Your wellness is worth
its weight in gold.
We’re here to encourage and inspire you in pursuit of it.
Gold Standard Wellbeing builds whole-person health at Marco, helping employees thrive at work and at home while feeling better, performing better, and staying longer.
Inside Out: Understand Your Body. Support Your Health
Small choices that help you feel better from the inside out.
This September, Gold Standard Wellbeing is going Inside Out: Understand Your Body. Support Your Health. We’ll explore simple ways to support energy, resilience and long-term wellbeing through nutrition, movement, recovery and a better understanding of what’s happening inside your body.
Your body is working behind the scenes every single day, and the more you understand what it needs, the easier it becomes to make choices that support how you feel. This month is all about building that awareness and turning it into small, practical actions you can actually use.
🌈 Join us for the Eat the Rainbow cooking demo, the Fall into 5K + 5 Challenge, monthly yoga, and our September keynote with Jess Sorci, When Your Body Fights Itself: Understanding Autoimmunity and What You Can Do About It.
No extremes. No perfection. Just small choices that help you feel better from the inside out.
Hello September 🫀 🧠 🌈 🥗💡
Confidence in Action: Play AUGUST Trivia☀️
Confidence grows every time we speak up, ask a question, share an idea, or cheer on a coworker! This month’s trivia is all about Confidence in Action, with a fun mix of communication, wellness, workplace scenarios, and a few Gold Standard Wellbeing surprises along the way. Trust your gut, take your best guess, and see how many you can get right!💙 Bonus Challenge: Invite a coworker to play and compare your scores. A little friendly competition never hurts, and confidence is even better when we build it together! 💬💪✨🧠Please complete the trivia by 8/31 to be entered into a $25 drawing at the beginning of September.
CONGRATS to our recent Trivia Winners: July - Mary Ruhland, June - Madison Hughes, May - Beth Kent, April - Greer Kosidowski, March - Marc Welander, February - Leslie Sampson, January - Eric Seng, December - Deanna Warrington, November - Hunter Bultema, October - Kevin Harrison, September - Tyler Johnson, August - Amy Mills, July - Andrew Perrin.
Brand NEW - Meal Planning made simple
We've partnered with NutriStyle to make it easy for you to eat healthier.
Their AI-powered platform creates personalized meal plans that adapt to your specific health needs and food preferences - then creates a shopping list and connects you to local grocers for easy shopping and delivery. We're excited to offer personalized meal planning that help you eat healthier and fits into your everyday life. It’s all FREE check it out now!
Precision Nutrition
Powered by AI Proven by Science
Week of Wellness ☀️Sunshine + Small Wins ☀️
Week of Wellness ☀️Sunshine + Small Wins ☀️
💙 Thank you for making this year's Sunshine + Small Wins Weeks of Wellness such a success! ☀️👟🌿✨
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Thank you, Marco!
The first two weeks of June, employees across the company came together for our Sunshine + Small Wins Weeks of Wellness, embracing the idea that meaningful change often starts with simple, consistent actions.
Together, we moved our bodies during daily movement breaks, explored new ways to relax and recharge, participated in wellness challenges, completed 5Ks, played Small Wins Bingo, enjoyed healthy snacks, and connected with coworkers both in person and virtually. From office visits and group hikes to virtual programming, employees across the country found opportunities to prioritize their wellbeing and celebrate progress over perfection.
We were also inspired by two incredible keynote sessions. Bridget Lavin's "Rituals for Relaxation" shared practical strategies for reducing stress and building restorative habits, while Kate King's "Recharge + Restore: Creativity as a Wellness Tool" highlighted the powerful connection between creativity, resilience, and overall wellbeing.
One of the most meaningful parts of these two weeks was seeing employees come together. Whether on a hiking trail, in a conference room, or joining virtually from across the country, Marco team members showed that wellbeing is about more than healthy habits. It's about connection, community, and supporting one another along the way.
Thank you to everyone who participated, attended an event, completed a challenge, joined a keynote, or simply took a small step toward better health and wellbeing. Every small win counts, and together those small wins help build a healthier, stronger, and more connected Marco.
Congrats to our Weeks of Wellness Winners:
Passport Grand Prize - Yeti Cooler - Stacy Otto
Passport $25 Gift Card Winners: Heidi Uphus, Leslie Sampson, Sarah Dockendorf
Small Wins Cooking Demo/Bingo $25 Gift Card Winners: Madison Hughes, Cathy Graves, Angelina Nunez
Small Wins Office Winners: Sherri Ramberg, Sandi Helm, David Dennis, Jennifer Hemmah, Terri Brakke, Becky Burdick, Owen Warren, Erin Vanderveen, Stacy Otto, Shelby Boumeester, Greer Kosidowski, Breanna Jeck,
Introducing NestWELL, brand new for 2026 and created specifically for Marco and Gold Standard Wellbeing. NestWELL is Nest Health Connections’ virtual wellness coach, designed to give you instant, personalized support for nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, mental wellbeing, habits, and energy.
Powered by AI and grounded in evidence-based wellness, it adapts to your goals, schedule, and real life, delivering guidance that is practical, supportive, and easy to use. Whether you need a quick reset, a healthy meal idea, help building a habit, or support managing stress, NestWELL is here for you, 24/7. No apps. No appointments. Just smart, confidential, personal coaching when you need it most.
From snowy sidewalks to sunny trails, Marco employees show up all year long. Across all four seasons, hundreds of participants walked, ran, and moved together with friends, family, coworkers, pets, and plenty of joy along the way. These quarterly 5Ks have become one of our most loved wellness traditions, reminding us that movement builds connection, strengthens wellbeing, and creates memories that last far beyond the finish line. Thank you to everyone who joined us — every step you took made this community stronger.
Q1 2025 Winners - Mike, Guille, Kim Hawkins,
Q2 2025 Winner - DJ Eschmann, Bob Karlen
Q3 2025 Winners - Wayne Rambler, Carin Evan, Patty Asmus
Q4 2025 Winners - Sandi Helm, Jeanette Faucett, Darlene Stang
Q1 2026 Winners - Nicole Dunlavy, Kris Otto, Kelly Feddema
Q2 2026 Winners - Brook Rundell, Deanna Warrington, Sarah Owen, Darby Comiskey
Run, Fun & Done: Quarterly 5K Highlights🏃♂️🥇🏃♀️
All New - 2026
MARCO’s 1st - COMMUNITY RUNNING CLUB 👟🏃♀️🏃♂️🏅
The Marco Running Club brings together like-minded teammates of all skill levels who want to move with purpose, build consistency, and celebrate progress — personal and collective.
This isn’t just a run group. It’s a commitment to:
Set and achieve individual running goals
Stay accountable through bi-weekly or monthly check-ins
Connect through local events and shared challenges
Support Marco-driven and community fundraising efforts
Learn through Q&A sessions, expert tips, and guest speakers
Short-Term Focus
Launch the club with clarity
Assess skill levels + define personal goals
Establish realistic commitments and action plans
Long-Term Vision
Build momentum through local + national team events
Achieve meaningful milestones together
CEO Doug Albregts introduces Gold Standard Well-being and answers a
question we all should consider: “What does well-being mean to you?”
We recognize how difficult it is to prioritize your well-being when work requires you to be in the car or traveling from place to place. In an effort to support your desire to live well alongside your professional lifestyle, we’ve put together Marco on the Move – a hub for all things wellness on-the-go.
UPCOMING
RECORDINGS
Revisit, watch on your own time, or explore our educational talks, movement breaks, guided meditations, wellness challenges, and more.
