How Businesses Will Measure Human Energy at Scale

Measuring Human Energy at Scale: why the once-a-year engagement survey lands out of date, and what a continuous read would show a board

Georgina Woodley spent more than 20 years building the measurement systems large Australian organisations run on, including 13 years as Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand at BVA BDRC, and she expects most of those instruments to look crude within a decade. Her argument is that the annual engagement survey samples a mood once a year while the human forces that actually move decisions, creativity and collaboration shift week to week, so the data lands already out of date. Through Human Energy Intelligence and its first application, the Joy-O-Meter, she is testing what a continuous read on human capacity looks like inside a business and what a board would do differently if it had one. She sets out which data organisations already hold, what still has to be built, and where the measurement breaks. Leaders hear what to start collecting now, before the market settles the standard for them.

About Georgina Woodley

Georgina Woodley, podcast guest

Insight Strategist | Human Energy Intelligence

20+ years Customer insight and organisational performance3-part ecosystem Custology Insights, Joy-O-Meter and TTIMBA AGSM at UNSW Business SchoolChief Insights Officer Custology Insights

Human Energy Intelligence/ Organisational/ Performance Leadership/ Customer Experience

Georgina Woodley is an insight strategist in the emerging field of Human Energy Intelligence—a business framework for understanding how the invisible human factors inside organisations influence performance, leadership, customer experience and business outcomes.

After more than two decades leading customer insight and market research for some of Australia's largest organisations, Georgina began questioning a fundamental assumption: what if organisations are measuring performance outcomes while remaining blind to the human forces creating them? That question became the foundation of her work.

Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in consulting, market research and customer psychology—including Deloitte Consulting, Managing Director ANZ for BVA BDRC, and now as Chief Insights Officer of Custology Insights—Georgina combines rigorous business research with a fresh perspective on organisational performance.

Her work explores how human state influences decision-making, creativity, collaboration and innovation, arguing that performance is not just driven by strategy—it is driven by the state of the people executing it.

This thinking led Georgina to develop Human Energy Intelligence, a business framework for understanding the invisible human drivers of organisational performance. Its first application, Joy-O-Meter, is a methodology designed to help organisations measure and better understand those invisible human dynamics.

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Boosting manufacturing outcomes by understanding human energy, with Georgina Woodley of Custology Insights
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