The Health Diaries

Even Arianna Huffington Is Trying to Spend Less Time on Her Phone

‘Well-being isn’t a luxury or a soft add-on. It’s a competitive advantage.’

There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that keep notable people living well.

Perhaps no single person is as evocative of the corporate embrace of wellness culture as Arianna Huffington. The founder and CEO of Thrive Global is on a mission to end stress and burnout and, of course, convince people to sleep more.

Part of her company’s strategy is helping businesses incorporate health and well-being as key principles. Thrive has launched in India and Greece and has led trainings on five continents so far, with further expansion plans for 2019. The key to changing a work environment, Huffington argues, is total commitment on all levels. “Even the best well-being plans won’t be maximized if there’s not buy-in from senior management to change the incentive structure,” she tells Medium. “ For company culture to truly change and become more resilient, the culture shift needs to be modeled at the top.”

Huffington shares her own health and wellness routines with Medium, including how she actually gets eight hours of sleep a night.