Why this matters

Answers, not just more questions

States of Vitality is designed to show you what your organisation looks like from the inside - across the conditions that shape how people work, grow, connect and adapt.

Not a single score. Not a sentiment check. A structured read across eight dimensions of organisational health, measured through the eyes of the people who work there. The result is a picture clear enough to act on - one that shows you where conditions are strong, where they are thin, and where different groups experience the same organisation in different ways.

A complement, not a replacement

Most organisations already collect data from their people - engagement surveys, pulse checks, eNPS. That data tells you something real. States of Vitality is designed to sit alongside it, and show you what it cannot.

Your engagement scoreStates of Vitality

Engagement scores tell you a level. SoV shows you the conditions underneath.

An engagement score can tell you that engagement has dropped. It is less able to tell you why - whether the cause is in how work flows, how change is being absorbed, or whether people feel they are growing. SoV reads the conditions that produce engagement, so when the score moves, you can see what moved it.

Your internal NPSStates of Vitality

Internal NPS tells you direction. SoV shows you the shape.

A rising eNPS says things are getting better. It does not say where - or for whom. SoV breaks the picture down by group, by dimension, and by the five angles inside each dimension, so you can see whether the improvement is broad or narrow, and who is still being left behind.

Your pulse surveyStates of Vitality

Pulse surveys ask how people feel. SoV asks what they encounter.

A pulse asks for a reaction. SoV asks how often specific conditions are true - a frequency scale, not a sentiment one. The difference matters: one measures opinion, the other measures experience. Both are useful. Together, they are more useful.

Answers, not more questions

Most ways of measuring how people experience work start with a question: are people engaged? How do they feel about their manager? Would they recommend this as a place to work?

The answer comes back as a score. And the score creates another question: why?

States of Vitality is designed to start in a different place. Instead of asking whether people are engaged and then working backwards, it reads the conditions directly - strategy, flow, service, purpose, development, culture, connection, change - and shows you where each one holds and where it thins.

The difference: are people engaged? gives you a question to investigate. Here are six places your front line teams report friction gives you something to work with.

The question you start with
Engagement
68%
why?
What you get to work with
  • Front line teams report friction in 3 of 5 Flow dynamics
  • Strategy clarity drops sharply below manager level
  • Development scores high - but only for the first two years
Illustrative - the kind of specific findings SoV surfaces, not real data.
The perception gap

Different groups experience the same organisation differently. That is not a failure - it is how organisations work. The question is whether you can see the difference, or whether it sits underneath a single average.

States of Vitality is designed to surface exactly that. Every score is broken down by seniority, department, tenure and location - so the gaps come into view instead of being averaged away.

Rated their culture good or excellent
82%
of executives
47%
of individual contributors
Source: SHRM, 2024

This is what States of Vitality is built for

We can talk through what a read across your organisation would look like - scope, timing and price.

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