How Access built a culture of accountability & activity with Woliba

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Vanessa Hernandez

Wellness Administrator, Access

With wellness initiatives scattered across disconnected tools and no way to track who was actually showing up, Access needed a single platform to bring accountability and momentum to their employee health program. They partnered with Woliba to centralize activities, run team fitness challenges, and deliver expert-led Lunch & Learns — all in one place. Today, enrollment has exceeded 115% of purchased seats, active participation has climbed to 77%, and wellness is no longer an individual effort — it’s a shared team culture.
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Vanessa Hernandez

Wellness Administrator, Access

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About

Access is the ADA complementary paratransit service for eligible individuals in Los Angeles County, providing shared-ride transportation within ¾ mile of fixed bus routes and Metro Rail stations during operating hours.

HQ

El Monte, CA

Industry

Professional Services

company size

Mid Size (1,000+)

Woliba Solutions

Focus Areas

Woliba takes so much off my plate. All the things that I used to do manually are all taken care of.

Access had the drive to build a real wellness culture, but without a centralized platform, efforts stayed fragmented and participation stayed invisible. With Woliba, they brought everything together — activity tracking, team challenges, certified coaching sessions, and real-time reporting — giving their team one place to show up, stay consistent, and hold each other accountable.

The Challenge

Wellness without a center of gravity

Before Woliba, Access was committed to employee wellness in spirit but lacked the infrastructure to make it stick. Participation was hard to track, resources were scattered, and there was no single home for their growing library of fitness goals and education.

Manual administration

Tracking participation across different initiatives was time consuming and error-prone.

Low engagement visibility

No easy way to see which wellness topics resonated, or where interest was quietly fading.

Disjointed resources

Fitness goals and educational content lived in different places, making consistency hard.

Missing accountability

Participation was individual and invisible — no shared team responsibility or social momentum.

The Solution

One platform. One culture.

Woliba gave Access the digital infrastructure to centralize everything and build the accountability culture they’d been working toward. Three features drove the transformation.

The Health Hub

Centralized every wellness activity, so employees log progress easily and admins see participation in real time.

Certified Coach series

Monthly Lunch & Learns on metabolism, stress‑release stretches, and dumbbell workouts — led by certified coaches.

Team fitness challenges

Woliba’s challenge framework turned individual goals into a shared team responsibility making progress visible and motivating.

Seamless administration

Real-time dashboards eliminated manual tracking and gave the team instant visibility into what was working.

The Impact

The Journey

Rapid momentum from day one

Access joined in August 2024 and hit the ground running — building participation, deepening programming, and growing their active base every year since.

01
Aug–Dec 2024

Immediate adoption, beyond expectations

Within months, Access enrolled 46 users against 40 seats — 115% enrollment. 60% were immediately active, completing 36 challenge entries and forming early habits around fitness and the Health Hub.

115% enrolled
60% active
36 challenge entries

02
Jan–Dec 2025

Deeper programming, growing participation

Active users grew to 70% of the platform. Challenge participation climbed to 53 entries, and the Certified Coach Lunch & Learn series established a rhythm of monthly expert-led education employees looked forward to.

70% active
53 challenge entries
Monthly Lunch & Learns

03
Jan–May 2026 · YTD

Sustained habits, stronger community

77% of the platform is now active — the highest rate yet. Event attendance jumped to 12 in just five months, and challenge entries (65) already exceed all of 2025 with seven months still to go.

77% active
65 challenge entries
12 events attended

Engagement Data

Participation growing every year

From 60% active users at launch to 77% and rising in 2026, Access has steadily expanded the reach and depth of their wellness program.

115%

Platform enrollment vs. purchased seats

46 users / 40 seats

77%

Active users in 2026 (YTD)

↑ from 60% at launch

448+

Total wellness activities completed

10 avg per user

48%

Challenge participation rate

~2× industry average

What’s Next

What’s Next

Building on the momentum

With a strong foundation in place, Access is focused on deepening the connection between education and action through the rest of 2026.

Expanding Lunch & Learns

Continuing the monthly certified-coach series, giving employees expert health education they can act on immediately.

Sustaining the 10+ activity average

Keeping per-user engagement consistent so wellness stays a long-term habit, not a seasonal spike.

Key Takeaways

Consolidating payroll, HR, and performance tools into Lattice dramatically
reduced manual work.

Automated onboarding and payroll processes saved significant administrative time.

Compensation updates became seamless, eliminating spreadsheet headaches.

A unified system enabled Strike Graph’s lean HR team to prioritize strategic work.

“Access utilized Woliba to make wellness meaningful and visible across our team. With 48% challenge participation and an average of 10 activities per user, our employees stay motivated and connected — all while making administration seamless.”
Vanessa Hernandez, Wellness Administrator, Access

Access utilized Woliba to make wellness meaningful and visible across our team. Wi th 48% challenge participation and an average of 10 activities per user, our employees stay motivated and connected — all while making administration

Vanessa Hernandez

Wellness Administrator, Access

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