Annual Celebration
Thanks to everyone who caught the wellness wave with us on July 23, 2025, at the 12th Annual Working for a Healthier Tennessee Celebration!
We’re incredibly proud of the dedication and hard work you pour into your wellness councils to make a difference in the lives of your colleagues. Congratulations to all agencies who achieved platinum, gold and silver level status and to the 2025 Well Workplace Award winners!
Our team would like to thank Department of Finance & Administration Commissioner Jim Bryson for joining us. We also want to thank Deputy Commissioner Eugene Neubert and Benefits Administration Executive Director Laurie Lee for hosting our panel discussion and announcing the award winners. Special thanks also to our panelists, Abby Sparks, Kelly Cortesi, Shelley Walker and Suzy Douglas, for sharing their insight as leaders. A final thank you goes to vendors Optum Health and Sharecare.
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Here's to a wonderful fiscal year 2026!
Enjoy these photos from the celebration!
This includes pictures of award winners with Department of Finance & Administration Deputy Commissioner Eugene Neubert and fun from the photo booth! Click the image below to go to the gallery.
Well Workplace Awards
These wellness councils have shown improvement in their efforts over the last fiscal year to organize and promote wellness activities that meet the needs of their employees. These efforts may include strengthening their agency's wellness council, improving wellness council communications and/or trying different strategies to engage and inspire their workforce.
- Department of Finance & Administration
- District Attorneys General Conference
This award recognizes wellness councils that excel at reaching all their employees and keeping them in the know about workplace wellness events, activities and resources.
- Department of Children's Services
- Department of Human Services
The Engagement Award recognizes wellness councils that move the masses, providing their employees with activities they want to join so they keep coming back for more.
- Department of Revenue
- Department of Labor & Workforce Development
- Tennessee Courts
This recognizes wellness councils that are intentional about including and engaging employees you won't often find working at a traditional desk.
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of General Services
These are superstar wellness council members who always have a positive attitude and are constantly encouraging their coworkers to engage in health and wellness activities to live healthier lives.
- Anecia Monroe-Davis - Department of Military
- Lori Shelton - Department of Disability and Aging
- Joseph Simon - Department of Human Services
- Jennifer Terranera - Department of Disability and Aging
- Jason Upton - Department of Agriculture
Achievement Level Award Winners
This level represents agencies that have shown consistency in workplace wellness programming and maintained gold achievement level for two fiscal years in a row.
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Children's Services
- Department of Commerce & Insurance
- Department of Correction
- Department of Disability and Aging
- Department of Economic & Community Development
- Department of Finance & Administration
- Department of General Services
- Department of Health
- Department of Human Resources
- Department of Human Services
- Department of Labor & Workforce Development
- Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services
- Department of Military
- Department of Revenue
- Department of Safety and Homeland Security
- Tennessee Courts
- Department of Transportation
- Department of Veterans Services
To achieve gold, agencies show consistency in workplace wellness programming throughout the fiscal year. They've organized and promoted wellness activities to meet the needs of their employees in our focus areas.
- Department of Education
- District Attorneys General Conference
- Higher Education Commission
Silver achievement level represents an agency who has shown consistency in workplace wellness programming in our focus areas and has built a solid foundation which will allow the initiative to continue to grow.
- TRICOR
Bronze achievement level represents an agency who has shown consistency in workplace wellness programming in our focus areas and has built a solid foundation which will allow the initiative to continue to grow.
- None