Why FLAME
The case for acting now.
Human capacity is under strain at exactly the moment we need it most. These aren't edge cases — they describe the average modern workplace.
US$0.0 trillion
lost to disengagement every year
Only 21% of employees are engaged at work. Gallup prices the cost of the other 79% at roughly 9% of global GDP.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace
0%
of core job skills will change by 2030
Employers now rank resilience, flexibility and agility among the top skills for the years ahead — right beside analytical thinking.
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025
0%
of adults worldwide feel lonely
The WHO now treats loneliness as a global health threat. Among 19–29-year-olds the figure rises to 27%.
Meta-Gallup, 142 countries · WHO
0 in 10
would earn less for more meaningful work
On average, people would trade 23% of their future earnings — about US$21,000 a year — for work that always feels meaningful.
BetterUp · Harvard Business Review
0 billion
working days lost to depression and anxiety, every year
301 million people live with anxiety and 280 million with depression — costing the global economy US$1 trillion annually.
WHO · ILO
0 seconds
of average attention on any one screen
Down from two and a half minutes in 2004 — and every switch costs far more time than the interruption itself.
Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine
0%
of employees report burnout symptoms
Consistent across all fifteen countries studied. Exposure to toxic workplace behaviour makes burnout eight times more likely.
McKinsey Health Institute
From our own research
0 in 4
people who put family first are too depleted to be present for them
Across 9,656 people in our Global Values Report, values clarity is high — family is the world's #1 value in every generation and country measured. But 40.6% of the people who choose it are exhausted, and 49.6% are disconnected from the present moment. We call this the Values-Living Gap: knowing what matters and having the capacity to live it are different things.
The part that matters
None of this is fixed. Every one of these is trainable.
Disengagement, disconnection, distraction, depletion — these read like separate problems, but they share one root: human capacity that hasn't kept pace with the demands placed on it. That's not a character flaw in your people. It's a training gap — and closing it is precisely what FLAME was built for.
One answer, five dimensions
Each crisis has a counterpart.
Disconnection
Belonging
Connection, trust and psychological safety — rebuilt deliberately.
Meaninglessness
Purpose
Meaning and values made usable — decision fuel, not poster words.
Accelerating change
Agility
The capacity to update — trained, not hoped for.
Fractured focus
Mindset
The predictive brain, understood and steered.
Burnout
Vitality
Recovery, rhythm and the body budget that funds everything else.
Measured by the FLAME assessment. Trained through keynotes, workshops and programmes. See the assessment →
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