Mental Health Leader Spotlight: Amelia Subryan, Senior Manager, Health and Wellbeing at lululemon

November 10, 2025

At Lyra, we’re proud to partner with benefits leaders who think boldly and prioritize the mental health of their employees by visibly and meaningfully integrating mental health into their broader company strategy. Amelia Subryan, senior manager, health and wellbeing at lululemon, is the winner of Lyra’s 2025 Workforce Mental Health Leader of the Year award. Amelia has consistently prioritized the mental health care of their employees by visibly and meaningfully integrating a mental health care focus into their broader company strategy. Earlier this year, we had the privilege of speaking with her about how she promotes mental health in the workplace. 

What is your philosophy around caring for a workforce?
Caring for others and caring for self is a really important philosophy at lululemon. It informs the decisions we make and who we collaborate with. How do we care for others? How do we care for self? We approach caring for the workforce by keeping that in mind.

What are you especially proud of?
I think the thing I'm most proud of with lululemon is just how aware our people are of the services. We hear so often about the great interactions or great feedback that employees have had from reaching out to our EAP. What we're doing is working. It is successful. Our employees appreciate it, they feel good about it, the return is there, and they're continuing to reach out. And I think it's always just been so positive. That's where the success lies.

What do you or your members love most about the Lyra benefit?
We always try to give our employees a little bit more, so we are a little bit more generous on the number of sessions we provide. I think that's something that our employees love.  We also often have seminars with Lyra. We are very intentional with the types of seminars that we set up and the feedback is always phenomenal. People are always asking for the recordings.  We trust Lyra in creating really reliable and valid content.  Whenever we need something that's going to be delivered globally, we trust Lyra so much in doing that. And so the feedback from that has always been very positive.

If another benefits leader asks you how or why they should make the case for a mental health benefit, what would you tell them?
Absolutely, yes, yes, yes, yes! Because not only when you look at it from an insurance perspective on things like return on investments, what it means for health care spend, or even looking at fewer leaves or less sick time—but also looking at overall happiness and prosperity of an employee and their just general well-being. Having a mental health benefit is so important to that. A healthy employee is a happy employee. It just translates in so many ways—in performance, in general happiness, and in attrition and retention—all of the things. I one hundred percent think that it's a very, very necessary benefit to have.