The Work Body Lab: Protecting the body behind the work.
ABOUT
High performance depends on the human system producing it.
The Work Body Lab helps build the system that makes sustainable performance possible.
We help founders and teams understand how their working patterns affect the body and, in turn, their ability to focus, think, decide, recover and perform.
We assess what's happening, identify the highest-impact changes, and bring together the right expertise to help people change how they work and make those changes stick.
A practical intervention designed around how you actually work.
Built by someone who learned the cost the hard way.
Founder, Elyna Douglas
I spent almost a decade launching products for Apple and Google. I worked through migraines, fought exhaustion and lived with chronic stress, and like most of my colleagues, I called it part of the job.
At 35, a cancerous tumour stopped me. I went into surgery, and for the first time in years I had space to face a question I had been too busy to ask: what had all those hours at a desk done to my body?
I dug into the research and didn’t like what I found. Yoga once a week and 10,000 steps a day couldn’t undo 40+ hours of sitting. Then I started spotting the same warning signs in friends and colleagues who kept pushing through, convinced they were fine.
I remembered feeling different. At 26, I ran a glamping business outside London, worked on my feet in the fields every day and felt stronger than ever. My work kept me moving, and my body thrived.
I founded The Work Body Lab for founders and teams in the thick of it, working hard, delivering results and relying on the same habits I once did. I show them what their work is doing to their bodies and how to change it now, while the choice is still theirs.
Elyna Douglas, Founder
Where to you start?
You can't change what you haven't understood.
The Work Body Lab starts with a structured assessment of how you work and what your work is asking of your body. We use those insights to identify the patterns affecting performance and determine where intervention will have the greatest impact.