Building on over a decade of experience in delivering corporate wellness initiatives and team-building events for esteemed clients such as EY, American Express, AstraZeneca, Hilton Group, and Deloitte, Your Work Wellness is committed to transforming employee well-being. Our mission is to empower employees to make healthier choices, improve their performance, and enhance their overall quality of life.
At the core of our approach is Nutrition Empowered Wellness, which underscores the profound impact of nutrition on health. We aim to help employees reframe negative thoughts and behaviours, adopt new, healthier ways of thinking, and establish sustainable habits. Our vision is for every employee to feel revitalised and “Fit for Work and Fit for Life.”
Our employee wellness initiatives are designed to address all aspects of wellness, including Physical Health, Sleep, Mindfulness, and Movement. We call this holistic approach ‘Your Work Wellness’. Our team of dedicated nutritionists and health professionals provides comprehensive support across these five crucial elements of health.
These employee wellness initiatives are not just about improving diet; they are about fostering a culture of well-being that permeates every aspect of work and life. By integrating these initiatives into your organisation’s health strategy, we enable employees to make better lifestyle choices and achieve a higher level of personal satisfaction.
With our proven track record and expertise, Your Work Wellness is uniquely positioned to help organisations enhance their employee wellness programmes. Embrace our employee wellness initiatives to create a healthier, more engaged workforce and ensure that your team “Lives Well and Feels Great.”
Our vision is a future where leaders champion wellbeing as a business imperative, a healthy lifestyle culture is aligned with strategy, embedded into operations and shapes how work is done to create thriving workplaces.
Learn more about our approach and Why Work Wellness matters here.
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Graduating from the London School of Economics, Kumud began her career in the city of London financial world at the Bank of England, where she was Head of International Investment Markets. Following a meteoric rise to the top of her career Kumud suffered significant burnout out and took a break from banking to reenergise, rest and recover.
In 2001, Kumud followed her instinct and her family heritage in the science of food, shifting gears to study Food Science at The London Food Centre. Pursuing her thirst for knowledge to understand the how to live well in a modern world she retrained in Food Science and then followed on to earn a Masters in Functional Medicine and Nutrition from King’s College, London.
In 2010, Kumud founded The Cooking Academy, an International, award winning, cookery school where she and her team of highly trained chefs, food scientists and nutritionists have provided corporate team building, cookery workshops, wellness services and nutritional coaching to organisations and individuals.
In more recent years with the increasing importance of supporting immunity, the gut and holistic health through healthy lifestyle behaviours, Kumud and her team have shared their passion for promoting health through the science of nutrition by developing nutrition centric, employee engagement and development programmes and presenting workshops, demonstrations and keynote events for large, global companies to improve employee productivity, engagement to increase staff retention and productivity, whilst reducing sickness related absence.
My vision and purpose is very clear, to put people in control of their health and wellbeing, to help them live a healthy and successful life.
‘Your Work Wellness’ has naturally evolved from The Cooking Academy and offers a bespoke and consultative approach to help organisations to support employees with their physical, mental and emotional health using our 5 Elements of Your Work Wellness. Dedicated to educating and inspiring others to live healthier, more balanced lives and an advocate of a preventative approach to managing health, Kumud believed that optimal nutrition and wellness are a business imperative and should be a strategic investment for companies.
Kumud enjoys fell walking, practises yoga and of course a very keen cook who likes to share her creations with her extended family.
Ian is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Member of the Institute of Directors with over 30 years’ experience of managing teams and leading companies through technical change in highly regulated industries, including nuclear operations and commissioning, medical, defence, security and aerospace.
Ian’s deep rooted and heartfelt mantra is ‘you are only as good as your team’ and whatever the challenge, his leadership style is focused on the support and wellbeing of his workforce to engage and energise them. Having led teams in a variety of industries, he recognises that building happy and productive teams, retaining staff and building loyalty is paramount to fostering innovation and maintaining a competitive advantage.
If we want to increase our growth, productivity and profitability we need to attract, engage and retain the most valuable of our assets – our employees
Ian joined The Cooking Academy in 2015 as a non-executive director supporting operations and financial management of the business. His thorough understanding of the fundamental needs of employees in an ever changing and complex corporate landscape shone through from the start and Ian has been instrumental in developing and founding ‘Your Work Wellness’.
A keen sportsman playing county standard squash for the last 35 years, Ian has recently taken to the slower pace of golf. He loves the outdoors and is often found in Scotland salmon fishing or walking in the highlands. Ian loves music playing both the guitar and piano and has two sons.
