A Brain-Based Approach to Employee Wellness and Empowerment
- Brainz Magazine
- Jul 17, 2025
- 3 min read
Written by Lauren Dorman, Registered Dietitian
Lauren Dorman is known as a game-changing Registered Dietitian. She is the founder of Don't Diet Dietitian and Schools, Master Food and Mood. She is a speaker and expert in Nutrition, Food Psychology, and Emotional Eating. She developed The Nine to Nourished Experience, 9 core strategies to refuel one's relationship with food, body, and brain.
The research is clear: Employee well-being directly fuels productivity, engagement, innovation, performance, and retention. It affects not only whether people stay with a company, but also how they show up, lead, solve problems, and contribute every single day in the workplace.
This is more than just a brief yoga practice or lunchtime massage, a mini meditation, or a healthy snack in the breakroom. It’s time to trade surface-level wellness for a transformational experience and neuroscience-rooted approach, one that rewires how your team thinks, feels, and performs.
Pouring from a full cup: Optimize the brain to master performance habits
Setting healthy goals is easy. But consistently achieving them? That’s where most employees tend to get stuck. So, what if your team were to no longer run on empty and instead operate from a full cup, leading to increased focus, creativity, productivity, and overall job satisfaction?
Inside this high-impact presentation, Mental Health Registered Dietitian Lauren Dorman breaks down the SHIFT framework, a research-backed approach where employees are provided with practical strategies rooted in neuroscience, nutrition, psychology, and sustainable habit change. SHIFT involves: Seeing a clear vision of your future; Having compassion for yourself; Imagining identity realignment; Focusing on your four core habits; and Taking action(s) to create significant change.
This is not your average wellness workshop; rather, Lauren provides employees with the necessary tools to build resilience, reclaim energy, and create lasting change, not just for health reasons, but to build performance, strengthen engagement, and improve the general quality of life.
Employees will learn how to become the CEO of their own brains and bodies, with “lightbulb” lessons to support team members’ long-term well-being.
What your team will take away
Rewiring of the brain to build sustainable mental, physical, and emotional health
Boost in energy, mood, & focus through intentionally activating the brain’s natural neurotransmitters
Brain-fueling nutrition that supports mood, memory, and high-performance thinking
Enhanced creativity & problem-solving by regulating the nervous system
Strengthened executive function by prioritizing the four core habits
Mastered self-care habits that stick without pressure, overwhelm, or burnout
A small shift in habits creates big change. By prioritizing both self-care and health-related behaviors, employees can experience the benefits of these core habits:
1. Improved employee productivity
When employees focus on consistent movement, nourishing meals, hydration, and restful sleep, they gain the cognitive clarity and stamina to tackle tasks more efficiently. The result? Better focus, better decisions, and better outcomes.
2. Enhanced creativity & problem-solving
Practices like micro-breaks and breathwork reduce mental clutter and spark innovation. A calm brain is a creative brain ready to meet challenges with new perspectives and confident solutions.
3. Better time management & attendance
Healthier employees are more present and punctual. They’re less likely to call in sick and more capable of managing their time and priorities. They know when to perform and when to rest and recharge.
4. Increased job satisfaction & engagement
When people feel physically and mentally strong, they engage more deeply in their work. They take initiative, collaborate more effectively, and ultimately feel more satisfied with their contributions because they’re no longer just surviving the workday but thriving throughout.
Lauren Dorman brings over two decades of experience in mental health and nutrition. The SHIFT method bridges the gap between knowing and doing. When employees apply these tools to shift internally, transformation shows up everywhere. They realize more ease in their day and flexibility in their mindset, along with more joy, fun, clarity, and energy in both their work and their lives.
Workplace wellness isn’t just something that’s nice to have; it’s an absolute must-have business essential. Your employees’ health habits impact their ability to lead, collaborate, innovate, and execute.
You’re invited to learn more here on how to support your team to lead from a full cup because thriving employees create thriving businesses.
Lauren Dorman, Registered Dietitian
Lauren Dorman is a dedicated Registered Dietitian, helping both children and adults to address the real root solution that enables them to feel calmer, confident, and empowered around food, body, mind, and self. She is the creator of the Nine to Nourished Experience, 9 effective ingredients that lay the foundation to create a satisfying relationship with food that will allow you to thrive. For those who think they have "tried everything," healing at the root cause can shift all areas of life. Her mission: sustainable success is all about tending to a process that feels good to you.
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