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The anticipated guidance from “the 23 executives who comprise the American Heart Association's CEO Roundtable” is coming soon, according to this Huffington Post piece by Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association. You may recall that their goals were outlined here last year.

In the meantime, Brown turned to William A. Blase Jr., AT&T's Senior Executive Vice President for Human Resources, who outlined successes the communications giant is having in its workplace wellness activities.

AT&T launched its Your Health Matters wellness program in 2011. Blase states: “As part of this effort, we issued our first Chairman's Challenge in 2012. The program invited employees to set measurable goals for getting healthier. About 15,000 people met the challenge to lose weight, stop smoking and engage in other healthy activities. This company-wide effort was so popular our business unit leaders and other employee groups launched their own Challenges.”

This year, AT&T grew the program.

Blase writes: “Building on that success, we launched Chairman's Challenge II this year. Participation jumped 67 percent to around 25,000 management and union-represented employees, contributing to the overall CEO Roundtable directive to ‘meaningfully engage more than 2 million employees with the goal of creating a healthier America.'”

According to Blase: “During the four months of this year's Challenge, employees logged almost 2 million miles — enough to go around the world 80 times — and lost an amazing 40,000 pounds.”

And AT&T's goal for wellness goes beyond just their company: “We'll continue to find ways to encourage our employees' wellbeing and help create a healthier America.”