Our founding story
Earlier this year, at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, the founding Quan team, a group of experts from various fields, came together to reflect on the importance of well-being, “It became obvious that COVID-19 was having a heavy impact on both our personal and work lives”. What stood out was that organizations were attempting to help employees by offering well-meaning, albeit generic solutions, “hosting online yoga sessions, sending employees smoothies and providing ergonomic office equipment.” However, many efforts only offered short term relief and did not tackle the underlying issues. It became clear that instead of trying to offer solutions, the focus needed to be on helping people identify the core problems.
The founding members of Quan worked diligently with psychologists and therapists to develop a well-being assessment focused on improving “self-awareness” and helping individuals identify the areas which need attention across their personal and work lives. Quan’s digital platform is geared at driving behavioural change by offering a holistic method to improve “self-care”. The learning and development solution brings together an assessment, personalised insights and tailored interventions – backed by data and delivered by experts from both the science and practice fields.
The Founders
Arosha Brouwer’s extensive professional experience as a consultant leading projects in corporate innovation and new business models has given her unique insight into what needs to change in the modus operandi of traditional organizations in order to attract and retain the purpose-driven talent of today and the future. She had dedicated her professional career to improving the well-being and the performance of individuals and teams.
Lucy Howie has a background as a former tech startup CEO in the innovation space, and executive in a large tech organization. She brings together vast knowledge of tech and innovation, as well as a passion for holistic well-being, to build a product for true impact. Together they have established Quan, where the mission is to place well-being at the heart of success for organizations, and to give employees the tools to improve self-awareness and self-care.