Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Location: Orlando, FL
Contact: education@health401k.org for registration details
Welcome to Health401k®: Your Health Portfolio Starts Here
A Philosophical Introduction to Health as an Investment Strategy
Format: 90-minute invitation based workshop
Fields: Strategic Decision Making • Personal Development • Behavioral Science • Organizational Culture
Summary:
“Welcome to Health401k®” is a philosophical introduction to a different way of thinking about health. Rather than viewing health as a checklist of behaviors or a set of rules to follow, this workshop introduces health as a long term investment portfolio shaped by how individuals allocate their time, energy, attention, relationships, and resources.
Designed for a mixed professional audience, the workshop invites participants to step back from tactics and consider a broader question: what are you actually building with your health over time, and how do your everyday environments influence those outcomes?
Through examples drawn from different cultures, ages, professions, and geographic contexts, participants are introduced to the idea that many of the most powerful health investments do not look like traditional wellness behaviors. Instead, they emerge from meaning, belonging, curiosity, and alignment with personal values.
The Health401k® Lens:
Just as a financial portfolio grows through intentional allocation and diversification, Health401k® frames health as something that compounds when individuals make aligned investments across multiple dimensions of life.
The workshop explores how people often make health decisions without a clear investment strategy, and how reframing health through a portfolio lens can reduce friction, clarify priorities, and support more sustainable long term outcomes.
What Participants Will Explore:
• How health investments differ across cultures, seasons of life, and personal values
• Why context and environment shape behavior more powerfully than motivation alone
• How time, energy, attention, and relationships function as health currency
• Why many effective health investments are invisible or mislabeled
• How individual definitions of health influence decision making and consistency
People Change People™ as a Through Line:
Throughout the workshop, participants are introduced to a recurring insight that appears across stories and contexts: people rarely change in isolation. Human connection and relational exposure quietly shape what feels possible, normal, and sustainable over time.
This principle is introduced as an observation rather than a prescription, allowing participants to recognize its role within their own health portfolios without being asked to adopt a specific model or method.
Learning Orientation:
This workshop is intentionally reflective rather than prescriptive. It does not offer a program, protocol, or action plan. Instead, it provides a philosophical framework and light application examples that help participants think more clearly about their own health investments and the environments that support them.
Participants leave with a clearer lens for evaluating past decisions, current priorities, and future investments without pressure to optimize or perform.
The Core Reframe:
Health is not something you fix. It is something you build.
When individuals understand health as a long term investment shaped by context, meaning, and environment, better decisions tend to follow naturally.
Suggested Use Cases:
• Professional learning and reflection forums
• Leadership and personal development retreats
• Culture and engagement conversations
• Educational and community based gatherings
• Organizational initiatives exploring well being through a strategic lens