Modern Life Skills Academy

See the risk before it costs you.

Our diagnostic shows you where the hidden risks sit in your workforce, then delivers personalised learning to fix them — before they become productivity, absence and retention problems.

The diagnostic

Baseline

See people risk before it shows up in your numbers.

What it does

A comprehensive assessment that every employee completes. It measures nine human capability pillars and gives your organisation, and each department within it, a Human Capability Index™ score. Results are reported at group level only, so individual answers stay anonymous.

The problem

For your people

People are struggling long before anyone notices.

964,000
UK workers actively suffering from work-related stress, depression, or anxiety.HSE, 2024/25
409,000
new cases in a single year — up 36% on the year before.HSE, 2024/25

Most of it stays hidden until it arrives as a fit note or a resignation.

For your business

You’re paying for it before it shows in your numbers.

£24bn
a year lost to presenteeism — the largest share of the £51bn poor mental health costs UK employers.Deloitte, 2024
22.1M
working days lost to work-related stress, depression and anxiety.HSE, 2024/25

Absence and turnover are lagging indicators. By the time they move, the cost is already sunk.

Regulators are watching too. In December 2025, HSE issued a Notice of Contravention to a UK university for failing to manage work-related stress — its risk assessment was too generic to identify higher-risk roles.

How Baseline solves it

  1. Burnout risk, by department

    TodayYou find out about burnout from a fit note or a resignation.

    With BaselineEach department shows its share of people at Green, Amber and Red risk. You see pressure building in a department months earlier — while it’s still a conversation, not a case.

  2. A leading indicator, not a lagging one

    TodayAbsence and turnover data tell you what went wrong last quarter.

    With BaselineNine pillars measure the everyday behaviours behind wellbeing and performance now, and flag the teams least likely to speak up.

  3. Risk and need, by department

    TodayTraining is spread across the whole catalogue, with no clear view of where the risk sits.

    With BaselineA Human Capability Index™ for the organisation and each department shows which pillars are weakest and where the risks are building — so the right training reaches the departments that need it most.

  4. Honest answers, board-ready insight

    TodayRisk assessments are generic and people hold back in surveys.

    With BaselineGroup-level reporting with a minimum group size gets honest answers, and your Organisational Insight Report pinpoints the higher-risk teams.

What Baseline measures

Nine pillars. One clear picture.

Each pillar is a set of everyday behaviours that shape how safely, healthily and effectively people work. Select a pillar to see what it covers.

Wellbeing &BurnoutAttention &FocusLearningReadinessWorkplaceEnvironmentLife Skills &PersonalEffectivenessCommunication &CollaborationLeadership &InfluenceEquity &InclusionPhysicalWellbeing 9 PillarsBaseline
  • Wellbeing & Burnout

    Energy, recovery and boundaries, and how pressure is affecting people day to day.

  • Attention & Focus

    Concentration, recovering from interruptions, prioritising and managing digital noise.

  • Learning Readiness

    Openness to change, ownership of development and confidence with the unfamiliar.

  • Workplace Environment

    Support, role clarity, resources, workload and psychological safety.

  • Life Skills & Personal Effectiveness

    Time management, follow-through, decision-making and self-awareness.

  • Communication & Collaboration

    Clear communication, listening, handling conflict and working across difference.

  • Leadership & Influence

    Influencing without authority, developing others and leading through change.

  • Equity & Inclusion

    The everyday behaviours that make fair treatment and belonging real.

  • Physical Wellbeing

    The physical health habits that underpin energy and performance.

The next step

Baseline+

From knowing to improving.

What it does

Everything in Baseline, plus a live leadership dashboard and CPD-accredited learning matched to each person’s results. As people complete their learning, their scores refresh, so you can see change as it happens.

The next problem

For your people

The right support isn’t reaching the right people.

Only half
of organisations tackling stress believe their efforts actually work.CIPD Health & Wellbeing at Work, 2025
29%
of organisations train line managers in mental health.CIPD Health & Wellbeing at Work, 2025

Generic programmes and under-equipped managers mean help rarely lands where it’s needed.

For your business

You can’t prove the spend is working.

£53bn
spent by UK employers on training in a single year.DfE Employer Skills Survey, 2024
1 in 2
L&D teams have a process for assessing whether learning had any impact.CIPD Learning at Work, 2023

How Baseline+ solves it

  1. Learning matched to each person

    TodayEveryone gets the same training, whether they need it or not.

    With Baseline+Through their own dashboard, each person is matched to CPD-accredited courses for the pillars they scored lowest on — individual targeting that only Baseline+ provides.

  2. Managers who know what to do

    TodayManagers come to HR asking what to do, not just what’s wrong.

    With Baseline+Manager dashboards show team capability, burnout risk and early signals, with 1:1 conversation prompts.

  3. Impact you can evidence

    TodayYou can report completions — not whether anything changed.

    With Baseline+Scores refresh as learning is completed, with no re-survey, showing which learning moved which result, for which team.

  4. Audit-ready evidence

    TodayProof of what you’ve done is spread across spreadsheets and suppliers.

    With Baseline+Assessments, completions and CPD hours are captured automatically — an evidence trail for compliance audits, in line with ISO 45003 guidance on psychosocial risk.

One continuous cycle

Insight on its own doesn’t change anything.

  1. Understand

    Baseline shows where capability is strong and where risk is building.

  2. Develop

    Each person is matched to CPD-accredited courses for the pillars they need most.

  3. Enable

    Manager and executive dashboards show leaders where to step in and what’s working.

  4. Measure

    Scores refresh as learning is completed, without re-running the assessment.

Every refresh feeds the next round of understanding, so the cycle never stands still.

Five business challenges

Five business challenges. One connected approach.

  1. 01

    Compliance and Organisational Risk

    Identify emerging workforce risks, strengthen oversight, support proactive decisions.

    Learn more about Compliance and Organisational Risk
  2. 02

    Learning & Development Economics

    Find capability gaps, prioritise spend, strengthen evidence for L&D investment.

    Learn more about Learning & Development Economics
  3. 03

    Individualisation

    Move beyond generic training to the needs of individuals.

    Learn more about Individualisation
  4. 04

    Wellbeing and Human Capability

    Spot factors affecting resilience, engagement and productivity early.

    Learn more about Wellbeing and Human Capability
  5. 05

    Organisational Intelligence

    Anonymised workforce insight informs strategy and sets measurable priorities.

    Learn more about Organisational Intelligence