In a career spanning over 25 years, Kaur Lass has distinguished herself as a leading figure in spatial planning, managing over 450 diverse spatial plans. As the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Wellness Orbit, Kaur has channeled his extensive experience into pioneering a new approach to mental wellness.
Kaur’s journey began in spatial planning, where he frequently managed public meetings and navigated various external pressures. Recognizing that traditional education does not address the art of maintaining mental calm in challenging situations, he sought innovative solutions to enhance self-leadership. This quest led him to develop Wellness Orbit—a digital mental wellness gym designed to make intrapersonal skills accessible and practical for everyone.
His background in spatial planning, combined with Kaur’s partnership with a psychiatrist, enabled Kaur to integrate systemic and digital approaches into Wellness Orbit. This initiative reflects his belief in the importance of proactive mental wellness and self-leadership. Wellness Orbit provides a modern, user-friendly platform for mental fitness, offering tools and strategies for maintaining a balanced and resilient mind.
Kaur’s dedication to mental wellness is not just a professional endeavor but a personal passion. By sharing his insights and practical intrapersonal skills, Kaur helps others navigate their own mental wellness journeys, demonstrating that effective self-leadership can transform both personal and professional lives.
Below are highlights of the interview:
Tell us about Wellness Orbit and its mission.
Wellness Orbit is a B2B-focused digital mental wellness gym. It allows employees in any organization to train their minds and is based on a new and systematic proactive mental wellness approach. For the people it feels like going to the gym, only instead of training your physical body, you train your mind by discovering practical intrapersonal skills. This is combined with self-evaluations and a one-on-one learning feel, making it a relaxing experience accessible 24/7.
Addressing mental wellness proactively, before mental health issues develop into mental health problems, is a novel approach. A systematic proactive approach to mental wellness hasn’t existed. It means we, with our team, lead a mental wellness revolution at work. As a result, employers now can provide learning opportunities through Wellness Orbit mental wellness trainings for their staff, allowing them to reduce stress and nip burnout in the bud.
“Maintaining a fit mind is essential, whether you work with your hands or your head.”
What strategies do you employ to ensure that Wellness Orbit remains competitive in the market?
That’s a challenging question because our biggest hurdle has been visibility. Currently, few people actively seek out mind health or mental wellness training. We’ve had to craft the right terminology, refine our approach, and create demand to make it appealing. So we aim to speak at different events, podcasts, etc where HR or training managers or business leaders hang around. We also provide high value blogposts and publish articles on the topic.
How do you foster a culture of innovation and adaptability within your organization, considering the rapidly changing landscape of the business industry?
To foster a culture of innovation and adaptability, workplaces need to prioritize access to creativity and intuition. Access to creativity and intuition are learnable intrapersonal skills. Understanding awareness is the base of our intrapersonal skills.
We need to improve our access to inner silence which, in essence, is our consciousness. When we start using consciousness in an active form as directed awareness and embrace trial and error, creativity really can thrive. This demands becoming more open-minded and encouraging learning from failure. However, while doing it we need to keep our focus and keep our minds well. Without subconscious inner automatic reactivity, people become more aware and can make conscious decisions, this allows them to support each other and take more responsibility.
“Responsibility is your conscious ability to respond adequately in any situation. This is what we need in all modern workplaces.”
This requires cultivating open-mindedness and embracing learning from failure. However, it’s crucial to maintain your focus on solutions and secure the mental wellness of your staff throughout the process. Only by reducing automatic reactivity in our minds, we can create an external environment where people can respond consciously and genuinely support one another.
How do you prioritize customer satisfaction and ensure that the company provides exceptional service to its clients?
Our customers are businesses and we monitor their satisfaction, it is the sum of their employee satisfaction. In our case, every person has a private training account as we need to secure mental wellness data. All individual mental wellness gym users begin and conclude their mental wellness journey with self-evaluation. This process helps them clearly understand their mental wellness situation and track their self-development progress. The true measure of success lies in personal growth and a calmer mind, which directly enhances trainee satisfaction. As individuals improve their mental well-being and behavior, employers benefit from higher employee engagement and a stronger sense of personal responsibility.
Today only around 20% of employees are engaged at work according to Gallup, you just can be engaged when you struggle inside. When up to 90% of employees are stressed and 60% nearing burnout, you can’t improve this figure.
“Reducing stress is the key to improving mental wellness and employee engagement simultaneously.”
What steps do you take to attract and retain top talent in the industry, and how do you encourage professional growth and development within your organization?
As a bootstrapped company, we seek individuals passionate about mental wellness and self-development. We provide them with top self-development tools and personal guidance. Right now, what truly matters is lining up with a compelling mission and genuine passion.
As Co-Founder, Managing Director of Wellness Orbit, what is your overall vision for the company’s future and how do you plan to achieve it?
My vision is a global mental wellness revolution aiming to make training our minds as normal as training our physical bodies. It requires extensive explanation because we need a paradigm shift: mental wellness must be addressed proactively.
Our plan is to grow one customer at a time and make a change one person at a time. All change is always personal as are all skills. We hope that as more and more people consider mind health training normal and desirable, the word starts to spread faster.
What advice would you give to aspiring leaders or individuals?
As a leader (regardless of what industry you are in) you depend on people. Without thriving people who experience good mental wellness, you have no business. Yes, in the short run, you can burn out people, but they leave and mostly don’t return.
Training professional skills always take time and effort. Practical intrapersonal skills improve self-leadership and thus allow a person to use those professional skills to the fullest.
“It is wise to remember, that a fit mind always keeps a fit body.”
Health is holistic, but it always starts with the right mindset. If training your body alone is enough, we wouldn’t see athletes experiencing stress, burnout or mental health issues. But they do. Doing world-class is hard and only a healthy mind can keep it up in a personally sustainable way.
You don’t train your body when you become ill. Training is not a reactive cure, training is about prevention and being healthy. This is also true in the case of mental wellness, you need to train your mind while you are well. Especially, as our schools lack mental wellness lessons and intrapersonal education. So you as a business leader need to provide your staff access to mind health training as alternatively 9 out of 10 employees are stressed and almost 30% of people end up with mental health problems. We need a shift and we need it now as people need to become more creative, intuitive, responsible and innovative. AI thinks faster than us, we need to become smarter and more personally sustainable as humans to compete.
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