Worksite Wellness Specialist Certificate
Course
Course Description
Be a leader in
your profession and drive sustainable improvements in the health and
wellness of employees and organizations with the latest research and
best practices. This course is purposefully designed to
equip you with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and tools necessary to
create and sustain an inclusive culture of high-level wellness via a
comprehensive wellness strategy.
By participating in this course online, you’ll build
your competencies in worksite wellness and receive helpful downloadable
resources and assessments, PDFs of the Participant Guide and the
“Wellness Champion Workbook,” and the opportunity engage with your
facilitator and other participants in your learning cohort.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the business rationale for a comprehensive worksite wellness strategy.
- Explain how the Six Dimensions of Wellness model, Multicultural Wellness Wheel, and Wellness Promotion Competency Model support a comprehensive wellness strategy.
- Identify key drivers of a successful multidimensional and inclusive wellness initiative.
- Recognize the importance of fostering a culture of wellness for all.
- Utilize inclusive and responsive practices at all stages of design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive worksite wellness initiative.
- Utilize inclusive and responsive practices at all stages of design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive worksite wellness initiative.
- Apply foundational principles and best practices to deliver realistic, wholistic, and evidence-based worksite wellness programming.
- Use appropriate and inclusive communication methods and technologies to support, manage, and promote high-level wellness for all.
- Collect and use appropriate data to support a multidimensional and inclusive worksite wellness initiative
View this PDF for the learning objectives for each module.
Who Should Attend?
This course is recognized as the premier training program for worksite wellness, human resources, benefits, and interdisciplinary professionals who are responsible for the management and maintenance of a well workforce. Coaches, consultants, vendors, and others who support these efforts within organizations will also benefit from the information and resources provided.
Schedule
The course includes the following interactive online modules, which are all approximately one hour in length:
- Module 1: Introduction to High-level Wellness at Work
- Module 2: The Case for Worksite Wellness
- Module 3: Foundations of Behavior Change and Motivation
- Module 4: Creating a Culture of Wellness for All
- Module 5: Programming and Engagement for High-level Wellness
- Module 6: Communicating WELL
- Module 7: Evaluating Worksite Wellness
- Module 8: Next-level Wellness at Work
Download this suggested schedule for a recommended timeline to ensure you receive the most value from the course and complete the full program within six weeks.
Virtual Orientation Included!
Participants are encouraged to join an optional peer-to-peer networking and orientation via Zoom to meet the facilitator and and build community with other participants. Orientations take place at 3 p.m. ET on the first Tuesday of each course cohort.
Course Delivery
This course is designed as a flexible, self-paced online experience, allowing participants to progress through content on their own schedule—while still benefiting from the structure, support, and accountability of a learning cohort. While the core content is self-paced and accessible 24/7, the cohort model introduces regular opportunities for shared reflection, discussion, and collaboration with a facilitator and a small group of peers who begin the course at the same time.
You have six weeks to complete the eight self-paced online modules and pass your final exam to earn your certificate of achievement. You also have the opportunity to build your Worksite Wellness Specialist Portfolio by completing exercises during each module.
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2026 Rates (Early | Regular)
Member: $925* | $995
Nonmember: $1,125* | $1,195
*Register at least three weeks before your course cohort begins to receive early rates.
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For information, email [email protected].
Continuing Education
This course preapproved for 12.0 CE credits for: CWP (Category 1), NCHEC (Category I Advanced-Level CHES), HRCI, NBC-HWC (activity ID: CE-000181-1), SHRM-CP, and SHRM-SCP. View our CE Credit page for more details.
In-Person Courses: This course may occasionally be offered as a two-day in-person training. Any scheduled in-person courses will be posted on the Wellness Alliance Education Catalog and announced via email.
Exclusive Team Trainings: Schedule an exclusive in-person or online training to upskill your team and build a shared strategy while learning together. Email [email protected] to inquire about team trainings.
Not a Member? Join the Wellness Alliance to receive access to free live and on-demand webinars, discounts on courses and events, wellness initiative assessments, tools, and more.