People Science start-up releases ‘Faster Flourishing’ for HR teams to overcome frustrations with poor employee survey experiences

LONDON, UK.—SHAPE Global, the world’s most comprehensive system for employee flourishing, unveiled a ground-breaking innovation to enable faster flourishing.

While businesses have long recognised the importance of employee engagement and its link to productivity, efforts to scale and maintain both have been ineffective. In fact, only 23% of global workers are actively engaged at work, per Gallup’s 2023 State of the Global Workplace Report. Gallup estimates that this is an $8.8 trilllion problem and amounts to roughly 9% of the global GDP. According to SHAPE, this follows a long list of worrying revelations that are actually a flourishing deficit in disguise.

“The antidote to this deficit starts with looking beyond traditional employee engagement programs, said Gordon Watson, Chairman AXA Asia, and senior board advisor at SHAPE. “That’s what SHAPE has done, and the results can help every employee build a flourishing mindset, equip them with the tools to flourish faster, and ultimately enable the organisation to address its flourishing deficit.”

Flourishing means people reaching their full potential at work through the conditions that enable optimal performance, fulfilment and growth. SHAPE measures flourishing through ProScore, ushering in a new era of productivity at work. Developed from the ground-up, this highly sensitive scoring system scales to confidentially report individual and collective group flourishing.

SHAPE delivers faster flourishing through:

ProScore: measures the precise degree of flourishing, striving, and struggling among employees across 100+ topics providing instant and private reporting. The measurements are organised into the 12 areas most critical to performance at work and displayed as the Flourishing Wheel.
SHAPE Guidance: year-round motivational messages help every employee build a flourishing mindset. SHAPE has worked hard to find the balance between extrinsic motivation to begin, and ongoing intrinsic habit formation to ensure everyone can flourish for longer.
Precise Actions: SHAPE identifies precisely which actions distinctly increase each employee’s chance of flourishing by 2x, 3x… up to 10x faster. This reduces the friction from insight to action and enables every individual to understand, act, and succeed–ultimately, contributing to organisational flourishing through individual action.
SHAPE Insights: Regular, powerful insights exclusively for executive teams, provides novel insights supported by scientific rigour. These help drive strategy to address organisation-wide flourishing deficits.

In 2017, SHAPE began its investigation into engagement and productivity with organisational performance—the employee. SHAPE data confirmed that almost two thirds of companies measured weren’t flourishing—a significant barrier to productivity and peak performance.

“Through our work in employee experience and its link to productivity we’ve discovered that flourishing goes hand in hand with some of the most important business metrics today. From productivity and engagement to retention and resilience, flourishing consistently emerges as the common thread.” says Ali Khan, CEO at SHAPE Global.

“We know these are all high-priority issues, not just for executive teams, but also for managers grappling with them operationally, and employees feeling the brunt of the issues at ground level. We’re joining hands with organisations through our campaign, FFS. For Flourishing’s Sake is about SHAPE standing in solidarity to make survey experiences valuable and rewarding. With flourishing established as the centrepiece, we’re able to give everyone the single most important KPI to work towards. One that benefits employers and employees alike. It’s as simple as that.”

SHAPE proudly embraces the advocacy for flourishing through its brand. The new identity enables efficient communication of the many benefits of flourishing to all stakeholders. And given its central role in addressing some of the biggest business challenges of our times, SHAPE is finding common ground with ambassadors striving to establish flourishing globally.

About SHAPE
SHAPE is the employee flourishing company. Our mission is to help every employee build a flourishing mindset, to flourish faster, and address their flourishing deficit by working together. We make flourishing accessible to any company of any size. Employees, managers and executives can self-excel through meaningful change. Working together with global partners and academic institutions, we’re working to advance the practical benefits of flourishing at work.

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Published

September 18, 2023, 7:00 AM BST

Behavioural science start-up launches to help international businesses solve workplace productivity puzzle

AXA Asia Chairman, global HR leader formerly with Airbnb and Meta, and MADE.com ex-CEO among five appointments to SHAPE Global’s advisory board as it plans to share the science which helps workers and businesses flourish

SHAPE Global, a behavioural science start-up has launched with a pledge to improve productivity for businesses around the world impacted by a common set of workplace issues, by helping executives, managers and workers to flourish. Return to the office, burnout, talent retention, generational gaps at work, tumbling eNPS. All these employee-centric issues are affecting the smallest enterprises, through to the largest multi-national corporates in every industry and every country. Created by Ali Khan and Dr. John Lang, SHAPE is an employee experience and organisational impact platform. Ali and John believe businesses now want more robust, evidence-backed insights that inform personal, team and company level actions to address today’s pressing workplace challenges, and achieve measurably better performance while helping people to flourish at work. The acronym SHAPE stands for the System for Health, Attendance, Productivity and Engagement. The platform analyses factors including workplace satisfaction, engagement, culture, and health to equip every employee, manager, and executive with a personalised and actionable pathway to help them and their teams measurably flourish at work. And SHAPE has already won backing from a number of global business leaders, five of whom have been appointed to join SHAPE’s advisory board to expand the reach and relevance of the firm to a global audience. SHAPE’s new advisory board members are:

Gordon Watson, Chairman of AXA Asia
Ken Hoskin, Vice President and Head of APAC HR, Adyen, formerly with Meta and Airbnb
Nicola Thompson, Senior Executive, Board Advisor, and former CEO of MADE.com
Craig Moss, Executive Vice President of Measurement at Ethisphere
Doug Hudson, Managing Partner and Founding Member of Braxton Capital

Ali Khan

Chief Executive Officer

SHAPE

“As the employee experience measurement company, our mission is to help business leaders, managers and individual employees flourish. We’ve developed a way to measure and report the areas people need to focus on most and get support to reach their peak performance. “SHAPE is now actively helping businesses grapple with today’s prevalent concerns like return to the office, finding balance in hybrid working, solving talent retention issues, improving mental well-being. And we believe US businesses want a more intelligent system like SHAPE to help them in instantly connecting business insights to tangible employee actions. "The appointment of our advisory board underscores our commitment to integrate science-backed insights with real-world experiences across industries to help businesses across the globe. “I'm excited to be hosting roundtable sessions with our advisors during the course of the coming year. Business leaders can join us in this forum designed to share actionable insights and learnings that can help them address real and pressing business concerns.”

Dr. John Lang

Chief Scientific Officer

SHAPE

“I’m very excited about the quality of the appointments to our SHAPE Advisory Board. It is a huge testament to the value these global industry leaders see in SHAPE. “The collective expertise of our new advisory board members perfectly complements our guiding mantra, know your people. “Each advisor brings a unique set of experiences, skills and their own shared goals of making a positive impact by helping businesses flourish.”

Gordon Watson

Chairman, AXA Asia

Gordon Watson, also the Chair of the Mental Health at Work Index™, has consistently championed mental health awareness, a pursuit complimenting SHAPE's commitment to employees’ mental well-being. He said “I am honoured to join as Senior Advisor to the SHAPE Board. Together, we are establishing a new paradigm that transcends traditional employee surveying to focus on purposeful measurement to enable flourishing. This engagement echoes my passionate advocacy for supporting workforce mental health, a domain which SHAPE is a pioneer in.”

Ken Hoskin

Head of APAC HR, Adyen

(Formerly at Meta, Airbnb)

Formerly HR leader at Meta and Airbnb Asia region, Ken is renowned for enhancing employee value and influencing commercial success. His effective methodology for nurturing talent and progression resonates deeply with SHAPE's core values. “SHAPE is pioneering the future of HR, crafting an exceptional blend of work flexibility, managerial support, and human-centric strategies, all powered by scientific insights,” says Hoskin. “The innovation SHAPE brings to the employee experience is transforming employee experiences globally. I'm looking forward to contributing to this journey.”

Nicola Thompson

Non Executive Director

(Formerly CEO MADE.com)

Formerly COO and then CEO at MADE.com, Nicola brings a passion for technology and solving complex business challenges. “I've always believed in the impact of businesses that address real-world issues,” says Thompson. “The fervour of the SHAPE team for enhancing organisational understanding of employee experience struck me. “Data alone doesn't suffice; insightful analysis and actionable feedback are critical to success. SHAPE offers a novel solution to this Employee Experience Paradox. I'm eager to contribute to SHAPE's journey by drawing on my experiences in building and scaling businesses.”

Craig Moss

EVP, Ethisphere

Craig is also Executive Board Member at the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors Inc. (APSCA), Director, Cyber Readiness Institute and Director Digital Supply Chain Institute. He is celebrated for his accomplishments in compliance and risk management. Moss' expertise is rooted in formulating programs that drive companies and their supply chains to evaluate and enhance their ESG and compliance endeavours. “I have devoted many years to developing 'measure and improve' programs to enhance compliance and ESG maturity, on topics including social compliance, cybersecurity, DEI, and mental health in the workplace” says Moss. “I’m thrilled to work with SHAPE and apply its unique approach to influencing human behaviour to create cultures that reduce compliance risks and enhance the performance of individuals and organisations."

Doug Hudson

Managing Partner, Braxton Capital

Doug brings depth in strategy, M&A, and corporate transformations. As someone who fully comprehends SHAPE’s inherent value through science, Doug adds “Working with SHAPE’s leadership was an easy decision to make. Their unique approach to human capital management sets them apart from typical employee engagement platforms. “Their data is an accelerant to empowering new business models and propositions while delivering a distinct advantage to HR leaders and strategists. At the same time what really differentiates SHAPE is its appeal to CEOs and its goal to boost corporate and team productivity thereby leading to greater ROI. In a market hungry for such a growth catalyst, I see an exceptional opportunity for SHAPE.”

About SHAPE SHAPE is the employee experience measurement company. Our mission is to help employees and companies flourish. Encompassing all the workplace topics in one succinct survey, SHAPE is the System for Health, Attendance, Productivity and Engagement. It helps companies evolve to support the ‘Total Well-being’ of their employees. Powered by statistical, clinical and behavioural science, SHAPE’s intuitive, self-serve, platform with its advanced insights allows organisations of any size to survey and support employees, managers and executives with powerful personal, team and company reporting. SHAPE helps everyone find their focus to flourish in every facet of their work.

For media enquiries, please contact:

Ghanwa Jahangir
+44 113 350 1786
press@shapepowered.com