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When your people thrive, your organization performs.
Rooted n' Rising partners with healthcare, corporate, and public sector organizations to design workplace wellness and leadership strategies that are evidence-based, clinically grounded, and built to last. We bridge the gap between people care and organizational performance because sustainable high performance starts with people who are structurally supported to succeed.
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Who we are
Rooted n' Rising was founded by Sunita Rao, a Registered Occupational Therapist, Coach, and Health and Wellbeing Leader with over 30 years of executive leadership in occupational health, wellness, disability management, and leadership coaching.
What sets this practice apart is the dual lens Sunita brings to every engagement. Clinical expertise developed over three decades of frontline and leadership practice. And executive experience navigating the organizational realities, the pressures, the constraints, the people dynamics, that determine whether a wellness or leadership strategy actually gets implemented or quietly disappears.
We have worked with mid-size to large organizations, unionized and multi-site, across healthcare, corporate, and public sectors. Our approach is evidence-based, equity-informed, collaborative, and designed to produce results that are measurable, sustainable, and aligned with your strategic goals.
What We Do
We work across six interconnected areas:
Wellness Strategy & Program Design
Data-driven wellness initiatives that address the full spectrum of employee wellbeing, physical, mental, social, and financial. We design programs that are scalable, sustainable, and grounded in what the evidence actually shows works.
Occupational Health and Safety
Best-practice alignment to reduce organizational risk, prevent workplace injury, and build cultures of psychological safety. We help organizations move beyond compliance toward genuine care.
Disability and Abilities Management
Streamlined accommodation processes, claims management, and return-to-work programs that support employees effectively while protecting organizational capacity and reducing long-term costs.
Culture and Engagement
Wellbeing embedded into the fabric of your workplace culture, not as a standalone initiative, but as a core organizational value that shapes how people lead, collaborate, and perform.
Measurement
and Impact
Clear reporting frameworks, ROI tracking, and continuous improvement processes that demonstrate the value of your wellness investment to leadership and stakeholders.
Success and Leadership Coaching
Targeted coaching support for leaders navigating high-demand roles, building the personal resilience, boundary competency, career clarity, and functional sustainability that long-term high performance requires. Delivered individually or in small groups, and typically funded through organizational development budgets.
Why Work With Us
Organizations choose Rooted n' Rising because we bring something most wellness consultants cannot. A combination of clinical rigor, leadership coaching expertise, and executive credibility that allows us to operate effectively at every level of an organization.
We understand what it takes to design a program that works clinically. We also understand what it takes to get that program resourced, approved, and implemented within the realities of a complex organization. And we understand what individual leaders need to sustain their own performance, their career clarity, their leadership identity, their personal capacity, without burning out in the process. That full-spectrum capability is what makes the difference between a wellness strategy that looks good on paper and one that actually changes something.
Our approach is collaborative, practical, and built around your specific organizational context. We do not deliver off-the-shelf solutions. We design with you, not for you.
Outcomes for Your Organization
Organizations that work with us see measurable results across four key areas:
Financial Performance
Lower WSIB premiums through reduced claims. Reduced STD and LTD insurance costs over time. Decreased absenteeism and presenteeism. A demonstrable return on wellness investment.
People Performance
Stronger employee engagement and retention. Higher psychological safety scores. Leaders and teams with the career clarity and personal capacity to sustain high performance over the long term.
Organizational alignment
Wellness and leadership strategies integrated with DEI commitments, safety obligations, and broader strategic goals. Programs that reinforce rather than compete with organizational priorities.
Cultural shift
A workplace where wellbeing is not a program people opt into. It is the environment people work within.
The strongest organizations never stop investing in their people. Let's talk about what that looks like for yours.
We work with a select number of organizational clients at any given time to ensure every engagement receives the depth of attention it deserves.
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