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THE ASPIRE INDEX™
Evidence-based insights for sustainable high performance in the legal industry
The ASPIRE Index™ is a brain and mind science-based assessment tool designed to measure and enhance professional performance and wellbeing within the legal sector. Combining global research with evidence-based insights, the ASPIRE Index™ serves three interconnected purposes: (i) as a landmark global research initiative advancing understanding of what enables legal industry professionals to thrive, (ii) as an enterprise-level diagnostic platform for organisations, and (iii) as a personal development tool for individuals.
About The ASPIRE Index™
Why it matters
Legal industry professionals operate in complex, high-pressure environments where small behavioural shifts can have a disproportionate impact on performance, resilience, and career satisfaction. The ASPIRE Index™ helps individuals, teams and firms to understand these levers, providing both individual insight and an aggregated, data-driven picture of the link between performance and wellbeing in law. The outcomes include targeted strategies and actions for improving performance and wellbeing.
In an increasingly competitive landscape where it is harder to attract talent, harder to retain people, and margins are being squeezed, organisations need data-driven approaches to ensure their people are effective and healthy.
The Five ASPIRE Factors
The ASPIRE Index™ examines five scientifically validated factors that influence performance and wellbeing:
- Autonomy & Intrinsic Drive: enhances self-motivation and ownership.
- Prosocial Orientation: builds trust, collaboration, and team performance.
- Purpose & Values Alignment: strengthens motivation through meaning and alignment.
- Interoceptive Awareness & Self-Regulation: supports emotional regulation and stress resilience.
- Resilience & Long-Term Engagement: encourages recovery from setbacks and sustained engagement.
For Law Firms and In-house Teams
Strategic Insights for Organisations
For law firms and in-house teams, ASPIRE enterprise aggregates data to highlight organisational trends and benchmark results across teams, practice areas, or offices -providing leaders with actionable insights to inform policy and culture, and strategic decisions.
The ASPIRE Index™ shows you how your organisation measures against these factors, whilst also providing the tools to help improve in areas that matter to both individual flourishing and organisational success.
The Business Case
Everyone knows the legal profession operates in a demanding environment and there is an obvious wellbeing imperative to support employees. But there is also a critical business case.
The competitive landscape is intensifying. It is harder to attract people, harder to retain them, and profit margins are being squeezed. Firms need to constantly monitor their profitability on work. If people are productive and efficient, whilst simultaneously healthy and maintaining good wellbeing levels, then this is a strong long-term measure for the firm's financial health and the health of its people.
Enterprise Benefits
Predictive retention intelligence: identify retention risks by measuring psychological factors that predict turnover and enable targeted interventions.
Resource optimisation: understand how to allocate work strategically considering capacity and motivational profiles.
Culture diagnostic: measure organisational factors that enable or inhibit performance and wellbeing, with benchmarks across teams and offices.
Competitive differentiation: demonstrate your commitment to evidence-based people strategies in a market where talent increasingly prioritises culture alongside compensation.
Risk management: identify systematic issues early.
Implementation support: BASIL provides comprehensive support from initial consultation and communication plans, through data collection and analysis, to interpretation and ongoing support. We work with you to ensure maximum participation and meaningful application of insights.
For Individuals Working in the Legal Industry
Personal Development Through Evidence-Based Insights
For individuals, The ASPIRE Index™ provides personalised feedback and practical, evidence-based suggestions for improving performance, wellbeing, and resilience. You'll gain insight into where you stand on measures that directly correlate with both performance and personal wellbeing, as well as receiving tailored strategies for improvement.
The Index serves as a benchmarking tool you can use throughout your career. Complete it multiple times to track your progress and identify areas for continued growth. Whether you're an early-career professional or a senior practitioner, the ASPIRE Index™ provides strategic self-knowledge to support your career aspirations and nurture your wellbeing.
Individual Benefits
Strategic self-knowledge: understanding how you rank on each ASPIRE factor, enabling you to take targeted action to leverage strengths and build capacity where needed.
Actionable strategies: specific science-backed tips and developmental questions tailored to your responses.
Validation and perspective: understanding that your challenges often reflect common patterns rooted in structural dynamics rather than personal shortcomings.
Career-long development: track your responses over time and assess whether interventions produce intended effects, maintaining self-awareness as circumstances evolve.
What You'll Receive
Individual scores and indicators for each of the factors measured.
Detailed feedback that explains your unique productivity and wellbeing profile.
Targeted questions designed to encourage self-reflection.
Practical strategies and tips that you can use to improve your work and wellbeing
Grounded in Research
A Landmark Initiative
Beyond its immediate practical applications, the ASPIRE Index™ represents a landmark research initiative, the first of its kind to systematically map the behavioural foundations of performance and wellbeing in the legal sector at scale. By combining individual insight with aggregated data, the initiative aims to advance our understanding of what enables legal professionals to thrive, and how behavioural science can help create a healthier, high-performing future for the legal profession.
This is not a one-time survey; it is an ongoing, dynamic research program. The ASPIRE Index™ will continue collecting data to build a comprehensive picture of productivity and wellbeing in the legal profession. Growing participation provides richer insight and stronger benchmarks and clearer evidence of what drives lasting performance across the legal profession. This is a long-term commitment to advancing the understanding of what enables sustainable high performance.
Each ASPIRE Index™ question was developed following a rigorous process and derives from established psychological theory and empirical research.
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