Investors in People

Most organisations say their people are their greatest asset.

Fewer can prove it. Not because the investment is not there, but because most of the evidence is internal. Self-reported surveys. Internally designed frameworks. Data produced by the same team it is measuring.

It is not that the data is wrong. It is that it is discountable. And in boardrooms, in procurement decisions, in ESG reporting, discountable evidence does not carry the weight it needs to.

Investors in People has spent 35 years helping organisations close that gap. Our practitioners sit alongside your people, produce independent evidence of how your organisation leads, supports and develops them, and give you a structured roadmap to keep improving.

Over 3,000 organisations. 1.1 million employees. All publicly committed to investing in their people and able to prove it.

Start your journey at https://hubs.la/Q04nlB3H0

Jake Humphrey has spent his career close to high performance.

From the touchlines of the Premier League to the cockpit of Formula 1, he has watched what separates teams that win from teams that should. And the answer, almost always, comes back to people.

At Make Work Better on 8 September, Jake will be exploring what genuine high performance looks like inside organisations and why trust is the foundation everything else is built on.

If you lead people, or support the people who do, this is a conversation worth being in the room for.

Secure your place at Make Work Better.

Tickets at https://hubs.la/Q04nlb6l0

12 reasons leading organisations choose Investors in People.

From leadership capability to independent evidence, here is what the research says: https://hubs.la/Q04n1DYV0

Employee engagement is talked about constantly and measured inconsistently.

The organisations that get it right know that engagement is not a survey score. It is the result of deliberate, sustained investment in the conditions that allow people to do their best work.

85% of organisations accredited with Investors in People report improved employee engagement. Not because accreditation is a magic formula, but because it gives organisations the structure and the independent perspective to understand what is actually driving engagement and what is holding it back.

The Award for Employee Engagement recognises the organisations doing this work seriously.

Enter the Award for Employee Engagement at https://hubs.la/Q04ntgWP0

Health and wellbeing at work looks different in every organisation.

For some it starts with mental health support. For others it is about physical safety, or creating space for people to talk honestly about how they are doing. For many, it is all of the above.

What the best organisations share is not a particular programme or policy. It is a genuine commitment to understanding what their people need and building around it.

The Award for Health and Wellbeing is for organisations that have made that commitment real.

If yours is one of them, your story deserves to be told. Entries close 4 September.

Enter The Investors in People Awards 2026 at https://hubs.la/Q04nKYK70

There is a particular kind of frustration that a lot of HR leaders know well.

You have done the work. You have the engagement data, the retention figures, and the feedback from your managers. Your people strategy is delivering. You know it. Your team knows it.

But when you take that evidence into a leadership meeting, it arrives as assertion. Self-reported. Internally produced. Discountable by anyone in the room who wants to discount it.
Investors in People exists to close that gap.

Not by telling your board what to think, but by giving you independent, multi-source evidence that they cannot argue with. Evidence produced by a practitioner who has spoken to your people, reviewed how your organisation actually works, and benchmarked you against a globally recognised standard.

Your people strategy deserves independent proof that it delivers.

Find out what that looks like: https://hubs.la/Q04ntm1b0

August is coming. If Make Work Better has been on your radar and you have not yet booked, now is the time.

The conference returns on 8 September at Kings Place, London. CPD certified. Five speakers. A day built around the conversations that matter most to HR and people leaders right now.

Tickets are available. September comes around quickly.

Secure your place before the summer break at https://hubs.la/Q04ntrZt0.

84% of organisations say they prioritise employee wellbeing.

Only 41% have a formal wellbeing strategy.

That gap between intention and structure is where most wellbeing efforts quietly fade. Leaders mean well. Initiatives get launched. But without a framework to build on, it stays at the level of gesture rather than culture.

We Invest in Wellbeing gives organisations the structure to move from good intentions to genuine, independently verified commitment.

It is not about adding more to an already full agenda. It is about making what you are already doing more deliberate, more measurable, and more meaningful for your people.

FInd out how: https://bit.ly/4oXBboF

What does an Investors in People practitioner actually do?
They do not arrive with a checklist. They do not send out a survey and score the results.

They spend time with your people. They hold conversations at every level of your organisation. They look at how decisions get made, how feedback flows, how leadership shows up in practice.

And then they produce something your board cannot get from internal data: independent, multi-source evidence of where your organisation actually stands, and a clear roadmap for where to go next.

The practitioner relationship is, consistently, the thing our clients say makes the biggest difference.

Find out what an Investors in People Accreditation consists of: https://hubs.la/Q04ntdkX0

Culture is one of those words that can mean everything or nothing, depending on who is using it.

For the organisations we work with, culture is not a values statement on a wall. It is the lived experience of every person who works there. It shows up in how decisions get made, how feedback is given, how mistakes are handled.

The Award for Best Culture recognises organisations that have moved culture from aspiration to reality.

If that sounds like yours, we would love to hear your story for this years, The Investors in People Awards https://hubs.la/Q04ntt960