Persyou
Michelle Smorfitt working with pupils

Your People.
Your Priorities.
Your Pathway.

Every school is different, so your approach to people development should be too.

Persyou gives you the freedom to choose the pathway that works for your organisation, building around your people, priorities and challenges.

That pathway could be a structured, whole-school journey, individual modules focused on specific needs, or a combination of both.

The goal remains the same. Meaningful development, measurable impact. Change that lasts.

Discovery

Start with understanding.

Before we recommend a pathway, we take the time to understand where you are, where you want to go and what matters most to your school community.

You can choose the level of audit that best suits your organisation - Baseline or Advanced. Whichever audit you choose, you won’t simply receive a collection of findings.

Persyou brings the evidence together into a clear Audit & Recommendations Report, outlining what we discovered, the priorities identified and the opportunities for development.

Select audit:

Establish where you are. Define where to start.

A focused assessment designed to build an evidence-based picture of your school’s current position. We identify the immediate priorities, establish an initial direction and create a practical action plan for moving forward.

The Baseline Audit is ideal for schools that want clarity on their starting point and a clear route into development.

Comprehensive review.

A deep-dive review combining evidence and data analysis, stakeholder interviews, observation and culture analysis, producing a detailed report and co-created roadmap.

The review works through five stages: evidence and data analysis, a 12-domain audit, stakeholder interviews, observation, and the final report.

The Advanced Audit is ideal for schools looking to understand their culture in depth and identify clear, practical ways to develop their people.

Modules

Your school. Your challenges. Your choice.

Our Human Futures Modules give you the flexibility to build people development around your school’s needs.

Choose individual modules, combine several, or work with Persyou to create a tailored pathway that develops the skills, behaviours and capabilities your people need for the future.

Select module:

Coaching for Impact

  • Explore what effective coaching looks like.
  • Learn practical coaching tools you can use immediately.
  • Learn how to build a strong coaching culture across your organisation.
  • Develop a tailored coaching strategy with expert guidance.
  • Drive organisation-wide impact through ICF certification or flexible online courses.

A New Kind of Dialogue

  • Understand Dialogue Practices and their impact.
  • Explore the 7 modes of dialogic engagement.
  • Develop better ways of thinking and talking together.
  • Strengthen professional relationships across your setting.
  • Use dialogue to transform classroom practice.

Teams Glued

  • Use immersive technology to build self-awareness under pressure.
  • Understand and value different perspectives.
  • Flex your behaviour for greater impact.
  • Strengthen collaboration and team performance.
  • Build stronger, more effective teams.

HR Talent Development

  • Diagnose and close gaps in your people strategy.
  • Attract, develop and retain top talent.
  • Strengthen collaboration and break down siloes.
  • Optimise staff and teacher wellbeing.
  • Create a 90-day people roadmap aligned to your school strategy.

Resilience in Action

  • Diagnose resilience in students and staff.
  • Build confidence, resilience and emotional regulation.
  • Strengthen communication and collaboration.
  • Foster positive mindsets and supportive relationships.
  • Boost engagement, productivity and retention.
  • Navigate change and challenge with a data-informed resilience strategy.

Executive Coaching

  • In-person and online sessions from professional coaches
  • Understand how to lead with clarity and confidence.
  • Make better decisions and navigate challenge with resilience.
  • Strengthen leadership impact, build trust and influence.

AI-Powered Leadership

Use on-demand coaching chatbots to:

  • Provide wide access to leadership support
  • Increase goal attainment by 10%.
  • Boost self-efficacy by 5% after one session.
  • Strengthen self-reflection and decision-making.
  • Build confidence, momentum and action

The Power of Groups

  • Understand the power of group coaching.
  • Facilitate engaging and inclusive sessions.
  • Navigate group dynamics with confidence.
  • Create meaningful outcomes for participants.

Working Systematically

  • Explore how relationships and teams shape behaviour.
  • Recognise patterns, roles and hidden dynamics in your team.
  • Understand systemic relationships and perspectives through mapping.
  • Use practical tools to support positive change for you and your teams.

Physical Intelligence

  • Connect body, mind, emotions and performance.
  • Use breath, movement and posture to manage stress and focus.
  • Develop presence, resilience and awareness.
  • Enhance wellbeing, creativity and performance.

Pupil Edge: Adolescence & Belonging (KS3)

  • Build confidence and reduce anxiety during key transitions.
  • Supports wellbeing, behaviour and readiness to learn.
  • Reduces isolation and improves attendance and engagement.
  • Builds healthy digital habits and critical thinking.

Pupil Edge: Preparing for the Future (KS5)

  • Gives pupils direction beyond qualifications.
  • Prepares pupils for changing career paths.
  • Bridges the gap between school and life beyond it.
  • Turns development into real, demonstrable experience in personal statements and interviews.

Pathways

Build change that lasts.

Our Three-Phase Accredited Human Futures Partnership is designed for ambitious schools committed to lasting, culture-wide change.

Across Fundamental, Advanced and Transformative phases, we progressively engage your community, develop your people and embed new behaviours, with clear evidence of impact at every stage.

Select phase:

Fundamental: One stakeholder group engaged

  • Strategic commitment and priority roadmap.
  • One Human Futures Module engaging one stakeholder group for minimum of two terms.
  • Evidence that purposeful practice has begun.

The outcome: strong foundations, clear direction and tangible evidence that meaningful change has begun.

Advanced: Three stakeholder groups engaged overall

  • Strategic commitment and priority roadmap.
  • One Human Futures Module with a new stakeholder group for a minimum of two terms.
  • Compulsory Pupil module and evidence of engagement with parents.
  • Evidence that purposeful practice has continued.

The outcome: Integrated practice with meaningful engagement across at least three stakeholder groups, supported by credible evidence of improved pupil outcomes.

Transformative: Five stakeholder groups engaged overall

  • Self-assessment audit.
  • Strategic commitment and priority roadmap.
  • Human Futures Modules dependent on need engaging remaining stakeholders.
  • Re-audit, impact evidence and sustainability.

The outcome: Measurable impact on pupils and culture, innovation, embedded systems, internal capability and sustainable influence.

Nicholas McKie

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