TVH in the Americas (TVH) employees walk more than 54,000 miles in Global Walking Challenge

Jun. 20, 2021

The employees of TVH in the Americas (TVH), Olathe, Kan., walked more than 54,000 miles in the company’s first-ever Global Walking Challenge. Starting April 19 and running through May 16, more than 450 TVH employees from 20 locations around the world took 117,301,201 steps during the four-week challenge, going 54,665 miles. The Global Walking Challenge was just one of the initiatives from the company’s Nudge program, which encourages employees to make healthy choices while working on their mental and physical well-being.

The distance is the equivalent to 962,104 football fields, more than 2,084 marathon lengths or a little over two times the world’s circumference. Steps were tracked per country and individually. The Mexico team achieved the most steps per person per day with an average of 16,636 steps. Dhanraj Wanve, on the company’s India team, achieved 1,255,055 steps in total.

Lucy DelSarto, health and wellness coach, TVH, and director of the Nudge program for TVH in the Americas, was excited about the response the challenge received worldwide.

“When I first started with TVH, the Nudge program was five years old and doing 12-week walking challenges. I found that many people didn’t participate because of the length of time. So, for the past five years, I have restructured the challenge to be four weeks long, four times a year, and the response has been phenomenal,” she said. “With the growth the initiative saw in the Americas, we decided to take the Nudge program and its walking challenge global. Over the last year, we have been coordinating with our headquarters in Belgium to establish different initiatives that would make sense for their location. It was thrilling to see so many employees participate in our first-ever Global Walking Challenge.”

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