Fresh ideas
When Natalie Holzhauer joined UNCC in October, the dining team’s wellness program, like many, revolved around staff achieving a certain number of steps per day. While that program got strong engagement, Holzhauer, who is the campus dietitian, saw room for improvement. At a previous job, she and some co-workers had played around with a wellness initiative that was “mostly for fun” but was a bit more multifaceted.
“I really wanted to focus more on not just physical activity, because that’s usually what most people do with employee wellness,” she says. “I wanted to add nutrition and self-care in there as well.”