Human performance consultancy · Built by a former CPO
Imagine if you could see exactly where your best people are drifting, and bring them back to thriving, before it ever became a resignation.
There's a measurable gap between how your people perform and how they are built to. We're the ones who measure it, the drift no one else is naming, and we bring your best people back to their best.
- Former CPO
- Head of People, M&S Clothing and Home
- FTSE 100 and PE backed
- EMCC accredited
- British Triathlon coach
The work I do and who it is for
One diagnostic. Three ways I bring your people back to their best.
Every engagement starts with the Drift Index, so the work is built on what your people are actually depleted by rather than a guess.
For Teams
Built around resilience, overcoming adversity and unlocking potential, adapted to the audience, whether that is analytical types, creative designers or high pressure buying teams. Series 1 and Series 2 available, each building on the last.
Right for you ifYour people are working hard but running on empty, and you want to give them something tangible that enables them to perform at their best.
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For Leaders
You spend your days reading everyone else's performance. This is the coaching that reads yours. We work on the patterns, assumptions and blind spots that are harder to see from the inside, grounded in the performance science behind the Drift Index. You leave with your specific performance picture and a structured path through it.
Right for you ifYou hold the whole people function together, and you know your own drift has gone unmeasured for too long.
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For Audiences
Talks on human performance, the lessons sport brings to work, and performing well in an AI-accelerated world. Grounded, practical, built from two decades at the sharp end of people and business.
Right for you ifYou want a session that gives people something they will still use on Monday.
Explore speaking →Selected HR advisory support is also available alongside these engagements.
The numbers
What happens when you decide to do something meaningful.
The reach of the work so far, and then one engagement in detail.
people through the Human Performance Programme across three separate engagements
months, the length of the longest engagement, working with 144 designers across six business units
A culture transformation story.
144 designers. 6 business units. No shared identity, no unified culture, and engagement trending below company average on every measure. No budget. No team. No mandate.
The insight that made it possible was listening first, then building the intervention to match what was actually there.
Measured results from this engagement
engagement, from 7 points below company average to 13 points above
belonging gap closed entirely
survey participation, up from 69%
said they had seen positive change
"The Drift Index is brilliant, genuinely. So many people are burning out, and this helps organisations get ahead of it."
Suzie · HR Director, Engineering and Construction"Insight like this is rare and genuinely useful for us. Thought-provoking work, and Hayley's experience is invaluable."
Keith · Group Manager, Fire and Rescue Service"The report strikes a balance between accessible and thought-provoking. We are booking this for our team."
Michelle · Operations Director, Legal Services
Recovery is not the opposite of performance. It is the engine of it.
The Drift Index
Start with the diagnostic. Not a verdict, a map.
Most people and most teams are performing well below how they are built to. Most never name why. We do.
A science-backed diagnostic built to measure how far a person or a team has drifted from how they are built to perform, across five levers the neuroscience says actually determine how well we think, decide and lead.
Under three minutes. Free to take. It is where every piece of work I do begins.
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When in the day your brain is built to do its hardest work.
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The default mode network. The state where insight and processing happen.
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The night-time engine that consolidates memory and clears metabolic waste.
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Exercise releases BDNF, which literally grows new brain cells.
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Twenty minutes outside measurably lowers cortisol.
The thinking behind it
Built to do the work that matters most.
I built Inspired Intentions because I kept seeing the same thing. High potential, high performing people quietly operating well below what they are capable of, and businesses absorbing the cost of it without ever naming what had happened. Your best people rarely leave loudly. They drift, a degree at a time, still hitting the numbers, right up to the resignation no one saw coming.
Drift is almost never a talent problem. It is what happens when capable people run for long enough without the conditions that let them think clearly, decide well and lead others. Restore those conditions and the person comes back to their best. So does the performance the business was already paying for.
I am Hayley Standen. Twenty years in senior HR leadership across FTSE 100, private equity backed and founder led businesses, including Chief People Officer roles and Head of People for Clothing and Home at Marks and Spencer. Transformation coach, triathlete and British Triathlon coach.
More about HayleyNot sure where to start?
Book a discovery call. Thirty minutes, no obligation, and you will leave with a clearer view of the problem whether or not we work together.