About Simply Strong
Who we are
Simply Strong is redefining the way companies support employee growth and wellbeing. Our program is a ready-to-launch virtual solution easy for in-office and remote workers to use anytime, anywhere. A unique element of the program is that co-workers encourage each other to complete fun challenges for emotional and physical wellbeing.
What we do
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Provide companies and employees with simple, everyday experiences to strengthen emotional and physical wellbeing.
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Employees encourage each other to join simple challenges that nourish mind and body.
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The user-friendly app allows employees to track and receive rewards for their individual achievements.
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With 15-minute challenges in each of The Wellbeing Core Five areas, employees set their own monthly growth and development goals.
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Connect to grow stronger together by sharing photos and progress on our social media platforms. Build relationships within your organization and other companies in our Simply Strong community.
Our story
Simply Strong was created to strengthen emotional and physical wellbeing in five core areas (see circle image). There’s a proven link between wellbeing and performance. By strengthening employee wellbeing as a team, we help organizations increase performance, team connection and retention.
The program focuses on growth and development for every employee, every month through simple, healthy practices.
Advanced Performance, Inc. and Hermes Sports and Events partnered to design one of the first virtual corporate challenge programs for mind and body whole-health. Together, our specialties were ideal for developing a research-based healthy concept that is essential for today’s hybrid, remote work model.
Hermes Sports and Events, founded in 1981, built a reputation as Northeast Ohio's premier sport & event management company. Hermes produces and manages programs on behalf of hundreds of local and national businesses and organizations. Hermes also manages Corporate Challenge events in Cleveland and Akron as well as numerous local Sport & Social leagues and tournaments.
Sunny K. Lurie
Meet our founder
What makes individuals feel better and perform better? What strengthens employee health and happiness? What key piece is missing from our workplaces today? That was Sunny Lurie, PhD’s, vision when she started Simply Strong. Her doctoral research focuses on how employee learning takes place during major organizational change.
With this research, a decade leading management training at Key Bank, over 10 years consulting organizations in performance improvement in her firm, Advanced Performance, Inc. and a passion for employee growth, Sunny is committed to making a difference in the workplace. She is using her knowledge combined with science from positive psychology and the National Wellness Institute to address the missing piece—building up the “whole” person, body and mind.
She created Simply Strong Teams, a company whose mission is to provide organizations a simple solution to employee emotional and physical wellbeing, designed to fuel employees and foster strong work environments.
Sunny Lurie is the author of Jolt Your Career From Here to There. She earned her bachelor’s degree from University of Texas, masters in Postsecondary Education from Cleveland State University and PhD. in Human and Organizational Systems from the Fielding Institute. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio and loves spending time outdoors with her husband and two daughters going on nature walks, skiing, biking and boating.