Canada Awards for Excellence

You likely know Sun Life as a market leader providing Canadians with solutions for their health, wealth and protection needs for over 155 years. Sun Life’s Purpose is to help Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. It is the company’s north star and fuels every Sun Life employee to deliver for Clients every day.

Sun Life has another important role as an employer to more than 11,000 employees across Canada. Sun Life embeds its Purpose throughout its organization, recognizing that in order to inspire meaningful action on mental health with their Clients, they must lead by example by being best in class for their own Employees.

At Sun Life, Employee mental health outcomes are part of the company’s business goals. The importance of Employee mental health comes from the top down where leaders demonstrate empathy and compassion, facilitate open and vulnerable conversations, and empower Employees to take action on their mental health. The President of Sun Life Canada has taken an active role in calling on CEOs across Canada to act on Employee mental health within their own organizations, allowing Sun Life to amplify its effect both in and outside of its organization.