FINDING YOUR WHEN
RANDY MILLER IS ON A MISSION TO TRANSFORM LIVES BY KAYLA GOLDBERG
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andy Miller, the founder of WHEN, is a man on a mission to meaningfully transform people’s lives. WHEN is a corporate and individual wellness program where the goal is to create a change in the current GallupHeathways Well-Being statistics. According to the Gallup poll, 66% of American adults are unhappy with their lives, and 89% of employees worldwide are disconnected from their workplace. WHEN is striving to change this through the use of personal, one-on-one online advising. The advising takes place between a trained advisor and an individual ready to change their mindset and accept the “WHEN way of life”—a mindset that focuses on productivity, happiness, and making your life the best, most enjoyable version possible.
A LOT OF UNHAPPY PEOPLE As a result of the disturbingly high numbers of social dissatisfaction, unhappiness and unproductively reported in the modern workplace, there is no shortage of wellness programs currently being offered. However, the amount of money being poured into wellness programs, as well as Gallup’s disappointing statistics, didn’t make sense to Miller. It bothered him that so many adults were unproductive and unhappy, he explains. And, as a businessman, it bothered him that it was so clear that something about these wellness
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programs needed to change if the Gallup statistics were ever going to improve. And so, after 15 years spent advising college students, he decided to try to help adults instead.
CHANGING MINDSETS For Miller, the key to accomplishing his goal was to find a way to change unhappy adults’ mindsets from “if” to “when.” In fact, the original name of the company was IforWhen, but he soon realized that he and his customers were “when” people, not “if” people. Still, WHEN needed more than just a clever name to help change the world. It needed people who cared about it and a strategy that would actually work.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT According to Miller, what makes WHEN unique from other wellness programs is that it is “one of the only companies that actually delivers all three disciplines—career, health and being. We’re not just another wellness company or another coaching company. We fit into the entire lifestyle of the individual.” Unlike WHEN, many wellness programs focus on one particular aspect of someone’s life, such as career or health. But WHEN sees all three of these disciplines as the three pillars of life, and success in each is the goal of a happy, productive individual. WHEN helps individuals to reach this goal by offering advising greenlivingaz.com