We Believe
You have the most power to shape your own health and well-being
Health is both physical and mental
Your health is deeply connected to your social community at work and beyond
The AdaRose Story
The AdaRose story is rooted in our founder’s professional experience within the U.S. healthcare system and her passion for empowering remote workers to take control of their health through knowledge and tools.
Empowering Patients through Technology
Before founding AdaRose, Lygeia Ricciardi spent 20 years redefining how patients manage their health by influencing the design of nationwide policies. These resources ranged from hospital patient portals to smartwatches that help patients access their medical records, connect with each other, and use data to improve their health.
Surviving a Broken Heart
AdaRose is named after Lygeia’s daughter Ada, and reflects her story of health ownership. When doctors told Lygeia that her newborn baby needed open-heart surgery to close a hole in her heart, Lygeia didn’t just sign up. As an experienced advocate for patients, and with intensive research and professional input, she and her husband chose to “watch and wait” instead of surgery–a decision their whole family is grateful for today. But the path wasn’t easy.
With the decision about her daughter’s heart and managing other subsequent family conditions including cancer and mental health, Lygeia is familiar with the stress of being a caregiver. It’s often hard to know what’s right for a loved one, and it’s painful and scary to see them suffer. That stress plus the day-to-day care of loved ones takes its toll.
Self Care in the Midst of the Pandemic Lockdown
Like many of us, Lygeia experienced acute stress in the midst of the pandemic lockdown. Her tween/teen daughters were isolated and experiencing anxiety, her remote employer downsized, and she was surrounded by political upheaval ranging from protests to an attempt to overthrow the Capitol just blocks from her home.
To keep showing up as the strongest, best version of herself, something in her life needed to change.
A Healthier Way to Work and Live
Determined to manage her own stress and loneliness, Lygeia began integrating small healthy habits into her life, and reconnecting with people remotely. After experiencing the benefits of focusing on self-care, she started investigating how to help others do the same with her knowledge of patient engagement. Working from home, she experimented with workplace wellness habits and changes, such as connecting with others regularly, incorporating exercise into her work day, and implementing mindset habits. The results exceeded her expectations. Instead of just managing her own wellness by following a self-care regime, she found ways to grow and thrive.
Irresistible Workplace Wellness
Using what she had learned from her wellness journey and experience as a leader in digital health programs, Lygeia sought to empower other remote workers to thrive, too. What if wellness could be integrated into the way we work and live, and be so intriguing and fun that you *wanted* to do it? This vision was the catalyst for the creation of AdaRose. She found Lauren Creech, a health coach who shared her passion for health and wellness. Together they drew on evidence-based research in behavior change to build unique wellness programs for remote teams that engage employees both on and offline with wellness kits mailed to their homes.
Today, AdaRose is proud to move the needle in corporate wellness by helping employees thrive with programs integrating personalized micro-breaks, cutting-edge wellness techniques, kits by mail, and actionable analytics to help employers achieve better health outcomes and enhance team culture.
Empower Your Employees to Feel and Perform their Best
We encourage employers to reach out and discover how their employees can benefit from using AdaRose’s workplace wellness programs. Together, we can forge a path towards better health outcomes and a future in which employees have the knowledge and tools to own their health so they can work, feel, and live better.
The People Behind AdaRose
Lygeia Ricciardi
Founder & CEO
Lygeia Ricciardi (lygeia.com) is the founder and CEO of AdaRose, which helps employers move their workforces from stress to success through engaging experiences.
Lygeia has been at the vanguard of the patient and consumer engagement movement in both the public and private sectors. In the US federal government she launched and led nationwide pro-consumer programs and policies. She has also served as Chief Transformation Officer at Carium, a patient-centered telehealth company, and as a consultant, advisor, and board member to numerous organizations.
Lygeia has been named among the 30 Voices Transforming Wellness in 2023. She has appeared in Forbes, Consumer Reports, the Wall Street Journal, C-SPAN, and NPR.
She holds a BA from Wellesley College and a Masters from Harvard.
Lygeia lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two daughters, and a pair of Siamese cats. She loves good food, good books, and sharing good times with family and friends.
Lygeia Ricciardi
Founder & CEO
Lauren Creech
Operations Manager
Lauren’s industry experience spans health care and wellness center settings, corporate wellness programs, and private coaching clients.
Lauren is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) through the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health from the University of South Carolina.
At the nationally-recognized hospital system Atrium Health, Lauren applied her training in public health and coaching for the internal corporate wellness LiveWELL program.
In addition, Lauren worked in the wearable technology space as a Fitbit Health Coach, helping to pilot new programs that utilize digital tools to engage and inspire consumers across the country.
Lauren resides in Helena, Montana with her husband and pup, Dexter. In her free time, Lauren enjoys camping, skiing, mountain biking, hiking, reading, and enjoying all the outdoor adventures Big Sky has to offer!
Lauren Creech
Operations Manager
Michael Hatfield
Advisor
Mike is a technology pioneer and visionary. He has co-founded four successful tech ventures over the past 20 years: Cerent, Calix, Cyan, and Carium. Mike enjoys building high-performance teams that create disruptive and beneficial technology.
Mike is currently the Chairman and Co-Founder of Carium, delivering the next generation of advanced virtual healthcare technology. The Carium platform provides an end-to-end care journey that is person-centric, proactive, and efficient for care teams and the people they serve
Mike holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Economics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. in Finance from Indiana University. He lives in Northern California.
Michael Hatfield
Advisor
Heather McKee, Ph.D.
Behavior Change Expertise
Dr. Heather McKee is known as Europe's leading lifestyle behaviour change specialist, keynote speaker, and founder of drheathermckee.co.uk
Having studied health behaviour change psychology for 10 years, her mission is to offer a sustainable, evidence-based alternative to an industry saturated with quick fixes and fads.
Globally she has worked with over 100+ companies in 15+ industries to design digital health products and deliver keynote talks. Past clients include lululemon, booking.com, Starbucks, Rituals, Unilever, HSBC, and Sainsbury's.
Dr. McKee’s research has been published internationally in leading academic journals, as well as featured in Time magazine, Vogue, Huffington Post, The Times, and LA Times.
Heather McKee, Ph.D.
Behavior Change Expertise
Laurent Guinand, Ph.D.
Advisor
As the founder and CEO of Aramis Advisors, Laurent helps create and accelerate economic value for companies through well-crafted and realistic growth strategies and applied implementation. With over 30 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, and entrepreneurship, he has a proven track record of designing and building new revenue engines in diverse industries such as healthcare, financial services, non-profit, and wine and spirits.
Laurent Guinand, Ph.D.
Advisor
Maddie Batchelder
Product Development
Maddie focuses on designing and developing AdaRose’s products and programs.
She holds a BA in Public Health from UC Berkeley, with a minor in Spanish, and is pursuing a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Management with a Concentration in Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Maddie’s work experiences include private sector and non-profit roles. Most recently, she was a consultant at Cloudmed, which helps hospital systems maximize healthcare outcomes.
Maddie Batchelder
Product Development
