The Top Priorities For Purpose Driven Leaders in 2025
Employee and Community Health and Well-Being
I’m Jim Moss – I help senior executives, organizations, and communities enhance leadership knowledge and strategic planning to optimize employee and community health, well-being, and workplace culture.
My Latest And Most Popular 1/2 Day Training For Sr. Leaders
The Foundations of Culture: Trust and Community
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Joining CYPT as Co-Chair
Jim Moss to share leadership of the Children and Youth Planning Table steering committee as Community Co-Chair. He will work alongside of Barb Cardow from the Region of Waterloo and support Alison Pearson the Manager of CYPT Backbone team from 2024-2028.
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Languishing vs Flourishing
So many clients and their teams report a sense of stagnation and a life lived in the space between joy and misery. Understanding languishing can clarify our understanding of our emotions and help us find the most appropriate responses.
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The Foundations of Culture
Think of your workplace as a house, and the culture as the foundation. Outlining the importance of the Foundations of Workplace Culture - Community, Trust, and Communication
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Survival Tips For Leaders During Hyper-Stressful Times
We find ourselves in extraordinary times. Leaders are working overtime developing and executing emergency strategies. Here are a few suggestions based on our research and expertise.
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Time to (re)Develop our Leaders
Trust, community, and communication are the foundational components of healthy, productive workplace culture. We need our leaders to master these concepts if we want our organizations to thrive and grow.
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100 Healthiest Workplaces Have Higher Stock Earnings
Fresh off the press, the University of Oxford Well-being Research Department has released an update on the most significant and convincing macro business case for the importance of #WorkplaceWellBeing on organizational success.
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Empowered or Compliance Workplace?
Description goes Do your employees look to management for permission to act? Is there a script used to deliver service? Or a set of rules for the one or few ways people are allowed to solve problems? Does your workplace allow people freedom in how they best solve issues
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Managing Workload Stress: Conversations That Matter Podcast
Conversations that Matter Podcast with Kurt Hammond: “A series of virtual one-hour lunchtime conversations held in February 2022. On Monday we talked with Jim Moss, Formerly the Executive Director and Co-Founder of YMCA WorkWell.
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Five Ways You Might Be Screwing Up Employee Surveys
Over the past ten years I have reviewed hundreds of surveys, reports, and thousands of responses. I regularly see organizations who are guilty of five common missteps in the way that they collect data and act on employee insights.
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Inclusion is Good, Belonging is Better
Belonging and inclusion are often discussed together in workplace culture and community development, but they have distinct impacts. Inclusion welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, belonging ensures they feel integral to the community.
Three Powerful Strategies for Leaders to Strengthen Workplace and Community Culture and Well-being
Leadership Development
Despite progress in leadership development, foundational principles are still often overlooked. Equip your leaders with core knowledge in health, wellness, and well-being, along with the basics of community and trust, to foster a culture that values employee care and boosts performance. Many leaders have never been taught these fundamentals, and enhancing this knowledge can lead to immediate improvements.
Your strategy may overlook well-being simply because its importance wasn’t clear during planning. To be truly strategic, your approach should enhance employee experience, support your vision and mission, and align with your values. I’ll help you integrate well-being into your next strategic plan.
Culture is the culmination of our thoughts and actions and how they create a predictable work experience. Culture is how we expect it to feel while we work together towards our shared goals, making it even more important that it creates positive expectations. Let's make being well and doing well part of what your employees should expect now and in the future they imagine.
"Top-Ranked Speaker at Three Separate Sessions of Deloitte's 360° Innovation Conference"
Customer Testimonials
Jim’s sessions with my teams are legendary and are spoken about for years after. More importantly the impact of his work reverberates throughout our teams… I highly recommend him.
Jim was the highest rated speaker at our event… exceeded my expectations with how quickly he learned and incorporated our desired outcomes.
It is an absolute pleasure to work with Jim! He brings his authentic self and provided insightful food-for-thought to our leaders regarding community and trust.
Important Trends Impacting Most Workplaces:
The pandemic caused people to reflect on what they care about and reconsider their core values.
Health and well-being matter more than ever and we think twice about how we spend our precious time.
Employees are expecting the leaders and workplace to care about and support employee well-being.
Are You Dealing With Any Of These Existing Challenges?
Workload is an issue.
Workload presents a significant challenge for most leaders, often leading them to become reactive and prioritize tasks they are most familiar with. This can result in overlooking poorly understood concepts until they manifest into problematic issues.
Behind on Training.
Mid-level leaders often lack sufficient training, making it particularly challenging to adapt to change. Without fundamental knowledge, they are left to navigate changes haphazardly, increasing the likelihood of uncertainty in their approach.
Aspirational Culture
Leaders prioritize and measure performance against strategic objectives. Without inclusion in the strategic plan, workplace culture and well-being will never receive the necessary time and attention to move from aspirational to actual.