{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Success Reimagined with Amna Shabbir MD","title":"Ep 81. Rethinking Workplace Wellness in Healthcare with Derek Bell, VP at Vital WorkLife","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2913,"description":"What if workplace wellness is failing because we keep trying to fix people instead of fixing the systems around them?\nIn this episode, Dr. Amna Shabbir sits down with Derek Bell, MS, CWP, Vice President of Solutions and Clinical Operations at Vital WorkLife, to rethink what well-being really means at work.\nDerek explains why yoga classes, mindfulness apps, resilience training, and wellness perks can only go so far when employees are dealing with understaffing, heavy workloads, limited autonomy, and poor leadership. They explore what organizations can do differently to create workplaces where people actually feel seen, supported, and able to thrive.\nThey also discuss purpose, “deep gladness,” perfectionism, and why progress, experimentation, and connection may matter more than chasing an ideal version of wellness.\nIn this episode, you’ll learn:\nWorkplace wellness must address root causes, not just symptoms of burnout.\nResilience training cannot compensate for broken systems, understaffing, or overwhelming workloads.\nLeadership, autonomy, psychological safety, and feeling heard are critical to employee well-being.\nOrganizations should measure outcomes like retention, burnout, patient experience, and performance, not just wellness-program participation.\nTrue well-being is deeply connected to meaning, purpose, identity, and contribution.\nPerfectionism can limit experimentation and growth; progress requires accepting some messiness.\nWellness is less about constantly doing more and more about creating conditions where people can truly flourish.\nAbout Derek Bell\nDerek Bell is Vice President of Solutions and Clinical Operations at VITAL WorkLife and a nationally recognized expert in workplace health and well-being. He has led enterprise-wide well-being strategies and previously served in leadership roles with the National Wellness Institute and Ascension.\nDerek also teaches “Finding Purpose and Meaning in Our Work” in the MBA program at the University of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QEE2f337cKVpjs0qsD34kLfH1IC05rMH7dxK2ABS5Zk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82Yjk4/YjMyNjBlMmQ1ZWZi/OGNhYzZiYmNmODQy/NDdlMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}