Healthy Workforces
The McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) announced a formal collaboration with the World Economic Forum’s Healthy Workforces initiative. Together these leading global institutions commit to achieving healthier, happier workforces around the globe and improving the holistic health of employees, their families, and their communities. MHI’s role in the initiative is to raise awareness and deepen collective understanding of the importance of healthy workforces and promote an evidence-based approach to helping more employees, their communities, and society to achieve optimal health. MHI research finds enormous potential health and economic impact of investing in employee health, a $3.7 to $11.7 trillion opportunity globally.
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Reframing employee health: Moving beyond burnout to holistic health
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A new McKinsey Health Institute survey across 30 countries offers insights into how organizations can help create a workplace that prioritizes physical, mental, social, and spiritual health.
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Working nine to thrive
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Better aligning employment with modifiable drivers of health could unlock years of higher-quality life and create trillions of dollars of economic value.
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In search of self and something bigger: A spiritual health exploration
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McKinsey Health Institute’s global survey of 41,000 people finds that spiritual health matters to many, regardless of age, country, or religious beliefs.
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Jacqueline Brassey
Senior Fellow, MHILuxembourg
Coleader of Healthy Workforces and Director of Research Science at the McKinsey Health Institute, passionate about helping individuals and organizations thrive by promoting improved mental health, well-being, agility, and resilience.
Erica Hutchins Coe
PartnerAtlanta
Advises leading public-, private-, and social-sector healthcare organizations to embrace a holistic approach to care, inclusive of brain health and social determinants of health, and coleads McKinsey Health Institute
Barbara Jeffery
PartnerLondon
Focuses on delivering transformative organization journeys to change organizations and individuals as people and leaders
Lucy Pérez
Senior PartnerBoston
Leader in McKinsey’s Life Sciences practice, advising pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-product companies, and healthcare providers in addressing strategic, organizational, and operational challenges. Also Coleader of the McKinsey Health Institute’s work in advancing health equity, including in women’s health
Shail Thaker
Senior PartnerLondon
Leads McKinsey’s Northern European hub of the Life Sciences Practice and the firm’s global healthcare organisation and enterprise agility work
Brooke Weddle
Senior PartnerWashington DC
Drives lasting change at scale for global organizations through digital transformation, operating-model redesign, enterprise agility, and leadership development