Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award

Nominations for the 2010 Canadian Workplace Pioneer Award close on February 28, 2010. Help us find a worthy recipient for this year's Award. To download the nomination form click here [.DOC]

Leadership, innovation, passion, commitment and courage are all attributes that describe a pioneer and we are proud to have so many of them in workplace health in Canada.

Canada's Workplace Wellness Pioneers are committed to the belief that the work world can be a better place and have contributed significantly to improving the experience of work in Canada.

About the Award

Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award winners are chosen for their outstanding contribution to the field of Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award winners are chosen for their outstanding contribution to the understanding and practise of organizational health. Since 1997, the Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Awards have recognized professionals from the public and private sectors who have made a difference toward significantly improving the health of the Canadian workplace. The presentation of this award is a highlight of the annual Health Work & Wellness™ Conference.

The Health Work & Wellness™ Conference proudly hosts this award and the nomination and adjudication process is handled by the Canadian Workplace Wellness Pioneer Award Committee.

Recipient 2009

Ed Buffett

Ed Buffett
President & CEO
Buffett & Company Worksite Wellness Inc.

Ed Buffett is the President & CEO of Buffett & Company Worksite Wellness Inc. Ed has been at the forefront of worksite wellness since a heart attack in 1994 demanded he change his life and inspired him to change his business. Only months after his heart attack, Ed launched the worksite wellness division of his business with the goal of helping employers to recognize the link between health promotion and worker performance and productivity. Since that day, Ed has worked to improve the health of Canadians. Under Ed’s leadership, Buffett & Company offers a number of evidence-based services ranging from preliminary health assessments to strategic on-site support for both private and public organizations. Ed also founded The National Wellness Survey, the authoritative voice on Canadian workplace wellness activity. In 2005 Ed was awarded an Honorary Doctors of Law Degree by McMaster University. His work in Wellness was cited as one of the primary reasons for this honour.

Ed is not only a creative leader in Canadian workplace health. He devotes himself wholeheartedly to improving the overall wellness of his various communities – locally, provincially and nationally. Ed is a member and former chair of the Board of Governors of McMaster University. He is a former chair of the board of the Whitby General Hospital and former vice-chair of the Whitby General Hospital Foundation. Ed was also a member of the federal government’s Action Research Roundtable on Workplace Wellbeing and from 1999 to 2001, and was a Board member of HealNet, a federally established network of centres of excellence for research in the areas of health, social and applied sciences.

Ed lives in Whitby with his wife Nadera, and is the proud father of three daughters, Sami, Tedi and Sarah.