Engagement Science. Business Results.

The biggest lever to your business results?

Your people, being engaged.

35 years of scientific research. Millions of surveys.

Globally, engagement is going down. Why?

The engagement industry has been measuring the wrong thing.

What the organisation does to create engagement — not engagement itself.

Human Formulas is here to change this.

Science-based measures of actual engagement, so your business can take targeted action.

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Engagement is scientifically complex — and it starts with the human psyche. Let’s give it the attention it deserves.

Great engagement is built on seven felt conditions. Each one is a psychological experience — not a business slogan.

Psychological Safety — knowing you can speak up, take risks, and be yourself at work without fear of negative consequences.
Trust — the confidence that people, managers, and the organisation do what they say they will do.
Meaningfulness — the belief that your work matters to the vision, mission and goals of the organisation.
Empowerment — the unspoken permission and support to act on your judgment and expertise within your role, for the good of the organisation.
Belonging — the shared experience of moving toward the organisation’s goals, valued for the part you play and able to bring your full self to work.
Optimism — the expectation that you’ll experience good outcomes at work, and that your effort has a hand in getting there.
Mastery — the self-belief that you have the skills, knowledge and attributes to do your best work today, with room to grow further when you want to.

Reduce these seven felt conditions to a survey about how your organisation is operating — not what your employees are experiencing — and you’re not measuring engagement at all. You can’t fix what you haven’t properly measured.

Our Position

What makes Human Formulas different

We sit at the intersection of intellectual rigour, business impact and human experience — academically grounded, practically delivered, for commercial results that benefit your people.

Academic rigour

Our approach is grounded in decades of academic research and the founder’s original Masters thesis on employee engagement in an international context.

Practical application

We do the research so you do not have to. Grounded in the founder’s career in senior HR leadership, we translate decades of academic evidence into strategy that works in the reality of your business — from diagnostic to embedded change. We stay with you.

Human experience

Engagement is a psychological experience — not just a business metric. We measure what your people are actually feeling, so the action plan addresses the real conditions of engagement in your organisation, not just its operational surface.

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