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Deb has addressed audiences in the USA and recently took her message to South America. In Canada, she has worked with a number of municipalities, universities and provincial conferences, and addressed other groups including the National Quality Institute, Department of Indian Affairs and Health Canada. More About Deb For those struggling to 'keep up with the Jones', it's difficult to keep pace with this one! Meet Deborah Jones - workplace wellness expert, entrepreneur, yoga enthusiast and speaker! Deb has created her life's work around her passion - energizing organizations to be healthier. She began to realize her dream in 1991 when she founded Vancouver-based Well-Advised Consulting Inc., a practice that provides companies with the thinking and tools to improve employee and organizational well-being. Translation: there is a link between happy, healthy employees and the health and wealth of organizations. To Deb, the concept is straightforward. Get senior people in organizations investing in their people and the return on their investment will be paid back in spades.
Deb believes passionately that long-term business success is built upon the foundation of a healthy organization where mutual respect, "Organizational health is an often misunderstood concept," says Jones. "What I mean by this is that companies that offer lunch n' learn seminars on personal health might claim to have a 'wellness program' in place but in fact, may be very unhealthy." Deb Jones has spent the last twelve years of her professional career helping people understand what makes up organizational health and why it's integral to companies large and small. A few years into her consultancy Deb realized there was no network in Canada for others like her - working in the organizational health business. She began looking at ways to bring like-minded professionals together to discuss workplace issues and challenges, and ultimately created a think-tank to propel the organizational health agenda towards a greater general understanding of its value.
In 1997 Deb founded the Health, Work and Wellness Conference [www.healthworkandwellness.com]. First staged in Vancouver, BC and initially supported by Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre and some key sponsors, over 500 professionals from across the country gathered for this three-day conference. Since that inaugural event, Deb hasn't looked back and has never felt so encouraged by the progress being made in Canadian organizations. Entering its eight year, and under Deb's leadership as conference chair, the Health, Work & Wellness Conference has been held at various cities across Canada and has become the largest national annual gathering in the country focusing on strategies for improving workplace health and productivity. In 2001 Deb headed the group that developed "Canada's Healthy Workplace Week" [www.healthyworkplaceweek.ca], a national week dedicated to the importance of organizational health and its effect on productivity and the bottom line. "Forging new ground in an emerging field is not easy," admits Jones. "So, when a colleague of mine described my passion to this cause as 'annoyingly persistent' I took it as a compliment!" Determined to have companies 'get it' and to see more senior executives in Canada 'walking the talk', Deb's crusade continues to create positive change in the workplace and to help organizations create environments where their employees flourish! Deb created her company, "Well Advised", to act as a link between innovative, healthy, talented people and effective organizations. We see our work as being a catalyst in helping organizations create work cultures where people thrive, thereby improving recruitment, retention and work-life balance. On a personal note, Deb's major interests include travel, music and yoga. She continues to search for calm and peacefulness in a world that often manifests little of either.
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The name of Deborah Jones on a conference agenda guarantees a cutting edge presentation and gives your conference the credibility that is a magnet to potential delegates.
fairness, and employee wellness-mental, physical, emotional, spiritual and social-is valued. 
