It’s day three of our Health & Wellness Series! Today we’re featuring Amber, who set several small goals and achieved them through persistence and the accountability she felt toward her team.

In addition to creating some new healthy habits, Amber also lost an impressive amount of weight!

Day two of our Health & Wellness series is all about weight loss! As part of our Healthy Active You challenge, we had an optional weight loss element for those who wanted to add some additional incentive to their efforts. I just did the math, and only counting those we tracked, together we lost close to 150 pounds!

Today’s featured champion, Alan, was a big contributor to that number with nearly 20 percent coming from him. Way to go, Alan!

Our second annual Healthy Active You fitness challenge has just ended, and, like last year, it was another huge success. I’ve heard so many great stories of positive changes our team members have made that I’m going to spend the whole week sharing them with you!

Our first fitness champion is Lindsay.

Back in 2009, Baudville decided it was time to re-invent itself. We hired a consulting firm who redesigned our logo, our color scheme, the look and feel of our marketing materials, and the tone of our messaging. As I write this, I feel like I’m revealing the man behind the curtain; but, hey, we’re all business people here and we know that this is what happens in the corporate world. Meijer did it. JCPenney did it. We did it.

At Baudville, we talk a lot about teamwork, and we help businesses promote it through our more than 20 teamwork-related themes. Being the person who writes many of these sentiments, I have to admit that, at times, I view it so much as a philosophy that I forget what it means to actually experience it in the physical form. Cooperation, unity, collaboration, and synergy are all words we toss around; but what do they really mean?

Well, last Friday I had the privilege of witnessing and participating in the very definition of these words. The project was organized and funded by a non-profit called KaBoom, and benefitted D.A. Blodgett’s St. John’s Home—a local agency that provides a wealth of support services and resources to children and families in need in our community.

It was amazing.