Play, fitness go hand in hand at Hasbro

A Healthy Thought:
“We continuously strive to leverage our culture to promote healthy lifestyles.”
Dolph Johnson
Executive vice president, chief human resources officer
A Healthy Thought: “We continuously strive to leverage our culture to promote healthy lifestyles.” Dolph Johnson Executive vice president, chief human resources officer

Taryn Plumb
Contributing Writer
Many of them had never done anything like it before, but yet there they were: More than 200 turquoise T-shirt-clad Hasbro Inc. employees, amassed at Slater Park in Pawtucket, participating in the company’s first-ever run/walk 5K.
Held last September, the friendly race was so successful that it’s now an annual tradition, with the next scheduled for Sept. 4.
Hasbro’s wellness team, comprised of more than 40 members, three site leaders and two “team champions,” also gets workers active by organizing on-site Zumba classes, a weekly walking/running club, and special programming, such as chair massage. Employees also have access to on-site fitness centers and personal trainers, and can participate in ShapeUp RI and blood drives.
This May, the team also got innovative by crafting a series of events modeled after the best-selling book “Wellbeing,” by Tom Rath, which identifies “five essential elements” to happiness and health: career, social, financial, physical and community.
Spanning all of Hasbro’s Rhode Island offices, the celebration included fitness challenges, demonstrations on self-defense, laughter yoga, and foam rolling, vendors representing the five elements, and a keynote speech by Heather Abbott, who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing.
“As a branded-play company, we continuously strive to leverage our culture to promote healthy lifestyles for employees through innovative programming focused on overall well-being,” said Dolph Johnson, executive vice president and chief human resources officer.

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