Matt Vaughan moved from strength and conditioning coaching into workplace health and wellbeing. He built his programme around the challenge every wellbeing coach hears from a business: prove to me that it works.
Matt runs MV Corporate Health and has spent more than ten years delivering wellbeing programmes inside organisations. His online programme starts with a short confidential health quiz across four mental health pillars and four physical health pillars. Each person gets a snapshot of where they're strong and where the work is, then a weekly email with a video to follow. We talk about moving wellbeing off the ambulance at the bottom of the hill and what he'd say to anyone starting a business.
What we cover in this episode
- What high-performance sport teaches about wellbeing at work
- Why wellbeing programmes need to be personal
- Why they need data too
- A confidential health quiz across eight pillars
- Showing a business where its wellbeing spend is going
- Technology and the next generation of workers
- Getting ahead of problems before they need counselling
- Advice for anyone going out on their own
Episode chapters
- 0:00 Meet Matt Vaughan
- 1:01 From strength and conditioning to corporate wellbeing
- 4:04 Growing up in sport
- 10:10 Lessons from high-performance coaches
- 13:15 How the programme works
- 15:19 The health quiz and eight pillars
- 18:23 Proving wellbeing spend works
- 24:30 Confidentiality
- 28:37 Technology and generational change
- 32:41 The ambulance at the bottom of the hill
- 36:47 Advice for starting a business
- 41:58 Wrap up
Connect with Matt Vaughan
MV Corporate Health. Find Matt on LinkedIn.
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About the host
Matt Jones is the founder of Advanced Safety and a HASANZ-registered health and safety consultant. He's a Professional Member of NZISM, holds a Graduate Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health and founded the New Zealand Health and Safety Professionals community. His book is Raise the Standard: Why Good Organisations Go Blind and How Leaders Restore Visibility.
Guests share their own views and experience. This page is general information, not legal advice. Latest update: 13 November 2026
