About Us
We transform absence management into a proactive and supportive journey, enhancing both individual well-being and organizational efficiency. With over 25-years of experience, we help organizations reduce costs, mitigate risk, and remain compliant.
Our Mission
On an employee level, our mission is to enable individuals to restore health and functionality; to return-to-work, safely and seamlessly; and to optimize work wellness (working well).
On an organizational level, our mission is to manage comprehensive absence programs that are not only all-encompassing, but also beneficial. Our mission is to produce timely communications that will facilitate your operationalizing and workforce/roster planning.
Our ultimate missional goal is to foster a healthy workforce (people) and workplace (places and spaces). ViAbility will strive to deliver excellent leave-of-absence portfolio outcomes. We will ease administrative burden, ensure compliance, maximize cost savings, and enrich your human capital and resources.
Our Vision
Our vision is to empower your organization’s workforce (your people) through proactive and supportive absence management – all while fostering a culture of resiliency and accountability. We aim to achieve this by identifying and implementing the right solution at the right time along the absence-return-to-work continuum, illustrated below.
Our Team
We have assembled a multidisciplinary team of subject matter experts, healthcare practitioners, and legal professionals to help your organization meet its needs and goals. Our team brings diverse expertise to tackle complex Human Resources (HR) challenges. We prioritize a holistic approach to disability management, medical coordination, rehabilitation, and return-to-work – all while promoting employee health-and-wellness and advising on corporate preventative strategies. Our team is comprised of the following members:
- Kinesiologists
- Occupational Therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Nurses
- Herbalists/Nutritionists
- Disability Management Specialists/Consultants
- Clinical Rehabilitation Practitioners
- Functional Rehabilitation Specialists/RTW Specialists
- Vocational Rehabilitation Specialists
We have also enlisted a team of other professionals that will ensure business continuity, statutory and regulatory compliance, and advantageous case-profiling and aggregate-reporting:
- Paralegal
- Statisticians
- IT Professionals
- Governance/Communications Specialists
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Our Chief Executive Officer
Our Chief Executive Office (CEO), Chris Walton, began his educational pursuit in Kinesiology at McMaster University in 1992. He then pursued graduate education at the University of Guelph where he studied Kinesiology, Rehabilitation Sciences, and Nutritional Sciences (theory and practice). Chris purposefully continued his educational quest, obtaining the Group Benefit Associate (GBA) designation (International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans [IFEBP]). He also specialized - and became certified - in various occupational health assessments (Ergonomics, Functional Abilities/Capacities Evaluation, Work-Site Analysis [WSA], Job Demands Analysis [JDA], Physical Demands Analysis [PDA], Cognitive Demands Analysis [CDA], In-Home/Activities-of-Daily-Living [ADL] Assessments, and Vocational Assessments).
Chris' professional journey spans over 25 years. He started to work in the clinical field at hospitals and rehabilitation clinics where he garnered a wide scope of clinical knowledge and experiences. Chris subsequently started to work for government ministries (operational branches), insurance companies, organizations/employers (public and private), and 3rd party management firms/vendors. He worked for many years on the front-lines as a Disability Claims Specialist and Case Manager, as a Disability Management Consultant/Specialist and Advisor, as a Functional/Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist, and as an Accommodations Specialist. Chris has networked and established long-lasting relationships in this challenging and amazing industry.
Chris intentionally worked on many sides of the industry over many years. This was to ensure that he gained the knowledge, practice, and wisdom before creating and launching ViAbility - Absence Management Solutions. Partnering with the company Chief Operating Officer and working collaboratively with a team of case-management specialists and healthcare practitioners, ViAbility is prepared and equipped to provide total-absence-management-solutions for your organization.
