Our Purpose

“Helping you keep the people who keep you successful. ”

Central to Life by Design’s philosophy is helping employees take responsibility for driving their own engagement by giving them the means by which to get clarity around what they want both inside and outside of work. Psychologically most people know what they don’t want. However, few really know what they do want. If employees don’t know what truly engages them in work and life, it is near impossible to sustainably engage them. Fostering a self-leadership approach, Life by Design provides organisations with the systems and processes for their people to ensure they get this clarity and more personal control.

Founded in 1997, Life by Design has grown to become one of Australia’s most innovative employee engagement specialists. With our head office in Sydney, Australia and a North American office based in Toronto, Canada, Life by Design helps organisations across the world improve performance, productivity and profit.

We work with some of the world’s leading companies such as Hewitt 2007 Best Employers SAP and Randstad (Select Recruitment), Ernst & Young, 3 Mobile, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, McDonald’s, Coca Cola, Westpac, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, HBOS, Macquarie Bank, Stryker, TNS, ING, Johnson & Johnson, to name just a few, to better engage their people and help them be more successful businesses.

Improving the world, one life at a time

At Life by Design, life is our life work. We believe that one of the world’s most easily fixed social problems is that many people lack direction in their lives and live a ‘life by default’ rather than a Life by Design. Clarity of purpose will improve our happiness and the ripple effect will benefit our communities and the world. The world’s collective achievement of individuals fulfilling their purpose will propel this planet and its people towards a more purposeful and meaningful future.