Measuring how resilience develops, depletes, and rebuilds in today’s workforce.
A multi-year Canadian research initiative exploring the relationship between resilience, burnout, mental health, leadership effectiveness, workplace culture, wellbeing, and organizational performance.
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What if we have been wrong about resilience all this time?
The Workforce Resilience Study was created to explore whether burnout, mental health decline, disengagement, leadership strain, and workplace conflict may be connected to something deeper: resilience depletion.
A longitudinal study of resilience in the Canadian workforce.
This study is being conducted through collaboration with university research partners, human resources association partners, Canadian employers, and Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc.
The goal is to examine how resilience is built, how it becomes depleted, and what strategies best support resilience development across Canadian workplaces.
Our central research question
How can individuals and organizations intentionally build resilience capacity across nine dimensions so burnout, conflict, disengagement, and mental health decline are addressed before they become costly workplace outcomes?
This is not a survey you complete and never hear about again.
Most studies collect information. Participants answer questions, submit their responses, and walk away without knowing how the information is used or how it helps them.
This study is different. Participants actively build resilience while contributing to research.
Participants receive more than a score. They receive insight.
Every participant receives access to the WIS®RQ Resilience Experience, an immersive exploration of wellbeing across nine dimensions that translates wellness activities into a Resilience Index™ and practical plan of action.
Explore
Reflect on wellbeing across nine dimensions and begin identifying what may be strengthening or depleting resilience.
Translate
Turn wellness activities and patterns into a measurable Resilience Index™ that provides meaningful personal insight.
Build
Use monthly resilience-building strategies to strengthen the dimensions that matter most for your life and work.
For Canadian workforce participants
You may be eligible if you work in Canada and want to better understand and strengthen your own resilience while contributing to meaningful workforce research.
- Work in Canada full-time or part-time
- Live in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, or another participating province
- Want to learn more about your own resilience
- Are willing to participate in ongoing resilience-building activities
For Canadian employers and HR partners
Organizations can support awareness of the study and give employees the opportunity to voluntarily participate in resilience-building research.
- Support employee resilience development
- Contribute to Canadian workforce research
- Access preliminary study findings
- Learn emerging resilience trends
Participation must be informed, voluntary, and free from coercion.
Employees cannot be required, pressured, or manipulated into participating. Organizations may share information about the study and invite employees to learn more, but each participant must choose freely whether to apply.
Information Sessions
Interested employees, leaders, HR professionals, and employers can attend an information session to learn about the study purpose, eligibility, time commitment, participant benefits, and organizational partnership options.
Join the research initiative exploring how resilience is built in today’s workforce.
Whether you are an employee, leader, organization, researcher, or HR professional, your participation can help expand our understanding of how resilience develops, depletes, and rebuilds over time.