WHY SOMA LOTUS
Because Leadership and Organizational Wellness Shouldn't Separate People From Organizational Performance
Leadership and organizational wellness have both a human and business impact. Turnover, absenteeism, burnout, communication breakdowns, leadership friction, and disengagement can affect both people and organizational resources.
Soma Lotus brings behavioral health expertise, leadership experience, research, and organizational strategy together to help organizations better understand what is happening beneath the surface—and invest in solutions designed around the actual need.
START WITH THE NEED
Your Organization Doesn't Need Another Solution Looking for a Problem.
Organizations can spend significant time and money on programs that address a topic without addressing the conditions creating the challenge.
Soma Lotus begins differently. We seek to understand what you're seeing, who is affected, what the available information tells us, and what has already been attempted before determining what type of support makes sense.
The goal isn't to sell more services. It's to make the services you invest in more intentional.
IDENTIFY
What is the organization noticing?
UNDERSTAND
What does the available research, organizational information, and stakeholder experience tell us?
DESIGN
What intervention fits the identified gap?
MEASURE & LEARN
What can we learn from the response and available outcomes?
12% vs. 3%
Intent to Leave
In BCG's global research, 12% of employees experiencing the lowest psychological safety said they were likely to leave within a year, compared with 3% among employees experiencing high psychological safety.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY + RETENTION
Source: Boston Consulting Group (2024)
$1,887
Per Employee, Per Year
The same research highlighted by APA estimated that sickness absence and reduced on-the-job productivity associated with lower psychosocial safety represented a combined annual cost of $1,887 per employee in the Australian study.
WORKPLACE CONDITIONS + COST
Source: American Psychological Association (2017)
What People Experience at Work Doesn't Stay With the People.
WORKPLACE CONDITIONS → EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE → WORKFORCE OUTCOMES → ORGANIZATIONAL COST
The business case for organizational well-being isn't separate from the human case. They're connected.
Soma Lotus helps organizations look beyond the visible problem to better understand the conditions contributing to it. Research, available organizational data, and stakeholder experience can then help guide where resources may have the greatest value.
RESEARCH SOURCES
Research findings reflect the populations and methods used in the cited studies and should not be interpreted as guaranteed outcomes, projected savings, or proof that a single workplace factor caused the reported results.
Psychological safety, employee mental health, and workplace conditions can influence whether people speak up, remain engaged, miss work, or consider leaving. Those human experiences can also carry measurable financial consequences for organizations.
THE HUMAN + BUSINESS IMPACT
43% MORE
Sick Days
Research highlighted by the American Psychological Association found that employees in workplaces with lower psychosocial safety took 43% more sick days per month than employees in healthier psychosocial environments.
WORKPLACE CONDITIONS + ABSENCE
Source: American Psychological Association (2017)
$47.6 BILLION
Annual Productivity Cost
Gallup research indicates that poor employee mental health costs U.S. employers an estimated $47.6 billion annually in unplanned absences and reduced productivity.
MENTAL HEALTH + PRODUCTIVITY
Source: Gallup (2022)
SEE THE PATTERN
Look across available information rather than treating each workforce concern as an isolated event.
Don't Just Collect Data. Use It to Ask Better Questions.
Turnover rates, absenteeism, engagement results, employee feedback, healthcare trends, and other organizational indicators can tell part of the story. The value comes from connecting those indicators to what people are experiencing and how work is actually happening.
Better information can lead to better-targeted investment.
ASK WHY
DATA WITH A PURPOSE
Explore the leadership, workplace, relational, and systemic conditions that may be contributing to the pattern.
TARGET THE RESPONSE
Use what is learned to determine where consulting, training, coaching, leadership development, or another intervention may provide value.
THE SOMA LOTUS DIFFERENCE
Where Leadership and Organizational Wellness Meet Organizational Strategy
Our frameworks and specialized capabilities may include Transformational Leadership, Leadership-as-Practice, psychological safety, organizational well-being, and Gallup CliftonStrengths.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXPERTISE
A deeper understanding of human behavior, stress, relationships, trauma, communication, and the conditions influencing how people function.
LEADERSHIP & SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE
Organizational leadership and wellness solutions informed by firsthand experience leading people, programs, operations, and organizational change.
RESEARCH + DATA
Research informs the work while organizational data and stakeholder experience help determine where attention may be most useful.
CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS
Training, consulting, coaching, and development are shaped around the identified need rather than forcing every organization into the same solution.
Based in Greater Cleveland. Built to Support Organizations Beyond It.
ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT WITHOUT THE ZIP CODE LIMIT
Soma Lotus is rooted in Greater Cleveland, but our organizational work is not defined by geographic boundaries.
Virtual consulting, coaching, training, and organizational development create opportunities to partner beyond Northeast Ohio. In-person engagements may also be considered based on the scope, location, and needs of the organization.
VIRTUAL ENGAGEMENTS
Organizational support designed for distributed teams and organizations beyond the local market.
IN-PERSON ENGAGEMENTS
On-site opportunities may be considered based on engagement scope and location.
Wherever your organization is located, let's explore how Soma Lotus can support your goals.
INVEST MORE INTENTIONALLY
The Most Expensive Intervention May Be the One That Never Addressed the Problem.
Soma Lotus helps organizations move from reacting to workforce challenges toward understanding what is driving them and selecting support with greater intention.
The aim is straightforward: support people well while helping organizations make smarter use of the resources they invest in their workforce.