Inspired Intentions · Human Performance
The Drift Index
Find out how far you have drifted from how you were built to perform and start finding your way back.
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Your first Drift Index is free. Under 3 minutes.
Inspired Intentions · Human Performance
Find out how far you have drifted from how you were built to perform and start finding your way back.
What drift is
When we eat. When we sleep. When we move. When we focus. None of it is accidental, and none of it is irreversible.
But most of us have drifted so far from what our brains actually need to perform that we have stopped noticing the cost. You feel it in the decisions that take three coffees to make. The afternoons where everything you read slides off your brain. The Sunday-night dread of a Monday calendar built without a window to actually think.
That is drift: the gap between where you are performing now and where you are truly capable of performing. Not a failure of talent or effort. A failure of conditions. And the further you drift, the more visible it becomes.
What the Drift Index measures
The five the neuroscience says actually determine how well you think, decide, create and lead. The Drift Index is the proprietary, science-backed diagnostic built around them.
When in the day your brain is built to do its hardest work. Most people schedule their toughest thinking in their worst windows.
The default mode network. The state where insight, connection and processing happen. The thing back-to-back meetings systematically destroy.
The non-negotiable foundation. The night-time engine that consolidates memory, regulates emotion, and clears metabolic waste from your brain.
Not optional. Exercise releases a protein called BDNF that literally grows new brain cells. People who move, think better.
Twenty minutes outside measurably lowers cortisol. Green space activates the only state where genuine recovery happens.
How it works
You answer honestly, for where you are now and not where you would like to be. The insight is only as honest as the answers.
Answer twenty-one short questions across the five levers. No sign-up needed to begin.
Get a personalised Drift Score, a written interpretation of what your pattern means right now, and a five-lever profile.
One calibrated starting step for each lever, based on where you actually are.
Choose a lever, follow the stepping stones, and re-measure. Watch your drift close, one habit at a time.
What you get
You leave with a clear picture of where your performance is being depleted, and one honest step to take next. Here is what that looks like.
Your weakest lever right now. Movement is the one most likely to be quietly draining the others. The good news is it is also the fastest to shift.
Left as it is, this is the lever costing you focus by mid-afternoon and patience by the evening.
Add one ten-minute walk after lunch, outside, no phone. Not for fitness. For the thinking that happens on the way back.
A sample result. Yours is built from your own answers.
Seeing your drift is the start. Closing it is the Drift Reset.
Your score, your five-lever profile, and one honest step to start. A clear picture of where you stand right now.
A guided plan that takes one lever at a time and hands you the next stepping stone only when you are ready. A rhythm that makes the habits stick. And a re-measure every cycle, so you watch your score climb instead of hoping for change.
The first one is free.
What people say
"It personally attacked me, in a good way."
Michelle · Operations Director, Legal Services
"I've never given this any real consideration. The lever by lever analysis and advice for ways to improve performance is really well written and very easy to follow."
Scott · Managing Director
"If you're looking for a tool that creates self awareness and gives people a language for understanding how they operate, I'd highly recommend it."
Sam · Customer Success Support Manager, Technology
The science
The Drift Index is informed by the published research of:
The Drift Index draws on their published work. It does not claim their endorsement.
Why I built it
I have spent two decades working with leaders. The pattern is consistent. The people most depleted by their working lives are rarely the unmotivated ones or the ones who do not care enough. They are the most committed. The ones who give everything they have. The ones who think a difficult quarter just means working harder.
I built the Drift Index because the answer is almost never "work harder." It is "recover better." But recovery only happens when you can see exactly where your performance is being depleted, and what to do about it. The Drift Index makes that visible.
But seeing it is only the start. This is about optimising recovery so you can perform at your absolute best and feel good while you do it. The Drift Index is built to give you the stepping stones, one at a time, to find your way back.
An experienced senior HR leader at Rapha Racing, M&S and Tesco. The Drift Index is her proprietary five-lever diagnostic and the differentiator behind every Human Performance programme she runs.
This worked on me first
Are you waking up tired? Needing a nap to get through the afternoon? Reaching for a third coffee just to think clearly? Telling yourself this is simply what happens as you get older?
I was too. For years I woke up tired and assumed it was just age. It was not. I had drifted, slowly, from almost everything my brain and body needed. Like most of us, I had stopped noticing.
When I rebuilt those five levers, one habit at a time, everything changed. I stopped needing an alarm. I wake up ready. I train at dawn, chase my primary-school children around, lead a team, run a coaching business and run clubs. And I still have capacity left over. I feel at the top of my game.
This is not willpower and it is not luck. It is rhythm. It is what happens when you stop drifting and start rebuilding the conditions you were built to perform in. The Drift Index is the map I wish I had then. The Drift Reset is how you walk it.
Hayley Standen. Founder of the Drift Index.
Take the Drift IndexThe bigger picture
Each assessment, fully anonymised, helps us understand where modern work is depleting human performance, so we know where people most need support to thrive. When you take it, you find out where you stand. You also help build the picture of what is happening to all of us.
For teams and organisations
The Drift Index is the proprietary diagnostic I use with the leadership teams I work with directly. When I run a corporate Human Performance day, every attendee takes their Drift Index in advance. I see the aggregate drift pattern of the team, and the session is built around the actual depletion they are sharing. Not generic wellbeing content. Their actual drift, addressed in the room.
Aggregated, anonymised insight into how a team's cognitive and physical resources are actually being used.
Workshops embed the skills to read and act on the drift pattern within a team.
Tangible recommendations tied to research-backed levers. Not a wellbeing programme.
Available as a half-day or full-day workshop. In person or remote.
What it costs
The full diagnostic. Your score, your five-lever profile, and one calibrated step per lever. No card needed.
Measure again whenever you want a fresh read. Pay as you go, one retake at a time.
Unlimited retakes, your full history and trend, and the deeper habit work behind each lever.
Free tells you what is true. Paid helps you change it.
Questions
Yes. Your first Drift Index is free and needs no card and no account to begin. You only pay if you choose to retake it or move into the Drift Reset Programme.
Under three minutes. Twenty-one questions across the five levers, then your results.
Your individual responses stay private. We use anonymised, aggregated patterns to understand what is depleting human performance at scale. Nothing identifies you, and nothing is sold.
Hayley Standen, an experienced senior HR leader, under her brand Inspired Intentions. The Drift Index is grounded in published neuroscience and built from two decades of working with leaders.
Yes. A single retake is £5, or the Drift Reset Programme gives you unlimited retakes, your full history and the habit work, for £15 a year.
Recovery is not the opposite of performance. It is the engine of it.
The people who will thrive in an AI-accelerated world are not the ones who use it to work longer. They are the ones who use the time it gives back to think clearer, recover better, and show up as the most capable version of themselves. The Drift Index is where that starts.
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