Navigate's People First Podcast
A new framework for wellbeing. Empowering employees to thrive
Ask almost anyone how they're doing at work and you'll get the same word back: fine. Meanwhile your tenured people are quietly heading for the door, claims costs keep climbing, and half your workforce is carrying financial stress, burnout, or quiet disengagement that never shows up on a dashboard. Fine isn't thriving, it's just where struggle goes to hide in plain sight. That gap between looking fine and actually thriving is exactly what Jen, who leads product and strategy at Navigate, and Matt Percia, a Navigate strategic advisor, spend their days closing. They walk through why most wellbeing programs (with their gamification and engagement dashboards) never touch the real reasons an employee is struggling, and introduce the PAVE framework Navigate uses instead to picture the future, assess the present, find the highest-value opportunities, and engage employees for the long haul. Along the way they share what happened when a 29,000-person health system stopped guessing about what its people needed and actually asked. We also cover: How to read the eight pillars of wellbeing so you catch financial or career strain before it shows up as a resignation or a claim What Prisma Health did differently that turned one new financial wellbeing benefit into a 44% jump in learning completions and a 1,000% spike in webinar participation Why letting go of last year's wellbeing playbook (even one that "worked") is often the fastest way to get better results this year
