BetterUp Labs

The science behind the Human Transformation Platform™

Use our proprietary research to guide investments, inform boardroom decisions, and benchmark your workforce against global averages.

Where behavioral science meets business performance

Organizations are awash in tools and training, but lack proof about what actually lifts performance at scale. BetterUp Labs is a first-of-its-kind behavioral research center built to close that gap. Our 40+ in-house PhDs study human behavior in real workplaces, then test interventions to see what translates into real business outcomes. Peer-reviewed studies give you living evidence of what works and what doesn’t that your CHRO, CFO, and CEO can stand behind.

BetterUp Lab’s research has been featured in:

Our flagship research

The case for conditions: Why AI is only as strong as your people

BetterUp Labs research showing why AI performance depends on the human conditions around it — and what leaders can do to build them.

Better together

A research-backed framework for combining human and AI coaching into a single, connected system that drives leadership capability at enterprise scale.

The Performance Crisis

Declining workforce performance costs companies $2.2 trillion in lost productivity. BetterUp Labs research reveals why and how leaders can respond.

Pilots vs. Passengers

AI is overturning decades of conventional wisdom about managing performance. What mindsets will your workforce need, and how must management evolve?

Partnering with the world’s
premier academic institutions

Partnering with the world’s
premier academic institutions

Guided by leading scholars in workforce development

Our Labs team is advised by a Science Board of globally recognized researchers in leadership, well-being, behavioral economics, and digital work. They pressure test our methods, sharpen our questions, and help ensure our findings stand up to peer review.

See the full Science Board

Adam Grant, PhD

Organizational psychologist and Chair of the BetterUp Center for Purpose & Performance
Amy C. Edmondson, PhD

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School | BetterUp Science Board Member
Andrew McAfee

Principal research scientist at MIT, AI thought leader, and bestselling author | BetterUp Science Board Member
Armen Berjikly

Venture Investing Partner at Emerson Collective | BetterUp Science Board Member
Brené Brown, PhD

Research professor, bestselling author, and Executive Chair of the BetterUp Center for Daring Leadership
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, PhD

Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science and Director, Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford | BetterUp Science Board Member

How the research helps your business

Diagnose the problem

Understand where performance is stalling, see which mindsets and patterns are helping or hurting, and benchmark against external data.

Design targeted interventions

Deploy Human + AI coaching, assessments, and nudges tuned to the specific behavioral levers that are limiting performance at your organization.

Prove the impact

Build CFO-friendly views that connect behavior change to real business data like attrition, internal mobility, quota attainment, and customer metrics.