Tanya Fasnacht Jolliffe, RDN, LD, CIMHP, Founder, and ProviderThe company enables corporations and their employees to weave well-being into the fabric of their everyday lives. It moves beyond segmented, cookie-cutter wellness initiatives—which often turn into mere checkboxes in an employee’s overcrowded schedule—and works closely with corporate clients to assist them in identifying their unique characteristics and designing tailored, systematic plans that cater to their workforce’s healthcare requirements.
LIT Wellness Solutions helps businesses view their organization from a broader perspective, establishing health and wellness as core operational principles. This shift sparks company-wide cultural changes that prioritize health transformation over cost margins. Stakeholders identify the driving forces behind employee choices, encouraging their workforce towards desired lifestyles and behaviors centered around nutrition, sleep, physical activity, hydration, and stress reduction.
Tailored Strategies Nurturing Resilience
Tanya Fasnacht Jolliffe, founder and provider at LIT Wellness Solutions, is the visionary behind the firm’s distinct philosophy. Certified in integrative mental health, clinical dietetics, and health coaching, she champions an approach encompassing physical, mental, emotional, social, financial, spiritual, and environmental factors, presenting health as a complex interplay of diverse elements.
Jolliffe's pragmatic insights stem from her observations of the inexorable influence of non-physical factors on health outcomes. Her incisive work with individuals grappling with chronic health conditions unveiled a larger truth—health isn't limited to physicality. A spectrum of conditions, from hypertension and cardiovascular diseases to diabetes and weight management, often collectively account for 74 percent of healthcare costs and necessitates a holistic intervention.
This epiphany propelled LIT Wellness Solutions towards an encompassing, integrative approach that assists employees in managing chronic diseases.
“Our integrative approach helps individuals embrace a well-being-focused lifestyle that nurtures growth, fulfillment, passion, and purpose, further improving their physical and mental health,” says Jolliffe. “We exist to help individuals achieve the health and wholeness they deserve .”
Amidst its dedicated approach to chronic ailments, the firm focuses on a pivotal and frequently overshadowed aspect–stress.
In today’s corporate conundrum, stress has become a formidable foe for employees, exacerbated by mounting workloads, a whirlpool of office politics, and the lack of support, communication, and trust in management. By addressing these unchecked contributors, the firm aims to improve workforce safety, employee engagement, morale, and overall health. An illustrative case lies within the transportation sector, where the company operates as a strategic ally to improve driver safety, reduce employee turnover, and save costs.
LIT Wellness Solutions works with logistics companies to assist their drivers in maintaining their health, passing medical exams, securing relevant medical certificates, and retaining their CDL licenses, providing them with job security. The associated well-being programs help them become more vigilant to stay safe on roads and avoid accidents. Since the cost dynamics of medical coverage hinge heavily on a driver's experience behind the wheel, LIT Wellness Solutions helps businesses with potential cost advantages by hiring and retaining new-generation drivers through the Lifestyle as Medicine approach.
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We help companies ignite a safer and more productive workforce while improving health outcomes through intentional lifestyle medicine solutions
The labyrinthine challenges that corporate wellness programs face are nothing short of formidable. Despite significant capital infusions—nearly USD 80 billion annually—health continues its decline while healthcare costs rise inexorably.
This challenge gains sharper focus when considering that 70 percent of these healthcare costs are directly related to personal behaviors.
Here, LIT Wellness Solutions’ lifestyle as a medicine approach amplifies the mission’s impact and improves employee retention, substantially reducing healthcare costs and increasing ROI. It provides individuals with a sense of holistic wellness and guides them to attain their true potential. LIT Wellness Solutions prioritizes employee well-being as a critical part of good corporate citizenship that takes center stage as a business imperative.
Igniting Wellness-Attuned Lifestyle
The methodology underpinning LIT Wellness Solutions' transformative journey is succinctly encapsulated by IGNITE—a multi-faceted strategy combining organizational culture with individual coaching. IGNITE comprises a six-step process—introduce, generate, navigate, implement, talk, and evaluate.
The first spark is introducing a vision and values framework to ignite cultural change. The firm generates a comprehensive action plan and empowers clients to navigate potential barriers. Upon program implementation, LIT Wellness Solutions fosters constructive dialogue with the stakeholders about the processes, diligently evaluates the outcomes, collects feedback, and iterates on the strategies as required. This involves collecting data on employee health status, satisfaction, engagement, retention, productivity, and healthcare costs. The journey dismantles barriers, fosters communication, nurtures trust, and increases employee engagement, ultimately leading to an all-encompassing wellness culture. LIT Wellness provides ongoing support and guidance to clients, ensuring the sustainability and scalability of their wellness programs after the initial engagement.
“We help companies ignite a safer and more productive workforce while improving health outcomes through intentional lifestyle medicine solutions,” adds Jolliffe.
In addition to following IGNITE, LIT Wellness Solutions offers multiple tools and techniques related to this approach. The firm has developed a workplace culture audit that helps companies gather relevant data surrounding leadership, wellness, resources, hiring, and stress. Wellness leaders use this data to expand their outlook beyond healthcare spending and treat employee well-being as a key performance indicator. The process guides employers to gain their workforce’s trust and confidence while encouraging honest and transparent communication. Anonymous surveys are conducted to gain insights into the gaps between perceived and intended workplace culture, helping management identify strategies that translate into tangible results.
LIT Wellness Solutions’ coaching provides a dual-perspective lens for employee wellness programs—one from the vantage point of the C-suite and the other from employees themselves.
A recent engagement with a transportation company stands as an evocative example.
The client invested in wellness and culture solutions to support and retain drivers while lowering healthcare expenses. Statistics showed that drivers, ensnared in prolonged stints away from home, had increased their ER visits, cardiovascular and pulmonary disease risk, and had doubled hypertension and hyperlipidemia risks compared to other workers.
LIT Wellness Solutions understood the situation's urgency and devised strategies that reduce morbidity risk and healthcare costs. It conducted regular meetings, assessments, and interactions with drivers over a year. The firm also joined forces with the local safety department to develop a voluntary five-step coaching program, which included educational emails, lifestyle activities, and calls. The goal was to help drivers complete the exam 90 days before their CDL medical certificate expiration. LIT Wellness Solutions eliminated internal barriers by implementing new processes and services.
The results were tremendous—driver engagement increased by 20 percent, coaching assessment by 105 percent, and total active membership for drivers by 144 percent. The client significantly reduced driver medical costs, bringing them below USD 340 per person monthly. The coaching also helped HR managers recognize how overlooking wellness opportunities generated issues for drivers and employers, particularly when some individuals required extra time to prepare for physicals.
LIT Wellness Solutions' high-impact services have blazed an inferno of transformation that has garnered significant recognition within the purview of the industry.
Within a year of operation, the company received federal and state recognition as a women-owned small business (WOSB) enterprise (WBE). In 2021, the International Forum of Advancements and Healthcare (IFAH) recognized LIT Wellness Solutions’ program innovation. The firm recently participated in the Health 2.0 conference for bringing advancements to the forefront of healthcare, where Jolliffe received the conference visionary award. She is also the author of a mindfulness journal titled “The Mindful Me Journey: A 40-Day Guided Journal Toward a Healthier Relationship with Food and Exercise.”
Through its Lifestyle as Medicine methodology, LIT Wellness Solutions equips individuals with the knowledge and acumen to practice sustainable lifestyles. It illuminates a path to enduring health transformation through this distinct approach, anchored in transformational culture and lifestyle orchestration. The firm demonstrates its holistic experience by redefining wellness as a harmonious interplay of diverse dimensions.
