Great Place To Work champions new era of workplace wellness

As workplaces continue to face rising stress, burnout, and disengagement, integrating holistic wellness into business strategy has become essential. 

‘Wellness at Work: Powered by Wellbeing,’ hosted by Great Place To Work Sri Lanka in January 2026, is a transformative conference created to help organisations rethink performance, innovation, and retention through a people-first wellbeing lens. This full-day experiential event convenes leading experts in HR, organisational psychology, and workplace culture to explore how physical, mental, emotional, social, and financial wellness collectively drive resilient, high-performing teams.

Through powerful keynotes, hands-on sessions, and evidence-based insights, the conference will guide participants towards building organisations where people—and businesses can truly thrive.

Attendees will explore a compelling lineup of cutting-edge topics designed to address the evolving needs of the modern workplace. Sessions will dive deep into the neuroscience and psychology behind stress, resilience, and peak human performance, helping leaders understand how the brain and body respond to workplace pressures and what truly drives sustained productivity and focus. Participants will also examine strategies for building psychological safety, trust, and a sense of belonging, uncovering how inclusive team dynamics fuel collaboration and innovation.

The conference will further spotlight the powerful influence of leadership behaviour on the wellbeing and energy of teams, offering insights into how leaders can inspire, uplift, and positively shape organisational culture.

Additionally, the growing importance of wellbeing initiatives in strengthening employer branding and boosting talent retention, and keep top-performing employees will be examined. Experts will also guide participants through best practices for designing systems, policies, and cultures that enable diverse, inclusive, and thriving workplaces, ensuring wellbeing becomes a sustainable, ingrained component of organisational strategy.

A special Wellness Experience Segment will offer an immersive, hands-on opportunity for attendees to engage with real-time wellbeing techniques—allowing them to personally experience the benefits of tools that can later be integrated into their own teams and workplaces.

This conference is particularly relevant to corporate leadership teams, employee experience and culture champions, mid-level managers and supervisors, as well as department heads and functional leaders who are driving people-focused initiatives within their organisations.

Great Place To Work Sri Lanka Director/CEO Kshanika Ratnayaka said: “When wellbeing powers work, everyone wins. This conference is therefore a catalyst for a new way of thinking about the workplace. Our goal is to spark a movement where organisations prioritise not just productivity, but the people who make that productivity possible. We envision workplaces that are compassionate, energising, and deeply supportive of human potential. Environments where employees feel safe, valued, motivated, and able to bring their whole selves to work. When we build cultures that truly nurture wellbeing, we unlock higher engagement, stronger resilience, and sustainable success—for individuals, teams, and the entire organisation.”

With “Wellness at Work: Powered by Wellbeing”, Great Place To Work is driving a new era of workplace wellness, helping organisations build resilient, inclusive, and human-centred cultures that boost engagement, retention, and sustainable success.