The PSYENCE Embeddedness Diagnostic
Your Best People Are Leaving. You're Measuring the Wrong Things.
Engagement surveys measure how people feel.
Embeddedness measures why they stay.
Only one predicts who leaves.
Proven in the field
42%→10%
Attrition rate - Fortune 500 fintech sales team
$54M→$78M
Incremental revenue after one diagnostic
681
Published studies behind the methodology
Not through training. Through systems, using Psyence.
A few of our Client Collaborations
The Problem
The Tools You're Using Were
Built for a Different Era.
Your strategy makes sense on paper. Your KPIs are tracked. Your leadership team is experienced. So why do the same problems keep showing up?
Because you are treating symptoms. The attrition nobody can explain. The restructuring that gutted morale in the people who survived it. The best rep who left for a lateral move that made no sense on paper. The initiative that "didn't get buy-in" from a team that was already mentally out the door.
These are not random events. They are structural failures. The forces holding your people in place eroded and nobody measured it. Engagement surveys cannot see this. Exit interviews happen too late. Until someone diagnoses the structural pattern, you keep solving the wrong problem.
That is what PSYENCE does.
The PSYENCE Embeddedness Diagnostic
Stop Guessing Why People Leave.
Start Measuring.
The PED is a 36-item assessment grounded in 25 years of academic research, original doctoral research across 556 financial services professionals, and 35 years of psychological contract theory. It measures the four forces that determine whether someone stays or goes.
681
Published studies
42K +
Research Participants
36
Item Assessment
Services
Three Entry Points.
One Diagnostic Foundation.
01
Revenue Execution
Your sales team knows what to do. They are not doing it.
The gap between sales strategy and execution is not a training problem. It is an engineering problem. PSYENCE diagnoses where your execution breaks down, identifies which variables shifted, and engineers conditions where consistent execution becomes the default.
02
Post-Transition Stabilization
Every organizational transition looks great on a spreadsheet. Then the people start leaving.
Post-layoff, leadership succession, restructuring, and acquisitions destroy embeddedness. PSYENCE deploys the PED within 30 days of a transition event to identify which dimensions are collapsing and who is at highest flight risk — before you lose the people the business depends on.
03
Organizational Health
You keep solving the same problems because nobody has diagnosed the pattern underneath them.
The PED diagnoses the structural forces that determine whether your organization holds people or loses them. AI headcount reduction doesn't reduce turnover risk — it concentrates it. When each remaining person carries more revenue and institutional knowledge, every departure costs more.
Competitive Positioning
What PSYENCE Does
That Nobody Else Does
Case Study
From 42% Attrition to Under 10%.
From $54M to $78M.
42% → 10%
Annual attrition rate — Fortune 500
fintech
$54M → $78M
Incremental revenue generated
$1M+
Operational savings
18 mo.
Time to full transformation
The Problem
A Fortune 500 fintech's North American sales organization was hemorrhaging talent at 42% annually. Nicknamed "The Wild West" by other business units, the 110-person team had no consistent onboarding, no coaching infrastructure, toxic cross-functional relationships, and a revolving door that cost over $100,000 per departure.
The Diagnosis
PSYENCE diagnosed the patterns: inaccurate job descriptions attracting the wrong candidates, an interview process that couldn't identify coachability, zero structured development post-hire, and a culture where two sales locations operated as rival factions.
The Intervention
New hiring criteria. Rebuilt onboarding. Co-created sales process with top performers — scrapping a failed $100K external program. Coaching infrastructure. Cross-location relationship engineering. Structural changes, not motivational ones.
The Result
Attrition dropped from 42% to under 10%. Incremental revenue grew from $54M to $78M. Operational savings exceeded $1M. The majority of the development team was promoted into sales leadership. Not through training. Through systems, with Psyence.
Athletics
The Same Science That Predicts Employee Retention
Predicts Roster Retention.
Over 10,500 college football players entered the transfer portal in January 2026 alone. Men's basketball sees 40%+ of Division I rosters cycling annually. Athletic departments are spending millions on NIL with zero diagnostic tools to predict who stays.
The four forces that predict whether someone stays or goes work the same way in a locker room as they do in a boardroom. The difference is language, not science.
The PSYENCE Embeddedness Diagnostic now has an athlete version built for college programs. Measure the structural forces binding athletes to your program. Identify flight risk before they enter the portal.
10,500
College football players in the transfer portal - January 2026 alone
The Team
Built on Research.
Applied in the Field.
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Dr. Scott Dannehl
Principal & Owner · Client PSYENCE LLC
PhD in Human Capital Management from Bellevue University. Dissertation research across 556 financial services professionals confirmed job embeddedness predicts retention more powerfully than satisfaction, engagement, or cultural fit. MA in Sport Psychology. BA in Psychology. Nearly 30 years in Fortune 500 sales leadership.
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Michael Anderson
Contributing Partner · SaaS Strategy · 10+ years enterprise growth
Enterprise SaaS growth specialist with a decade of experience scaling revenue organizations in high-velocity environments.
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William Ely
Contributing Partner · Sales Leadership · 20+ years Fortune 500
Two decades of Fortune 500 sales leadership experience spanning multiple industries and organizational scales.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common Questions
Straight Answers.
What makes Client PSYENCE different? Most consultants study your problem and explain it back to you. PSYENCE is built on a simple conviction: when the variables around your people shift, you either recalibrate or you pay for standing still. At a Fortune 500 fintech, that approach took attrition from 42% to under 10% and grew revenue by $24M in 18 months.
What is the PSYENCE Embeddedness Diagnostic? The PED is a 36-item assessment grounded in 25 years of job embeddedness research, original doctoral research across 556 financial services professionals, and 35 years of psychological contract theory. It measures four dimensions: Links, Fit, Sacrifice, and Promise Integrity. Available for business professionals and college athletes.
What types of situations do you work with? Revenue execution gaps, post-layoff survivor attrition, organizational restructuring, leadership succession, rapid growth, and technology transformation. Particularly effective when embeddedness collapses across all four dimensions simultaneously.
How does embeddedness apply during organizational transitions? Every transition event disrupts embeddedness across all four dimensions simultaneously. Links sever when reporting structures change. Fit collapses when culture shifts overnight. Sacrifice drops when career trajectory becomes uncertain. Promise Integrity breaks because every commitment made before the change is now questionable. This is why organizations see secondary attrition of 20%+ within 12 months of a major transition.
How is PSYENCE different from I-O psychology? I-O Psychology and behavioral economics study patterns. PSYENCE starts there but goes further: we identify which variables shifted, why nobody recalibrated, and what conditions need to change so the pattern stops repeating. We do not study behavior. We change the conditions that drive it.
Contact
Let's Find the Pattern.
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