Working Well Award

Recognizing Wichita employers who empower their employees to live healthy lifestyles

2026 Working Well Award

At this year’s Working Well Conference, the Health & Wellness Coalition proudly recognized Orion Training & Education as the 2026 Working Well Award winner, an honor that reflects not only strong outcomes, but a deeply rooted culture of wellness. Selected unanimously by the review committee, Orion stood out for its high employee participation rates and its ability to make wellness both engaging and fun. Their approach proves that when wellness is woven into the fabric of an organization, it becomes more than a program, it becomes part of how people work, connect, and thrive. Read more about their program here. 

Working Well Award Past Winners

  • 2025 Bold Award Winner: Heartspring, Inc.
  • 2024 Policy Award: Mental Health America of South Central Kansas. Winning ideas shared on the idea boards by: KLS Central Intake and Derby Recreation Commission
  • 2023 Winning ideas shared on the idea boards by: Marion County Health Department, KLS Central Intake, and City of Andover
  • 2022 Winning ideas shared on the idea boards by: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, KLS Central Intake, and Meritrust Credit Union
  • 2021 Conference offered virtually in three sessions, awards not presented
  • 2020 Conference cancelled due to Covid
  • 2019 Derby Recreation Commission, Great Plains Ventures, Child Start, Inc
  • 2018 Policy: Greater Wichita YMCA, Place: Celebrity Cruises, Program: City of Wichita
  • 2017 Policy: City of Derby, Place: Professional Engineering Consultants, Program: Wichita Public Schools
  • 2016 South Central Kansas Education Service Center, City of Derby, Textron Aviation
  • 2015 Via Christi Health, Royal Caribbean, Derby Recreation Commission
  • 2014 Bombardier Learjet, Hightouch Technologies, Vermillion, Inc.
  • 2013 Spirit Aerosystems, Meritrust Credit Union, South Central Education Service Center
  • 2012 Cessna Aircraft Company, IMA of Kansas, ICM
  • 2011 Cessna Aircraft Company, IMA of Kansas, Meritrust Credit Union
  • 2010 Bombardier Learjet, City of Derby, Start Thinking
  • 2009 Westar Energy, Greteman Group, Royal Caribbean Cruises
  • 2008 NORDAM, High Touch, Breakthrough Club of Sedgwick County
  • 2007 Frontier Oil Refining Company, Preferred Health Systems, Spirit
  • 2006 Spirit
  • 2005 Love Box Company