ORGANIZATIONAL WELLBEING & PERFORMANCE
The principle
The problem you are already paying for
Most of your people are still functioning.That is what makes it hard to see.
They are meeting deadlines, showing up and getting the work done. But underneath, a quieter cost may be accumulating: emotional fatigue, fragmented focus and a slow drift into going through the motions.
Languishing
Not illness, but not wellbeing either.
People can be languishing while still hitting their targets. The danger is that the decline can remain largely invisible until people disengage, break or leave.
By the time the signs become obvious,the cost is already higher.
Burnout, disengagement and resignation are easier to see. The quieter decline that can come before them is not.
The wellbeing continuum
Wellbeing is more than feeling good. It is part of what sustains performance.
Flourishing sits at the other end of that scale. These four capacities are where it shows up at work.
Focus
Clearer attention and better day-to-day thinking.
Resilience
Greater capacity to handle pressure and recover well.
Intentional communication
More thoughtful, productive conversations at work.
Engagement and ownership
Stronger connection, ownership and initiative.
In a large US national sample, flourishing adults reported the fewest missed workdays and the highest resilience (Keyes, 2002; 2005).
The bottom line
The value is not only feeling better.
It is functioning better, for longer.
Our programmes
Four ways to support your people, at different depths.
The four programmes meet the same underlying condition at four different depths, from a single session that opens the conversation to a twelve-session journey.
Start anywhere. Grow as the value proves itself.
Telos Spark
A low-commitment first step
One session, 60 to 90 minutes
A low-risk, visible signal that wellbeing is taken seriously. It opens a difficult topic without asking anyone to expose themselves, and sends every attendee away with one practical habit to apply that week.
Telos Foundations
Wellbeing workshop
Half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours)
A team that can tell coping apart from functioning well, with practical tools to manage pressure and sustain energy, before quiet erosion turns into disengagement.
Discovering Purpose
Reconnect work with meaning
Two full days
Employees who reconnect with why their work matters and align their daily actions to it, driving deeper engagement, retention and self-directed commitment. Delivered through Prof. Michael Steger's VEST framework by a certified facilitator.
Our flagshipTelos Journey
Sustaining performance through wellbeing
12 group sessions of 2.5 hours, plus individual coaching before and after, over 3 to 6 months
People who can say what their work is for. Setbacks absorbed faster, stronger team communication, and a documented shift in validated wellbeing scores, measured at the start and the end.
Our flagship programme
Telos Journey
A journey, not a course.
A blend of training and group coaching. Each session teaches something grounded in evidence, then the group works with it through coaching. The learning matters. The reflection is where the change happens.
- 12 sessions of 2.5 hoursWeekly or fortnightly, over 3 to 6 months.
- One-to-one coachingBefore the programme and again at the end.
- A workbook they keepTheirs to write in, keep and return to.
- Measured before and afterFour validated wellbeing scales.
The shape of the journey
- Sessions 1 to 3Build the baseOrient, and build the positive emotions that fuel the deeper work.
- Sessions 4 to 7The inner workKnow your best, surface your patterns, steer your thinking, clarify what matters.
- Sessions 8 to 9Open the heartKindness inward through self-compassion, then outward to relationships.
- Sessions 10 to 11Meaning and motionConnect to something larger, then turn it into aligned goals.
- Session 12Celebrate and closeReveal the shift, commit to what comes next, and celebrate.
Our approach
The principles under every programme.
Most people at work are not unwell. They are quietly running down, and that can be changed before it becomes a crisis.
Upstream, not repair.
The same work brings relief to people who are languishing now, and protects those who are doing well before pressure wears them down.
Honest, not cheerful.
Real pressure is met with honesty. No toxic positivity, no forced smiles.
Practised, not described.
Tools are practised in the room. Nothing essential is left to homework.
Confidential, not reported.
What people say and score stays theirs. Your organisation receives themes and aggregated results only.
Evidence, not hype.
Every claim is grounded in published research, and contested ideas are left out.
Why Telos Wellbeing
Understanding workplace pressure from the inside.
Founder, programme creator and lead facilitator.
Rawan Malhas spent twenty-two years in software, most recently as Acting Software Director. She knows what sustained delivery pressure does to a team, because she has carried it.
She also spent years functioning well on paper while running on empty underneath, with no name for what was wrong. The name, when she found it, was languishing, and behind it was a substantial body of research. She went and qualified in that research properly.
Telos is the programme I needed and could not find.
Rawan Malhas
- MBA
- ICF Associate Certified Coach
- Diploma in Positive Psychology, Langley Group
- Certified Meaning & Purpose (VEST) Facilitator
- Certified Group Coach
- Dale Carnegie Communication Training
- 4.2/5Average usefulness rating from 16 employees at a Royal Film Commission workshop, January 2026.
- +21Point average rise in flourishing scores, measured before and after across two completed cohorts.
- 2Cohorts of the ten-session predecessor programme delivered end to end, before Telos Journey extended it to twelve.
The flourishing figure is a before-and-after observation from the predecessor programme, not a controlled study.
For the first time in almost 20 years, I was able to connect the dots and make sense of my life.
Participant, predecessor programme
I expressed things that were in my head I'd never put into words before, and I saw the effect.
Participant, predecessor programme
Let's talk
Find your starting point in a conversation.
A free 30-minute conversation, with no obligation.
Tell me what you are seeing in your organisation and the pressures your people are carrying.
We look at what is happening, which programme may fit, or whether Telos is the right fit at all.
You leave with a recommendation, whether or not you decide to go further.