Mission, Vision, and Educational Philosophy

Chapman Institute seeks to be America’s premier Workplace Wellness professional development provider.

Our Mission

Chapman Institute’s mission is to offer training services and products for professionals in the Workplace Wellness field that allow them to deliver world-class wellness and well-being programs and reach their own career goals. We do this by drawing on a wealth of practical experience and applicable research findings to help our students solve real-world challenges.  Our desire for Chapman Institute’s Workplace Wellness training resources and nationally recognized WellCert program is to help improve the health status, health care utilization and health care cost patterns for entire populations.

Our Vision

We aim to become the best known, most highly regarded and most often adopted, training, certification and problem solving resource for the Workplace Wellness field.

Our Educational Philosophy

Promoting professional skill development and establishing a best practice standard for the Workplace Wellness community.

Chapman Institute provides technical advice and best practice perspectives we’ve learned through trial and error and a careful look at the applicable research to professionals planning, designing, implementing, managing and evaluating Workplace Wellness and Well-being programs. Drawing from deep experience with more than a thousand employers over forty-five years Chapman Institute serves as the exclusive provider of the nationally recognized WellCert Program for individuals and groups.

Each of the 4 levels of professional certification under the WellCert Program builds on the previous level and helps standardize the key skills necessary for success as a Workplace Wellness professional.

Additional dimensions of our educational philosophy include extensive use of “show-discuss-apply” educational strategies, quizzes and testing, case studies, periodic opportunities for learner introspection and team-based learning experiences.

Our Core Values

Chapman Institute is grounded in providing practical, research-driven and experienced-based corporate wellness solutions to address some of the biggest health and wellness challenges. To do so, we are committed to providing resources that embody the following core values:

  • Current
  • Reliable
  • Analytically sound
  • Effective
  • Accommodating
  • Trustworthy
  • Comprehensive
  • “Best-Practice” oriented
  • Credible