Why consider a wellness program in your workplace?
Statistics tell us that the average cost of absenteeism to businesses is $2741 per employee, per annum (based on a 2013 survey).
More than 70% of businesses consider absenteeism to be extremely costly to their organisation. By helping your employees to make healthier choices on a daily basis, we can reduce the burden of absenteeism on your business.
An Australian research study found that healthier employees are almost three times more effective than less healthy employees.
Global research has shown that when employee health and wellness is managed, engagement levels of employees rises from 7% to 55%, while creativity and innovation rises from 20% to 72%. Employees regard wellness programs as a good reason to remain with their employer and programs benefit both workplace health and workplace culture.
According to studies, the average business will save $5.81 for every $1 invested in employee health and wellbeing.
What's Included in Every Program:
🔍 1. Discovery Call
We begin with a complimentary 15-minute discovery call to understand your organisation’s wellness goals, culture, and pain points.
🩺 2. Workplace Health Assessment
A deep dive into your team’s current wellness status. We’ll assess the most pressing nutrition and health topics relevant to your workplace — from energy crashes, mental health and stress eating to chronic condition support and healthy habits at work.
🛤 3. Roadmap to Health: Your Custom Wellness Plan
I develop a strategic, customised plan tailored to your organisation’s needs, including targeted topics, realistic timelines, and measurable outcomes. This isn’t one-size-fits-all — it’s built for your people.
🍎 4. Implementation of Healthy, Sustainable Solutions
Over 3 or 6 months, I deliver engaging wellness sessions including webinars, seminars, group coaching, 1:1 nutrition education, habit-building tools, and hands-on support that create real, lasting changes in employee well-being and workplace culture.
🔄 5. Review, Realign & Recommit
I evaluate progress, realign goals as needed, and empower your team to continue building on their success — because wellness doesn’t stop when the program ends.
Program Length Options:
🕒 3-Month Intensive
Perfect for teams ready for a strong start — focused, practical, and high-impact.
🕕 6-Month Transformation
Designed for lasting change — deeper habit integration, broader education, and more time to implement long-term wellness culture.
Testimonials
Hi Melissa,
We were delighted to have you join us at our Brisbane clinic relaunch event as our guest nutritionist. With your expertise in women’s hormones, gut health, and skin, you brought such valuable insights to our guests. You were warm, engaging, and incredibly knowledgeable, making complex topics easy to understand. We’re so grateful for your contribution to the night.
Warm Regards
Simply Laser Skin
Brisbane
We had the pleasure of having Melissa Cook deliver an outstanding nutrition education program for the Qantas Group in 2024, with a special focus on our Cabin Crew Community. Her sessions were informative, engaging, and thoughtfully tailored to the needs of our frontline employees. Melissa’s ability to connect face-to-face with our teams fostered meaningful engagement, and we highly recommend her services.
Kindly
Hannah Kwok
Senior Wellbeing Advisor, Qantas Group Employee Wellbeing
Qantas Airways Limited
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Moreton Bay Healthy and Active Program
Moreton Bay Healthy and Active Program
Moreton Bay Healthy and Active Program
I had the absolute pleasure of hosting my popular
Kick Sugar Workshopas part of the amazing Moreton Bay Healthy & Active Program — and wow, what a vibrant, curious, and engaged group we had!
✨ What We Covered:
We tackled the not-so-sweet truth about sugar – the hidden forms, how it affects hormones, mood, and energy, and more importantly, how to begin breaking free from its grip. There were ‘aha!’ moments, laughter, great questions, and real stories shared — a powerful reminder that we’re not alone in the sugar struggle.
🧠 One participant said:
"I thought I was eating healthy, but I learned today that even my 'healthy' yoghurt has more sugar than a donut!"
✅ The biggest takeaway?
Knowledge is power— and once you know where sugar hides and how it hijacks your metabolism, you can finally start taking back control.
Mastering Metabolism Workshop
Moreton Bay Healthy and Active Program
Moreton Bay Healthy and Active Program
Melissa has created this workshop as the majority of her clients struggle with trying to lose weight and are completely lost when it comes to the reason why they can not lose weight whilst eating healthy foods and exercising alot. Melissa educates the underlying causes and implements tools to start mastering your metabolism to lose weight and keep it off.
This 2 hour workshop is educational, fun, interactive and you even get some yummy healthy treats Melissa creates for her participants.
Contact Melissa for more information or to book a workshop in your workplace at
Culinary Nutrition Workshop
Moreton Bay Healthy and Active Program
Culinary Nutrition Workshop
If you have been wandering what the hype is about our incredible personalised health and weightloss program, Metabolic Balance then this workshop is for you.
Melissa cooks 3 Metabolic Balance friendly recipes right in front of you whilst educating ingredients and the best part.....you get to eat her food. Melissa will open your eyes to how easy it is to create flavour through herbs and spices and throw away all those bottled sauces and dressings whilst eating better for your health.
Learn about how Metabolic Balance can help you achieve your health and weight goals for good.
Contact Melissa for more information or to book a workshop in your workplace at
Good Mood Food Culinary Workshop
Get the girls together or embrace a date with a difference with your partner with my Nutritionally based Cooking and Nutritional Workshops.
Melissa has been running her very successful and popular GOOD MOOD FOOD Culinary Nutritional Workshops in Redcliffe, Queensland. Watch this space for more upcoming themed workshops. The best part is, you get to taste her healthy creative meals that will inspire you to get in the kitchen yourself and recreate these.
For upcoming sessions or if you would like Melissa in your workplace running one of these workshops, hit the button below or contact me at melissa@uniquelyyounutrition.com.au
Kick Sugar Workshop
Melissa runs these fun and interactive workshops to help people understand why too much sugar is not good for us. She explains in easy terms food label reading, understanding ingredients and different words that are used in replacement of sugar although still get metabolised the same way sugar does. Melissa myth busts marketing ploys, packaging etc. to educate and empower you.
This 2 hour workshop is educational, fun, interactive and you even get some yummy healthy treats Melissa creates for her participants.
Contact Melissa for more information or to book a workshop in your workplace at
Looking for a speaker for your workplace or upcoming event?
Melissa's insights into nutrition, educating around the basics of food label reading, meal prepping, food as medicine etc. will benefit both men and women of all ages—particularly those who work in high pressure environments and shift work.
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