Matt Bloom

Matt Bloom is the Principle Investigator of the Wellbeing at Work Program (wellbeing.nd.edu) in which he and his team studying flourishing among the helping and caring professions. Matt has received almost $10 million in grant funding to support his research. Matt led an interdisciplinary team of ten researchers and staff who worked together to learn how to sustain helping and care-giving professionals in their work. The team used large-scale surveys, narrative interviews, and daily life studies to explore wellbeing.

Matt shifted out of his tenured position so he could focus on turning insights from the the large and growing research on wellbeing into resources and tools that can support wellbeing. He is co-founder of Ritual (ritual.io), a mobile and web app that provides science-based wellbeing practices.

Failing to follow the good advice of his parents, Matt has had a circuitous career. Before becoming a professor, Matt worked as a paramedic, as an orderly in a psychiatric hospital, as a consultant for Arthur Young and a financial advisor for Shearson Lehman Brothers.