You can complete one short course as a standalone credential or stack multiple to build towards a full postgraduate degree at Deakin. Want to know more?
Course overview
This short course gives you the strategic leadership skills to cultivate a wellbeing-focused culture. Learn how to develop an employee wellness strategy that enhances physical and mental capacity, boosts employee engagement and reduces the likelihood of other negative flow-on for both employees and your business.
After completion of the masterclasses, you will be able to apply these skills immediately in your workplace.
- Identify, analyse and mitigate physical, psychological, social and environmental risks for your teams and organisation.
- Create a results-oriented wellbeing strategy that aligns to and supports business goals.
- Learn how to optimise personal wellbeing to maintain effective and sustainable leadership.
Entry requirements
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
Industry organisations and experts
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with Wellness Designs, GLWS Wellbeing and Pracademia. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Katrina Johnston, Director, Wellness Designs, has built a reputation as a pioneer of workplace wellness. She has over 25 years’ experience in the development and implementation of multi award-winning wellness and human capital solutions for small to large organisations across the globe.
Audrey McGibbon, Founder EEK & SENSE and co-author of GLWS Wellbeing, is a registered psychologist, researcher, author and speaker. Audrey has 30 years’ experience helping leaders reach, maintain and sustain peak performance, without having to make unacceptable trade-offs with their wellbeing, mental health or personal lives.
Larissa Bartlett is The Mind Games Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research and co-leads the Working Well Study, which benchmarks workplace mental health capabilities in Tasmanian organisations. Her research focuses on workplace culture, mental health, brain health and wellbeing, and she has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles while regularly presenting at scientific and public health events.
Wellness Designs is a consultancy business that works with Australian workplaces to create healthy, safe and high-performing workplaces. GLWS Wellbeing is a uniquely holistic, evidence-based set of online, virtual and in-person solutions developed exclusively for leaders and their teams. Pracademia is a social and health sciences knowledge translation company.
Course dates
All webinars will be delivered from 6pm until 8pm AEST.
Monday, 11 August 2025
Monday, 18 August 2025
Monday, 25 August 2025
Monday, 1 September 2025.
Earn a digital credential
We’ve teamed up with Credly to award you a digital credential when you complete this industry-recognised stackable short course, plus you can bank the credit towards a Deakin postgraduate degree. You can also share your digital credential on social and professional platforms.
Course structure
How you'll learn
Learn directly with industry experts in small groups during online live sessions delivered over four weeks. Build your expertise and elevate your industry knowledge with support from your educator, fellow learners and our team. We’re there for you before and after the online live sessions and assessment tasks. You are required to attend all masterclasses.
What you'll learn
During the short course you'll:
- learn about the business imperative for investing in workplace wellness for a high-performing organisation, including improved workplace morale, productivity, engagement and risk mitigation
- identify personal wellbeing and self-care as a critical foundation for effective and sustainable leadership
- learn strategies for serving as role models and enablers for a healthy workplace and culture
- build a six-step framework for developing a results-oriented and sustainable workplace wellbeing strategy for organisations of any size
- learn how to foster a mentally healthy workplace, including responsibilities and obligations, and how to recognise and support employees with mental health issues.
You’ll also have access to a series of additional support options to help apply and embed key learnings back in the workplace. This includes:
- free 30-minute virtual wellness discovery session with leaders and/or key stakeholders to discuss the findings of the workplace scanning exercise (assessment)
- two months' free initial access to The Hub – Australasia’s first knowledge centre for workplace wellness.
How you're assessed
Due four weeks following the last masterclass, you are to complete a two- to three-page workplace scanning tool template, including key organisational and industry drivers, priorities and current status of health and wellbeing strategy. To do this, you’ll conduct three 15- to 20-minute interviews with HR, safety and/or employee representatives.
Reshaping university education
An innovative learning structure delivered by a leading university. With more than 40 years’ experience in distance and online education, we’re proud to be adding this unique study format to our courses, providing you with more choice to further your career and fulfil your lifelong learning needs.
This course should be mandatory for all people leaders! It provided high level insight into wellbeing in the workplace with engaging facilitators and really gets you thinking about meaningful engagement with wellbeing.
Work and Wellbeing short course graduate
Register your interest
Our stackable short courses are constantly evolving to keep up with the fast-changing world of work. Don’t see a date yet? Register your interest and be the first to know when dates become available and new courses open.
Did you know you can apply credit to a postgraduate degree?
Unsure what degree you want to study? Study two short courses that interest you and apply both as credit towards a wide range of postgraduate degrees at Deakin – from business administration to nursing, sustainability to communication and more.*
*Subject to successful completion of the short course and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Limits on elective space in a destination degree are outlined in specific degrees’ course rules within the Deakin University Handbook. Typically, a maximum of four stackable short courses can be used as credit (2 credit points) towards a masters; and two stackable short courses can be used as credit (1 credit point) towards graduate certificates and diplomas.
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