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About Georgina Woodley
Insight Strategist | Human Energy Intelligence
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.
Georgina also founded The Transformation Initiative, bringing together evidence-informed approaches that help organisations unlock greater human capacity, wellbeing and performance.
She often describes her journey simply: "I've spent twenty years measuring what organisations can see. Now I'm interested in helping them understand what they can't."
She holds an MBA from AGSM at UNSW Business School.
On podcasts, Georgina challenges conventional thinking about leadership, culture, employee experience and customer experience. She leaves audiences with a fresh perspective on the invisible human drivers of organisational performance and practical ways leaders can begin seeing what traditional business metrics often miss.
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Human Energy Intelligence: measuring the drivers of performance that dashboards miss
Businesses have never had more data. They measure financial performance, customer satisfaction, employee engagement and operational efficiency with increasing sophistication. But what if the most…
POPULARReduced Human Capacity: how stress and cognitive load precede visible underperformance
When organisations talk about performance, they often focus on strategy, capability and execution. But what happens when the people responsible for delivering that strategy are operating with reduced…
Joy as an Organisational Signal: reading capacity rather than measuring happiness
For too long, joy has been treated as a personal emotion or a wellbeing initiative rather than a strategic business signal. Georgina Woodley argues that joy isn't simply the outcome of a great…
Telling Depletion Apart From Disengagement: what to check before judging a capable person's drop in output
Georgina Woodley spent more than 20 years measuring how people behave inside large organisations, and kept meeting the same misread: a capable person whose output drops is handled as a performance…
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