Reported Median Company ROI
Among organizations able to quantify financial return, median reported return was seven times the coaching investment.
Source — ICF/PwC Global Coaching Client Study
WorkWell Amman 2027
Designing
Healthy Work
Where Wellbeing Meets Performance.
People · Leadership · Systems · Performance.
Convened by The Jordan Chapter of ICF (the International Coaching Federation) & Thrive Thru Coaching LLC
Saturday 30 January 2027
Amman, Jordan · Venue TBC
Followed by the WorkWell Dinner
PeopleLeadershipSystemsPerformanceWork DesignAI & Human SustainabilityManager CapabilityPsychological SafetyPeopleLeadershipSystemsPerformanceWork DesignAI & Human SustainabilityManager CapabilityPsychological Safety
Why WorkWell Amman
From Wellness Programs to Well Organizations
Workplace wellbeing is not simply determined by the programs and benefits organizations provide. It is shaped by how work is designed, how people are managed, how leaders behave, how technology is introduced, and the systems surrounding them.
01
People
The individuals whose daily experience of work shapes their wellbeing and their contribution.
02
Leadership
The everyday behaviour of managers that determines how work actually feels.
03
Systems
The structures, processes and technologies that shape what work demands of people.
04
Performance
The sustainable outcomes that healthy work makes possible for people and for organizations.
Wellbeing is not simply something we add to work. It is something we design into work.
How do we design organizations where people and performance can thrive?
A Contributing Discipline
Professional Coaching in Healthy Work
Professional coaching contributes a practical lens on leadership behaviour, manager capability, reflective practice and sustainable change. Evidence connects coaching with leadership and workplace outcomes while supporting healthier, more sustainable ways of working.
Participants Across Randomized Studies
A meta-analysis of 39 randomized controlled coaching samples found a moderate positive effect across leadership and workplace outcomes.
Source — de Haan & Nilsson, 2023
Leader Wellbeing
A randomized 10-week executive-coaching study found a medium-to-large reduction in emotional exhaustion among coached leaders.
Source — Brooks et al., 2023 · 92 leaders
Coaching × Wellbeing
HR, learning and talent professionals agreed that coaching helps employees understand and implement organizational wellbeing initiatives.
Source — ICF + Human Capital Institute · Defining New Coaching Cultures — Survey of 470 HR, L&D and talent-management professionals
Professional coaching is one contributing discipline within the wider system of healthy work.
National Context
Why Jordan
Global trends matter, but the experience of work is shaped by local economic, social, and cultural realities. WorkWell creates a space to explore these questions within the context of Jordanian workplaces.
17%
of employees in Jordan are engaged at work
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026. Latest data are a three-year rolling average ending 2025. MENA: 14%; global: 20%.
50%
of employees in Jordan experienced stress a lot of the previous day
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026
JD 198.7M
estimated annual productivity losses associated with mental health conditions in Jordan
WHO investment case
27%
AI adoption among Jordan's working-age population ranks third in the Arab world.
MoDEE / Microsoft AI Diffusion Report, 2025
Jordan’s Economic Modernization Vision measured overall quality-of-life satisfaction at around 40% in the national survey used to develop the Vision, with a target of 80% by 2033. The Vision includes an ambition for Jordan to become one of the best places to live and work.
Jordan Economic Modernisation Vision — Quality of Life
WorkWell Jordan Pulse 2027
Original cross-sector workplace research
Exploring workload, trust, psychological safety, flexibility, and belonging in Jordanian workplaces. Fieldwork ahead of WorkWell Amman 2027.
National statistics tell part of the story. WorkWell Jordan Pulse 2027 will explore how people actually experience work inside Jordanian organizations.
These realities make the design of work, leadership and organizational conditions increasingly important to Jordan’s talent and competitiveness.
What is WorkWell Amman 2027
WorkWell 2026 opened the conversation around workplace wellbeing. WorkWell 2027 moves it upstream, toward how work itself is designed, led and operated.
WorkWell is a one-day conference and continuing platform bringing together organizational leaders, managers, people and HR professionals, workplace health experts, organizational psychologists, technology leaders, academics, professional coaches and practitioners around one central question:
How do we design organizations where people and performance can thrive?
See
How are people experiencing work in Jordan?
Understand
What makes work healthier, or harder?
Lead
How do managers shape everyday work?
Design
What can organizations realistically change?
Commit
How do we turn insight into action?
The WorkWell 2027 Experience
Conference at a Glance
08:30 – 17:30 · Tentative programme · Saturday 30 January 2027
08:30 – 09:00
Registration & Coffee
09:00 – 09:15
Opening · Designing Healthy Work
09:15 – 09:45
WorkWell Jordan Pulse 2027
What are people working in Jordan telling us about workload, trust, psychological safety, flexibility and belonging?
09:45 – 10:25
The Work Is the Intervention
Why wellbeing cannot be separated from workload, job design, autonomy, role clarity, culture, and the systems through which work gets done.
10:25 – 11:00
When Work Becomes the Risk
Psychosocial risk, mental wellbeing, pressure, role ambiguity and recovery, and the organizational conditions that make work healthier or harder.
11:00 – 11:30
Break & Networking
11:30 – 12:00
Your Manager Is Part of Your Work Environment
How manager behavior shapes trust, psychological safety, communication, performance, and the everyday experience of work.
12:00 – 12:50
Manager Lab
Practical manager capability for real workplace situations: how to notice, ask, listen, support, refer, and redesign when people or teams are under pressure.
12:50 – 13:50
Lunch & Connection
13:50 – 14:35
WorkWell in Practice
What is changing in Jordanian workplaces? Practical organizational examples across culture, mental wellbeing, flexibility, communication, measurement, workplace design and performance.
14:35 – 15:45
Workplace Design Labs
Participants work on real workplace challenges and move from diagnosis to practical organizational action.
- › Lab 1 · Workload, Role Clarity & Recovery — How do we redesign pressure rather than simply ask employees to cope with it?
- › Lab 2 · Trust, Communication & Psychological Safety — What conditions enable people to speak, contribute and perform?
- › Lab 3 · AI, Flexibility & Future-Ready Work — How do we introduce technology while protecting capability, trust and sustainable performance?
15:45 – 16:10
Break & Networking
16:10 – 16:40
AI & Human Sustainability
How AI is changing jobs, skills, cognitive load, management, and work design; and how organizations can improve productivity without unnecessarily depleting people.
16:40 – 17:15
Human Sustainability Boardroom
Senior cross-sector dialogue: what needs to change in the way organizations in Jordan design, lead and measure work?
17:15 – 17:30
From Insight to Action
What is one thing you will take back to your workplace?
17:30
Conference Close
19:00
The WorkWell Dinner
Speakers, panelists, partners, and a limited number of VIP participants continue the conversation in a more informal setting.
Eligible participants can receive Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits and International Coaching Federation Continuing Coach Education (CCE) units.
Why Attend WorkWell
What you take back to your workplace
- 01
Learn across disciplines
Hear perspectives from business, human resources, organizational psychology, workplace health, technology and professional coaching.
- 02
Take the learning with you
Access approved speaker presentation materials where authorized, with CPD credits and ICF CCE units available to eligible participants.
- 03
Build relevant relationships
Connect with leaders, managers, people professionals and practitioners across sectors.
- 04
Continue beyond the conference
Approved speaker presentation materials may be shared where authorized, with selected WorkWell communications continuing after the event.
- 05
Understand your workplace differently
See the organizational conditions shaping wellbeing, leadership and sustainable performance.
Join the people shaping healthier work in Jordan.
Beyond the Conference
One Day. A Longer Conversation.
WorkWell 2027 is designed to create engagement before, during and after the conference. A one-day event gives you a day. WorkWell creates a longer conversation: before, during, and after the conference.
Before
WorkWell Jordan Pulse
Original workplace insight and pre-event conversation.
During
WorkWell Amman 2027
Evidence, leadership dialogue, cases and practical labs with eligible CPD credits and ICF CCE units.
Evening
The WorkWell Dinner
Speakers, panelists, partners and a limited number of VIP participants continue the conversation. Saturday evening · 30 January 2027.
After · 30 days
Continue the Conversation
Approved speaker presentation materials where authorized, selected conference highlights and continued WorkWell communication.
After · 90 days
Looking Back
Participants may be invited to share what they have begun applying since WorkWell.
WorkWell Amman 2026
The Conversation Began
221 people joined the first WorkWell conversation in 2026. In 2027, WorkWell builds on that foundation with a sharper organizational focus, original Jordanian workplace insight, and a stronger emphasis on leadership, work design, and sustainable performance.
221
Attendees
65+
Organizations represented
55%
Leaders, managers & decision-influencers
The Convener
Why The Jordan Chapter of ICF
The Jordan Chapter of ICF is Jordan’s professional home for coaching and the local chapter of the International Coaching Federation, the global body that sets professional standards for coaching, credentials coaches and advances coaching excellence worldwide.
Founded in 2016, The Jordan Chapter of ICF works to advance professional coaching in Jordan by supporting coaches, strengthening professional standards, creating continuous learning opportunities and building connections with organizations and communities. Its vision is to be Jordan’s trusted authority and go-to hub where coaching empowers individuals and organizations to grow, lead and thrive.
How do we create healthier, high-performing workplaces?
WorkWell extends that mission into the workplace. It brings together business, leadership, workplace health, organizational psychology, technology, human resources and professional coaching perspectives around the conditions that help people and organizations perform sustainably.
Professional coaching contributes a practical lens on leadership behaviour, manager capability, reflective practice and sustainable change, connecting individual development with the wider organizational conditions that shape how people experience work.
80+
Chapter Members
40+
Credentialed Coaches
400+
Events Delivered
50+
Partnerships & Collaborations
1,000+
Annual Participations
Online & face-to-face
Join WorkWell Amman 2027
Designing Healthy Work.
Where wellbeing meets performance.
Register your interest to receive the 2027 programme, speaker announcements and delegate details first. Organisations exploring partnership can request the partnership pack.