National Employee Wellness Month is an annual initiative that helps business leaders learn how companies have developed successful strategies around prevention and good health. It showcases how supportive social communities, such as the workplace, can help to improve employee health and productivity and lower healthcare costs, and how leveraging an individual’s social connections helps create and sustain a workplace culture of health. National Employee Wellness Month was created in 2009 by Virgin HealthMiles, and the 2011 initiative is sponsored by Virgin HealthMiles, the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, and the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. National Employee Wellness Month is held in June, which is an ideal month as it marks the mid-point of the year and is a meaningful milestone to reflect back on corporate and personal health goals.