Meet Our Next Presenter: Susan Elizabeth Peters, PhD
"Work is a major contributor to our health and wellbeing.”
Join us as we welcome Susan Elizabeth Peters, PhD, Associate Director of the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being and Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, for our upcoming Educational Intensive, From Surveys to Strategy: Making Data Work.
This session will explore how organizations can use evidence-based surveys and wellbeing data to better understand how work impacts people’s lives, both on and off the job. Participants will learn how to choose the right tools, make sense of results, and use data to guide practical decisions that support healthier, more effective workplaces.
Turning Data Into Action
Many organizations collect employee survey data, but fewer know how to translate that information into meaningful strategy. Dr. Peters’ work helps bridge that gap by showing how measurement can reveal the ways workplace policies, leadership practices, and working conditions shape worker health, safety, and performance.
Her research emphasizes that workplace wellbeing is not only about individual behaviors. It is also shaped by systems, work design, and organizational context. That perspective is central to the Thriving Workers, Thriving Workplaces initiative, which identifies workplace policies and organizational strategies that support healthier, more resilient workforces.
Measuring What Matters
Dr. Peters is the developer of the Thriving from Work framework and questionnaire, which helps organizations better understand how work contributes to employee wellbeing. The framework examines work related wellbeing across multiple dimensions and is designed to help employers move beyond surface level metrics toward data that can guide practical improvement.
In this Educational Intensive, participants will explore how to use surveys and wellbeing data more thoughtfully. Rather than collecting data for its own sake, the session will focus on how organizations can interpret findings, identify priorities, and connect measurement to action.
With over 20 years of experience in occupational health and employee wellbeing, Dr. Peters brings a systems level, real world perspective to helping organizations build healthier, more resilient workplaces. Trained as an occupational therapist, she combines research expertise with practical insight into how work is designed, led, and experienced.
Don’t miss From Surveys to Strategy: Making Data Work, part of our Educational Intensives series.
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