From What Works Psychology
What makes people great?
I've spent my career answering that question with elite athletes and high performers. Now I'm inviting the people who build businesses to answer it about themselves: to understand what makes you great, and how to be even better.
Judgement·Drive·Risk·Recovery·Self-belief·Adaptability
Why I'm asking
The Human Factor
The most important thing investors look for is the people. It's also the least understood. This is an endeavour to understand what makes people great in business, so you can close the gap for yourself.
Who's asking
Dr Henry
I'm a clinical psychologist, trained in the NHS, with a career-long interest in sport and performance. I've since honed that work at the elite level, with professional football and rugby teams, Olympic programmes, and leaders in the corporate world.
What connects all of it is one question: what are the human factors that make people great, and how do they interact with the environment around them? This is my attempt to answer it properly, in business, with the people living it.
The invitation
An hour of your story. A psychologist's read in return.
No cost. No script. No pitch. A conversation about how you built what you built, and what it reveals about you.
The conversation
Your decisions, examined
Around an hour on the moments that mattered: the risks you took, the calls you made under uncertainty, the setbacks and what they cost.
What you take away
What makes you effective
A clear, psychologically grounded articulation of your strengths as a leader. Often things you've never had named before.
And then
Where the edges are
The factors that might be holding the next level back. Yours to act on, reflect on, or simply take away. Entirely up to you.
For those who want more
Consultancy, for the few who want to go further.
Some conversations end with a handshake. Others become ongoing work: applying performance psychology to you, your team, and the people you bet on.
It starts with a conversation.
If you've built a business, at any stage and any scale, tell me a little about it below and I'll be in touch.