Research and Insights

State of the Heart: Burnout, resilience and the importance of truly sustainable leadership In their 2024 State of the Heart report, Six Seconds revealed a sobering picture of the global workforce – a picture of rising stress, burnout and disengagement since the pandemic, and a fall in emotional intelligence in the workplace. In order to […]

State of the Heart: Is connecting more via technology harming our emotional resilience? In their 2024 State of the Heart report, Six Seconds revealed a sharp decline in global emotional intelligence and a rise in burnout and disengagement at work since the pandemic. While the reasons for these findings are many, one that can’t be […]

State of the Heart: Vertical leadership development – a pathway to reversing our emotional intelligence decline Last year, Six Seconds released their 2024 State of the Heart Report and with it, their findings that the global workforce has been struggling for several years now. Since 2020, global emotional intelligence, resilience and wellbeing have been in […]

State of the Heart: leadership’s role in reversing the decline in emotional intelligence The global workforce is struggling. That’s what Six Seconds found when they published their annual State of the Heart report in 2024. Working across 169 countries, Six Seconds found that the emotional intelligence of employees – their capacity to meet, navigate and […]