Our Story & Team
Founded in Switzerland 🇨🇭 working globally. Our international team of wellbeing experts has a diverse professional background. We share the same passion though: making the world a better place through wellbeing
Our Vision
Our vision is that in the future we have less and less business and organisations to work with. Wellbeing as a life skill would be taught for kids in schools and at universities. And by parents. People would arrive at their first workplaces and they would possess these life skills just like they know how to count or write…
Our Mission
... In the meantime, we are here to change the world of work and work with you and with your organisation to educate and inspire people in large and medium organisations about strategic wellbeing and to develop it as a future skill and use it to design work-life to be healthy, human-centric and good for the overall community.
Our Name
Why Wellbeing? Why Designers? - We get asked these questions frequently, especially the second one.
Wellbeing because we are working on our mission through the lenses and tools of wellbeing. We believe that a Wellbeing Culture is the way to go for organisations in the future.
Designers because we are inspired by Design Thinking. It is a great methodology and mindset that encourages experimentation, co-creation, iteration. We need to start to design wellbeing on individual level in organisations but then we should not stop there. We need to design the wellbeing of the team that is co-created by individuals. And finally we need to design the wellbeing of the organisation that is co-created by teams.
Our Story
The old beginnings
2019 - 2020
The story of Wellbeing Designers started in 2019 when Reka Deak developed the concept of Wellbeing Design, the early version of Wellbeing Designers. This was inspired by her experience in the corporate world as a management consultant and change lead in organisational development, as a coach in personal development and her personal interest in spiritual and wellbeing practices how to cultivate and live a meaningful life. She co-founded a future of work ecosystem of Shake up the Workplace as well.
The incubation
2021 - 2022
Covid had some significant impact on everyone's life and wellbeing. As a new mom in this new reality Reka decided to take on an internal project at a big pharmaceutical company to drive innovative leadership development and engagement.
The new beginnings
2023 -
Reka returned to Wellbeing Designers and developed it into a hub for wellbeing education for global organisations. She is the creator and host of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast where she talks with wellbeing leaders and shares these conversation with the world. Today Wellbeing Designers is a strong collaboration with great experts from the organisational strategy, wellbeing and learning & development space.
Our Team
Founder & CEO
Switzerland
Reka Deak
dr. Ani Hovhannisyan
Education & Scientific Advisor
Switzerland
Benedek Toth
Technology Lead
Advisory Board
Our advisors share a significant experience in learning and development, employee experience, wellbeing and future of work in large organisations worldwide
Former Head of Personal
Resilience at SwissRe
Switzerland
Eva Haussmann
Senior Learning Advisor at Nomadic
Former Chief Learning Officer at Ketchum
Italy / USA
Robert M. Burnside
International Collaboration Partners
Trainer for Mindfulness,
Management Consultant
Switzerland
Elvira Häusler
Workplace Health and Wellbeing
Strategist at Work for Humans
Hungary
dr. Anna Toldy