I AM A CHAMPION
You are the person who makes well-being work inside your organisation.
The WCN gives Champions the framework to turn well-being intention into a system that makes impact.
The Champion role is the governing function in the WCN’s three-tier model. You sit between the Leaders who set the direction and the Peer Supporters who deliver front-line support. Your job is to coordinate, design, and govern the well-being system that connects them – ensuring it is safe, consistent, and sustainable over time.
That means aligning roles and responsibilities, monitoring whether the system is actually working, and building the kind of documented, auditable governance that holds up when someone asks for evidence.
Most organisations appoint Champions without giving them a framework to work within. The WCN changes that.
What Champions Actually Do
Most well-being programmes ask leaders to attend a workshop and send a memo. That is not what this is.
Your role in the WCN is the enabling function. You do not run the programme – your Champions do that. You do not deliver peer support – your Peer Supporters do that. What you do is create the conditions that make everything else possible: allocating time and resources, modelling the behaviours you want to see, and holding the organisation accountable to what it has committed to.
That is a specific job. The WCN gives you specific tools for it.
What the WCN Offers Champions
iWorkHealth and PRISM
Before you can lead on well-being, you need to understand what is actually happening in your organisation. iWorkHealth is a free, government-developed assessment tool that identifies the specific stressors affecting your workforce across nine dimensions – from job demands and management support to organisational culture and workplace harassment. PRISM (Psychosocial Risk & Intervention Strategy Model) is a seven-dimension diagnostic aligned to ISO 45003, the international standard for psychological health and safety at work.
Culture Activation
Sustainable well-being is a culture question, not a training question. WCN’s Culture Activation programming works with leadership teams to identify the specific behavioural and structural changes needed to shift workplace norms – using the Organisational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) and evidence-based nudge design.
This is not a keynote. It is a structured process that produces measurable outcomes.
Events and Peer Exchange
WCN’s engagement events bring together leaders, practitioners, and national partners for substantive dialogue on workplace well-being. Past events have featured senior leaders from organisations including Singtel, Deutsche Bank, Airbus Asia Pacific, and C&W Services, alongside government representatives from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), and the Workplace Safety and Health Council (WSHC). Leaders participate as keynote speakers, panelists, and co-creators of national practice – not just attendees.
The Champion's Progression Path
Well-being is not a cost centre. Psychosocial risk is a regulatory and reputational exposure that is growing – not shrinking. Singapore’s Tripartite Advisory on Mental Health and Well-being sets clear expectations for employers. ISO 45003 alignment is increasingly relevant for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. And the evidence on the relationship between psychological safety and performance, retention, and absenteeism is settled.
The WCN gives you a defensible, evidence-based approach to all of this – at a fraction of the cost of building it in-house.
Your Capability Pathway
Becoming a Certified Well-being First Responder
The Well-being First Responder (WFR) programme is the WCN’s flagship training pathway, giving employees a nationally recognised credential in workplace peer support.
The programme is structured around roles. Everyone starts with the same Foundation: self-care for sustainable well-being, foundational Psychological First Aid (PFA), and psychological safety at work. From there, each role follows a track tailored to their specific function.
Your track: Certified WFR (Champion)
The Champion track adds five mandatory modules to the Foundation: Mind-Body Practices for Self Regulation, Intermediate PFA covering complex reactions and suicide awareness, Advanced PFA covering empathetic supportive conversations, and Supportive Conversations for Leaders.
You then choose one elective from options including Emotional Regulation and Mental Agility at Work, Return to Work Support after Mental Illness, Inclusive Leadership for Psychological Safety at Work, and Designing Healthy Digital and AI-enabled Workflows, plus one Mental Health Literacy elective.
The Champion track sits between the Peer Supporter and Leader tracks. It builds enough hands-on support capability to understand what your Peer Supporters are doing and enough systemic knowledge to govern the programme with confidence.