A research and advisory body for human resilience.
Government, regulators and major programmes all call human resilience critical, then leave it unmeasured and unbudgeted. When a programme fails, the technical and process layers were usually sound. The human layer was not.
Human resilience is the capacity to stay creative, purposeful and connected under pressure. WILD measures it, develops it through learning built into the work, and builds each organisation's capacity to sustain it themselves.
Three things make WILD different from every body working in this space.
A research body, not a vendor
We lead with a published record, not a service offer. The record is what licenses the argument.
We measure what others discuss
Many bodies analyse and develop organisational adaptive capacity. WILD measures it, with a validated instrument.
We build capability that lasts
Through accreditation, your people hold the method long after we step back. You stay empowered, and we simply become less central.
CLARA measures eight dimensions of human adaptive capacity.
A psychometrically validated diagnostic, designed on Professor Ruth Deakin Crick's twenty-six years of research. We present it as research infrastructure, not a product.
CLARA, your learning companion.
We are uniquely tuning generative AI to augment the end-to-end learning journey, not to replace the human judgement at its centre, but to help each person make sense of a complex system and their place within it.
CLARA travels with the learner, holding the evidence of the decisions they make along the way. The same journey that develops the individual produces the evidence that informs performance management and evaluation.
Meet CLARA, your learning companion →Rapid feedback of data, at every level of the system.
Self-directed change depends on people seeing their own data quickly. WILD returns rapid feedback at every level, so each level can adapt itself, rather than wait to be changed from above.
See yourself, adjust
Read your own learning data as you go, and change your next decision without waiting for a review cycle.
Self-correct together
Shared signals let a team adjust in the flow of work, not months later.
Act while it matters
Leaders read adaptive capacity across the organisation and respond while it still counts.
Change from within
Patterns surface across the whole system, so change is self-directed at every level, never imposed from the top.
Where we work
The human layer sits inside every sector. The instrument and the method travel with it.
Infrastructure & utilities
Measuring resilience across major programmes, supply chains and the communities they serve.
Government & policy
Evidence that shifts how governments think about adaptive capacity and resilient systems.
Organisations
Leadership, culture and teams that can learn and adapt under sustained pressure.
Education & communities
Learners and places that build the adaptive capacity to navigate complexity.
We measure, develop, then hand it over.
WILD stands for Work Integrated Learning Design. The name is the method: learning built into the work, not bolted on.
Measure
CLARA establishes the adaptive capacity an organisation already has.
Develop
Learning is designed into the flow of work, from individual to team to system.
Accredit
Your own people are accredited to run the methods themselves.
Transfer
The capability becomes yours. We remain available as partners, and you hold it.
Featured research
View all publications →Becoming a Resilient Organisation
Crick & Bentley · Int. Journal of Sustainable Engineering
Read →Becoming a Resilient Learner: the internal structure of learning power
Deakin Crick, Huang, Ahmed-Shafi & Goldspink · BJES
Read →The human layer beneath every adaptation plan
WILD Learning Sciences · Water sector
Read →Cited in policy and infrastructure. Proven in delivery.
Community support for the Lower Hunter plan rose to 70%. Its former managing director now chairs WILD.
Independent research, protected in perpetuity.
Research held in the public interest. Deployed through partnership.
How we're governed →People-first leader with expertise across global corporates, investment-backed firms and next-generation organisations.
Built the twenty-six-year body of research behind CLARA. Advises the Cabinet Office.
Thirty years of global leadership in water and infrastructure. Led Hunter Water's transformation into a learning-driven organisation.
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