible, and sustainable way.

This is not a generic wellness offering. It is a dedicated monthly support service for firms that want focused, science-based well-being input from professionals who understand both the realities of the workplace and the research behind human flourishing.

Led by practitioners who hold master’s degrees in positive psychology and a doctorate degree in social work, our service brings together evidence-based interventions, practical workplace application, and profession-specific insight to help your people function, cope, and grow more effectively in high-pressure environments.

Why this service matters

Many firms care deeply about their people, but struggle to find the time, structure, or specialist capacity to provide meaningful well-being support on an ongoing basis.

Too often, workplace well-being is reduced to:

  • a once-off talk,

  • a few motivational messages,

  • an awareness campaign with little follow-through,

  • or support that feels too generic for the realities of professional services.

Your people need more than good intentions.

They need support that is:

  • relevant to the pressures they actually face,

  • grounded in sound science,

  • practical enough to apply in daily work,

  • and consistent enough to make a real difference over time.

That is where our Outsourced Well-being Officer service comes in ...

What is an Outsourced Well-being Officer?

An Outsourced Well-being Officer is a dedicated external well-being partner who supports your firm on a monthly basis through structured, evidence-based well-being initiatives tailored to your workplace context.

We work alongside your leadership, people teams, and employees to identify well-being priorities, deliver meaningful interventions, reinforce practical habits, and help create a healthier, more sustainable work environment.

This service is especially valuable for firms that:

  • are navigating ongoing stress and deadline pressure,

  • want to support staff more proactively,

  • are concerned about fatigue, morale, burnout risk, or disengagement,

  • want a more focused and professional approach to workplace well-being,

  • or need a specialist partner without appointing a full-time internal role.

Our approach

Our work is grounded in the science of positive psychology and informed by evidence-based principles related to well-being, resilience, strengths, emotional regulation, healthy functioning, and sustainable performance.

We do not rely on vague inspiration or surface-level wellness trends.

Instead, we provide structured support that helps people:

  • manage pressure more effectively,

  • strengthen resilience and coping resources,

  • build healthier thought and behaviour patterns,

  • reconnect with strengths and meaning,

  • improve emotional awareness and self-management,

  • and foster healthier ways of working within teams.

Our aim is not simply to make people feel good for a moment.
Our aim is to help firms build the internal conditions that support people to function well, work well, and live well over time.

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Designed specifically for audit, accounting, and corporate firms

We understand that your people often work within environments marked by:

  • cyclical deadlines,

  • compliance and quality pressures,

  • sustained cognitive load,

  • demanding client expectations,

  • high levels of responsibility, and

  • seasons where stress can escalate quickly.

Because of this, our support is not generic.

We tailor our themes, interventions, language, and touchpoints to the lived realities of professionals working in audit, accounting, advisory, and related financial environments.

That means your people receive support that feels relevant, practical, and aligned to the actual pressure points in the workplace.

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Who this is for

This service is ideal for firms that:

  • want to strengthen workplace well-being in a meaningful and professional way,

  • value evidence-based support over generic wellness content,

  • want help addressing stress, pressure, and fatigue proactively,

  • need an outsourced specialist partner to complement leadership or HR efforts,

  • want to foster a healthier workplace culture without creating a full internal department,

  • or are looking for additional support during demanding or high-risk periods.

Outsourcing this function gives firms access to a specialist well-being partner without the cost, complexity, or time involved in creating a full internal role.

It also offers:

  • external perspective,

  • fresh energy and expertise,

  • a structured monthly rhythm,

  • focused implementation support, and

  • a credible, professional response to employee well-being needs.

For many firms, this becomes a practical bridge between caring about well-being and actually delivering it in a consistent and meaningful way.

improved resilience under pressure

Stronger coping and self-management

Better emotional awareness and regulation

Greater strengths use and confidence

Improved morale and relational climate

More intentional well-being conversations

Healthier daily practices

Stronger foundation for a sustainable workplace culture

What the service (retainer) can include ...

Discovery and alignment

We begin with a discovery conversation to understand your firm’s needs, pressure points, goals, and current people challenges. This helps us align the monthly well-being focus with what is happening in your workplace.
We help you build a tailor-made program for your firm's needs!

Monthly well-being theme

Each month centres on a chosen well-being theme tailored to your firm’s needs, for example:
Stress Management
Resilience Building
Strengths-Based Growth
Mindfulness and Balance, and more!

Live online well-being sessions

These guided sessions are practical, engaging, and relevant to workplace application. Sessions may include education, reflection, discussion, tools, and structured interventions that help staff put the content into practice.

Downloadable resources and guided exercises

To support carry-over beyond the live sessions, we provide practical PDFs, worksheets, prompts, reflection tools, and guided activities that reinforce the monthly theme.

Audio or video support

Bite-sized guidance, encouragement, or teaching can be shared through short audio clips or video-based resources to strengthen consistency and engagement.

Digital touchpoints

Where relevant, weekly digital support can be provided through e-mail or WhatsApp-based content, including short reflections, encouragement, micro-practices, weekly challenges, polls, or practical reminders to embed the theme into everyday work.

Quick-fire coaching support

Selected packages may include short one-to-one coaching touchpoints to help staff apply the well-being tools to immediate workplace challenges in a focused and accessible way.

Feedback and insight

We provide brief monthly feedback to leadership on engagement patterns, emerging needs, and recommended areas of focus, while respecting appropriate confidentiality boundaries.

Training Well-being Ambassadors

An evidence-based training programme that equips internal workplace well-being champions with the knowledge, tools, and practical strategies to support healthier teams and a more sustainable workplace culture.

We take the responsibility of workplace well-being seriously.

Our service is built on the understanding that firms need support that is both compassionate and credible. That is why our interventions are grounded in established well-being science and delivered by professionals trained at master’s level in positive psychology.

This allows us to offer support that is thoughtful, research-informed, and tailored to real workplace functioning rather than superficial motivation alone.

When pressure rises, well-being often becomes more urgent, not less.

If your team is carrying strain, if morale is under pressure, or if your firm wants a more intentional way to support people in demanding seasons, our Outsourced Well-being Officer Retainer service offers a structured and evidence-based path forward.

We would be honoured to partner with your firm in helping your people thrive more sustainably at work.

Ready to explore what outsourced well-being support could look like for your firm?

Let’s start with a discovery conversation to discuss your current needs, priorities, and the level of support that would serve your team best.

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Meet your Well-being Officers

As your dedicated outsourced Well-Being Officers, we support your team with actionable strategies and resources to enhance workplace well-being. Recognizing the critical role of mental health and well-being in sustaining peak performance, we integrate evidence-based strategies from positive psychology, which will provide your team with the tools to navigate stress, build resilience, and thrive in the workplace. 

This proactive approach to well-being will not only enhance individual and team performance but also foster a culture of positivity and support, ensuring your organization continues to excel.

Got any questions?
Contact Lynette Berger at [email protected]

Lynette Berger

CA(SA), MCom,
CPEC (Executive Coach in Positive Psychology)
Masters in Arts of Positive Psychology (Cum Laude),
Maxwell Executive Leader and Coach,
Co-author of the EI Activator Report on Emotional intelligence, co-owner

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Dr. Arnel Huisamen

MA (Social Work)
PhD (Social Work)
MA (Positive Psychology)
EI Activator Co-owner

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Annatjie van Zyl

MSc. Applied Mineralogy, Masters in Arts of Positive Psychology (Cum Laude),
EI Activator Co-owner

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