The CommuniverseSocial Wealth, by design.

Social Wealth, by design.

Social Wealth is what we strive for. Social Health becomes a natural and sustained outcome

We help leaders and organisations turn quiet disconnection into Social Health, using language and tools built on four years of applied research with 1,218 people leaders.

Shelley Doyle, founder of The Communiverse, seated in a garden with dappled light

For your organisation

How can we help you design for Social Health?

I help leaders responsible for organisational health, culture, and employee engagement to embed social health into policy, communications, and leadership behaviours, so their distributed teams feel connected, supported, and relationally resourced.

We work with HR, People, benefits and leadership teams.

For remote and relocated leaders

How can we help you design a social ecosystem that holds you through change?

I help leaders navigating relocation or remote work to intentionally design their social ecosystem with rituals that nourish and support them, so they can feel more socially wealthy and relationally resourced in this new chapter.

We even have templates to help you get budget signed off to cover your training.

Why this matters

The Social Wealth Continuum

When connection is designed for, people have more of what makes work sustainable: trust, support, collaboration and belonging. Social Wealth is measurable, teachable and scalable.

Your social ecosystem is the hybrid community that shapes your human experience. It includes your inner circle of 5 to 15 relationships, the individuals you share your life with (personal and professional), the groups you belong to, and the places and spaces you gather.

  1. 01Loneliness emerges when there is a gap between your social needs and your lived reality.
  2. 02Social Health is experienced when your inner circle is identified and prioritised.
  3. 03Social Wealth is felt when your whole social ecosystem is activated and sustained.

When your social ecosystem is activated and aligned, Social Health strengthens across life and work.

Most leaders leave this to chance. We make it intentional.

Our language

Social Wealth

The feeling that emerges when our relationships are activated in ways that meet our social needs.

Activation

Turning available social capital into felt connection.

Rituals

The recurring, intentional connections that sustain our social health, when life and work get busy.

The evidence

We built this work from research and lived experience.

We explain what the research found, what is still being tested, and what leaders can do next.

29%

of people leaders reported loneliness sometimes or often in the study.

Despite access to vast personal and professional networks, 29% of people leaders reported loneliness, revealing an activation gap: the point at which social capital exists, but is not yet experienced as social benefit.

Doyle, 2025.

US$4,200

Cigna (2020): approximately US$4,200 per lonely employee per year in lost productivity and absenteeism.

£2.5bn

UK Government analysis (DCMS, 2021): approximately £2.5 billion per year to UK employers, with staff turnover accounting for the majority of it.

These figures provide context for the opportunity to design for Social Health. They are attributed estimates, not a forecast of any individual organisation's costs.

Know your number. Then decide what to do about it.

What participants say

What participants say

“I now understand how small, consistent actions build stronger relationships and a healthier mindset. Lessons I have carried into my work and my team.”

Hybrid Leader

“I have become far more deliberate about reaching out to my network. I spend less time scrolling, more time connecting, and I feel more supported at work and at home.”

Expat Leader

“This programme helped me prioritise the people who genuinely restore my energy, and to invest more time in relationships that matter.”

Senior Remote Leader

Speaking

We bring the research into the room.

We speak internationally on Social Health, Social Wealth and the future of work.

Recent engagements include TEDxVictoria Salon, DisruptHR YVR and CPHR BC and Yukon. We bring evidence, practical language and lived experience to conversations about how people feel connected and supported at work.

See speaking engagements
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Social Health in Professional Leadership

We built a 12-week professional pathway for the people responsible for organisational health, culture and employee engagement. It gives you language and practices for making relational risk visible and useful.

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Research briefings and workshops

We bring research and practical tools into leadership, People, benefits and employee engagement conversations, so teams can design for Social Health in the way work actually happens.

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Social Wealth Activation

We guide individual leaders through a twelve-week practice to notice their social needs, map their social ecosystem and design Rituals that resource them.

A place to begin

Your social ecosystem is already at work. We can help you design it on purpose.

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