For HR and People Leaders
Your people are your largest cost and your greatest risk
Chronic stress is compounding both
BODY | MIND IQ works with organisations to address workforce stress at the source, not through symptom management, but through the physiology beneath it. Clinical methodology. Measurable outcomes. Reporting built for the boardroom.
No commitment. We will tell you honestly if this is the right fit for your organisation.
The Cost of the Status Quo
The data is already in your HR system
You do not need us to tell you there is a problem. Your absence figures, your attrition rate, your EAP referral trends, the picture is already there. What follows is what it costs to leave it unaddressed.
6–9×
Months of salaryThe average cost to replace a mid-level employee, once recruitment, onboarding, and lost productivity are accounted for. One departure from a team under sustained pressure rarely travels alone.
£28bn
Annual cost to UK employersThe CIPD's estimated cost of work-related stress, anxiety, and poor mental health to UK organisations each year. It is not an abstract figure. It is in your payroll data, your sickness records, and your exit interviews.
3rd
Leading cause of voluntary attritionBurnout consistently ranks among the top three reasons people leave organisations. Most exit interviews do not name it directly. Most people do not feel safe naming it. That does not mean it is not the reason.
“None of this is new information to a CPO or CHRO. What is rarer is an intervention that addresses the cause rather than the cost. That is the work we do.”
Why the Budget Hasn't Moved the Numbers
You have probably already
invested in all of this
The interventions most organisations reach for are not wrong, they are working on the wrong layer.
Chronic stress does not resolve because someone has access to a meditation app, or because their manager attended a mental health first aid course. It resolves when the nervous system's physiological state changes and that requires a different kind of input entirely.
This is the gap BODY | MIND IQ works in. Not awareness. Not signposting. Not access. The source itself: the nervous system and the physiology that determines how much pressure a person can hold before they begin to break.
When the physiology changes, the engagement scores follow. The attrition numbers follow. The leadership capacity follows. Not as a side effect of feeling better, as a direct result of functioning differently.
What you have already tried
Employee Assistance Programme subscriptions
Mindfulness and meditation apps
Mental health awareness training
Resilience workshops
Flexible working policies
Wellbeing days and mental health champions
Manager coaching and leadership development
Each of these addresses how people feel about stress. None of them change the nervous system state that generates it.
What BODY | MIND IQ Does
This is not a wellness programme
Call it human capital infrastructure. The physiological foundation that makes everything else your people do more sustainable, more effective, and more measurable.
It is clinically designed
Bal Matharu is an Advanced Respiratory Physiotherapist with over 25 years of NHS and specialist clinical practice. Her PhD research measures precisely how breathwork interventions shift cellular inflammation, nervous system state, and psychosomatic markers in working adults. Every session is built on that evidence base. Not on instructor certification. Not on intuitive practice. On peer-reviewed clinical science.
It is measurable
Every programme includes pre and post health marker assessment. You receive physiological data on what changed, by how much, and across which dimensions of workforce resilience. That data consolidates into your boardroom report. Your CFO will ask for evidence. We built the infrastructure to give it to you before you have to ask.
It works collectively
Groups who work together in a clinically facilitated nervous system session undergo co-regulation, a measurable physiological phenomenon in which shared experience generates trust and social coherence that outlasts the session. This is why teams feel and perform differently after it. It is not mood. It is physiology. And it shows up in your team data.
Trusted by Organisations. Recognised by the media
Bal Matharu has spoken at major wellness summits and featured across broadcast media on nervous system regulation and Lifestyle Medicine.
Holistic Wellness Summit
MCB TV Interview
May 2026
MCB Radio Interview
May 2026The Intelligence Platform
Your CFO will ask for evidence
We built it for you
Every BODY | MIND IQ corporate programme includes access to a workforce intelligence platform built specifically for this work. The boardroom dashboard consolidates pre and post physiological data, workforce resilience scores, session outcomes, and executive summaries into a single view.
Download the boardroom report at any point. It is formatted for a board pack, not a wellness newsletter. Below are 2 metrics from the sample report on the workforce intelligence dashboard.
The Four Streams
One conversation to find
where you start
Every engagement begins with a diagnostic conversation, not a package presentation. The right entry point depends on the size of your organisation, what your people are carrying right now, and what your board needs to see. All investment details are discussed on that call.
All programmes are led by Bal Matharu personally. There is no associate team.
How We Work Together
From first call to boardroom report
Every engagement follows the same sequence. It starts with understanding your organisation, not selling you a package.
The Diagnostic Call
30 minutes. We look at where your organisation is right now, your people, the pressure points, what has already been tried. We tell you honestly whether this work is the right fit and where to start.
Programme Design
We map the right stream, the right cohort structure, and the right cadence for your organisation. You see projected outcomes and a clear investment picture before anything begins.
Delivery
Bal Matharu leads every session. Pre and post pulse assessments run alongside each programme cycle, so the data trail begins from session one.
Boardroom Reporting
Your leadership team has live dashboard access throughout. At the close of each cycle, a downloadable boardroom report is ready for executive review and board presentation.
About Bal Matharu
The person who leads every session.
Bal Matharu spent over 25 years as an Advanced Respiratory Physiotherapist before her own experience of burnout during COVID changed what she understood about human health, human limits, and why the standard clinical toolkit was not enough.
Her PhD research examines how breathwork shifts cellular inflammation, nervous system state, and chronic psychosomatic symptoms in clinical populations. She is a Lifestyle Medicine practitioner, a Scientific Board Member of the International Breathwork Foundation, and sits on the Board of the Abhyas Institute for Universal Awareness. In 2026, she proposed a pilot project to the Ministry of Health in Mauritius to bring nervous system regulation and Lifestyle Medicine into national healthcare as an intervention for non-communicable diseases.
Bal's work has been featured across media outlets exploring the science behind breath, the body's stress response, and why what happens in the nervous system drives outcomes in both mental and physical health.
She works with small corporate cohorts personally, there is no associate team delivering on her behalf. Every session is led by Bal, that is a deliberate decision, and it is what makes the outcomes consistent.
The First Step
Book a 30-minute workforce diagnostic
We will look at your organisation's current picture, your people data, the pressure your teams are under, what you have already tried and give you an honest assessment of where this work fits, what it would produce, and whether it makes sense to proceed.
No pitch. No package presentation. A direct conversation between people who understand what you are dealing with
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