Our approach
Evidence before intervention. Always.
Most workforce health spending fails for the same reason: it starts with an activity rather than a question. A wellbeing day is booked, an app is rolled out, a workshop is delivered, and nobody can say afterwards what changed. We work the other way round.
The method
01
Diagnose
We establish the baseline: where absence sits, what turnover costs, where capacity is being lost, and which teams carry the risk. Assessment, screening, survey and reporting, not assumption.
02
Prioritise
Not every finding is worth acting on. We identify the small number of issues with the clearest link to performance, and we agree with you what success will look like in numbers before anything begins.
03
Act
We deliver targeted programmes across physical, mental, financial and social performance, supported by leadership enablement so that change holds after we leave the room.
04
Measure
We report against the baseline, in the metrics your board already reviews. Where something is not working, we say so and change it.
Why it holds up
Prevention outperforms reaction.
Analysis of workplace mental health investment puts the average return at £4.70 for every £1 spent. The more useful finding is where that return comes from. Strategy is not a luxury layer on top of delivery. It is where most of the return is.
£4.70
Returned for every £1 spent on supporting the mental health and wellbeing of a workforce, averaged across 26 studies published since 2011.
Higher return on investment can be achieved by early interventions, such as organisation-wide culture change and education, than more in-depth support that may be needed at a later stage when a person is struggling.
Source: Deloitte, Mental Health and Employers (opens in a new tab), fourth report, May 2024. Return on investment is a literature review of 26 sources published since 2011, averaged.
The boundary
What we do not do.
- Sell a platform, or price per employee per month.
- Promise predictive analytics we cannot yet deliver.
- Measure success by how many people attended.
The method is the same. The starting point is not.
Where you begin depends on what the evidence says. Four services carry the work, and a short conversation is usually enough to tell which of them you need first.