Online Personal Development for young people

Our online platform Persona Life Skills takes a unique personality insights approach to Social-Emotional Learning for school and college students age 11-19, ideal for classroom, blended or remote settings, and homeschooling.

Over 550 institutions in 47 countries registered, with 172,529 students. 94% say they learnt to improve life skills; 96% of teachers report positive outcomes.

Empower non-specialist teachers to boost wellbeing and employability. Improve academic results 10-20%, and hit Ofsted, ISI, IB, Cambridge or other targets.

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Hit student Personal Development targets

Hit student Personal Development targets

Student wellbeing is a top priority for schools and inspectors. And 93% of employers now say life skills are critical in hiring decisions.

 

Persona Life Skills builds student wellbeing and employability by developing 22 social-emotional life skills. 94% of teachers say Persona Life Skills boosts their students’ wellbeing, and 97% report that it improves student employability.

Deliver and monitor Social-Emotional Learning

Deliver and monitor Social-Emotional Learning

Help your students navigate their life journey, with our evidence based learning.

 

Combined psychology and pedagogy inform our personality insights and curriculum, guiding pupils to know themselves, understand others, and learn to achieve more positive outcomes in life challenges. Monitor their progress at whole school, cohort, group or student level.

Empower non-specialist PSHE/SEL/SMSC teachers

Empower non-specialist PSHE/SEL/SMSC teachers

Any teacher can facilitate the learning with Persona Life Skills, in the classroom, or in blended or remote learning.

 

Easily accessible on Chromebook, Surface, laptop, PC, tablet or smartphone, our ready-made modules and built-in teacher guidance mean non-specialist teachers are quickly empowered to enable personal development.

Join leading institutions worldwide using Persona Life Skills for young people's personal development

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Choose an affordable Teacher package for 30 students. Or start with a School/College 30 day trial for unlimited students and teachers, then upgrade to a Paid Subscription to access all modules and features. Homeschooling? Our great value subscription includes up to three students.

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Causal link between life skills and wellbeing

Causal link between life skills and wellbeing

A review of 17 research studies found a robust causal link between developing life skills and improved social-emotional wellbeing (source: The Centre for Education & Youth).

 

Life Skills framework

Social-emotional learning boosts academic results

Social-emotional learning boosts academic results

Analysis of 213 UK schools found those with well-developed social-emotional learning delivered 11% higher standardised achievement test results (source: Public Health England).

 

Whole school benefits

Good wellbeing means better job stability

Good wellbeing means better job stability

There is one-third less job-hopping, and employment stability is 34% higher, among young people with good levels of wellbeing (source: Gallup).

 

Positive student impact

Eastbury Community School (UK)

Equality & Wellbeing Lead

The Persona Life Skills resources couldn't come at a better time, in my opinion.

LYTE Scholars (US)

Career & Alumni Services Manager

We are loving Persona so far. This is the only developmentally appropriate personal development program we have been able to find.

Seth M.R. Jaipuria Schools (India)

Assistant Vice President - Academics

Persona’s unique personality insights approach helps individuals to reflect and become better versions of themselves.

Hampton Academies Trust (UK)

Chair of Trustees

Tools like Persona (and to be fair, it's unique) empower non-specialist teachers to build student wellbeing and employability.

The English College in Prague (Czech Republic)

Student, Year 9

The best thing about it is you get to know how to deal with life problems.

The English College in Prague (Czech Republic)

Teacher Librarian

I think it is an excellent programme for both students and their tutors. It provides an opportunity for students to learn about themselves and their peers in a non-threatening environment.

Ansford Academy (UK)

Principal

Persona is central to our commitment to knowing our students as individuals and making sure they have the best experience of school and learning.

elc International School (Malaysia)

Head of Student Welfare

The Persona Life Skills programme gave us a new perspective and platform to implement PSHE.

Derby City Council (UK)

Education Officer

The Teacher Island gave a very accurate assessment of my Persona. It was very fascinating and quite nuanced. It's a great resource and I'm sure schools will find it useful.

Clifton College (UK)

Head of PSHE

Staff and students have enjoyed and benefitted from the platform, and the Persona team have been incredibly supportive.

Seth M.R. Jaipuria School, Bhiwadi (India)

Academic Head

Students have started understanding group needs and now they mingle more with each other, have shown an improved collaboration during classroom projects.

Prior Park College (UK)

Mathematics Specialist

You have an algorithm that is very accurate. I look forward to sharing the results with the children.

Samantha de Senna Fernandes

Teenage wellbeing blogger

I find Persona very educational and insightful. It is a great platform for everyone to self-reflect, improve and learn new things about themselves and others.

Stanchester Academy (UK)

Headteacher

I can see how Persona fits into our existing focus on building student character and would absolutely wish to trial it next term.

Narayana Vidyalam (India)

Student, Year 9

It's helped me to do my day-to-day study and taught me how to work well.

Ansford Academy (UK)

Principal

We love the impact Persona is already having in the life of our school community. Just having a shared language we use when talking about our self is a huge step in the right direction. I would recommend more schools take a look!

Wellsway Multi-Academy Trust (UK)

CEO

An e-learning approach to life skills would be a lot easier than finding teachers with the ability to deliver it.

Vedanta Academy (India)

English Teacher

In this digital world the students' wellbeing is the priority. As classes are online, it is challenging to motivate students. Persona is a highly appreciated initiative.

Ralph Allen School (UK)

Head of Wellbeing

If you understand yourself and others better, you’ll be far more productive, in school and in the workplace.

Seth M.R. Jaipuria School, Hardoi (India)

Teacher

It was an awesome experience learning with Persona. Students were able to understand others in a better way and thus collaborated better. They were able to manage their anger and mood swings.

Seth M.R. Jaipuria School (India)

Student, Year 10

It helps me gain confidence, and face life challenges.

PSHE Solutions (UK)

Director

Persona allows students not only to enhance their attainment in some traditional measures, but also their self-worth and the 'soft skills' which are crucial to wellbeing, further study and employability.

Barton Peveril Sixth Form College (UK)

Student, Year 11

Persona Life Skills is very useful for the transition between secondary school and college.

Narayana Vidyalayam (Nagpur, India)

Chief Academic Advisor

An easy, communicative, self focused, non-assessed, interesting, comprehensive and effective way of providing a platform for self directed improvement.

Lewis & Clark High School (US)

English & Psychology Teacher

Once students have the routine of the website down they can run themselves, allowing teachers to focus on the results of student work.

Sexey's School (UK)

Director of Boarding

Persona gives you everything you need to create a PSHE programme that is not only interactive but engaging and insightful.

Binus School Serpong (Indonesia)

Student, Year 12

It's a great addition to our personal development program sessions, as it is interactive... One of its advantages is that it focuses on the student's own personality at the individual level.

Komal Satti Narayan

Principal, Seth M.R. Jaipuria School, Bhiwadi (India)

As Principal of SMRJS Bhiwadi, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for creating these exceptional Persona Life Skills modules.

Full Life Schools (Nigeria)

Proprietor

We want to continue with Persona. We saw the difference it made in our Grade 12 students who have graduated.

Prior Park College (UK)

Student, Year 11

I really liked the entire interface, and felt the content was very good. I like how there is a whole breadth of content over different topics as well.

GEMS Wellington Academy (UAE)

Director of Innovation

This looks amazing... I absolutely can see how this would transform teaching.

Unique personality insights approach

The ‘Self/Friends’ personality insights framework at its heart makes Persona Life Skills unique. Intentionally practical and memorable, it was designed specially for young people, with R&D funding from the UK government and Google.  

 

Through Self Insights and Friends Insights the Persona thinking framework helps students understand that everyone has their own mix of personality styles influencing how they think, communicate and behave in different situations – and this can change over time, especially when you are young.

 

Our technology-enhanced curriculum guides students in using the framework to develop their social-emotional skills. They learn how to adapt to life challenges in Social, Learning and Work contexts, boosting their wellbeing and employability, while supporting academic achievement.

Unique personality insights approach

Free PDF Download: The 2024 Guide to Student Personal Development in Secondary Schools and Colleges

Download the 2024 update of our free PDF resource, a guide to improving Wellbeing, Academic and Employability outcomes for students age 13-24.

 

“An invaluable resource.”

– Al Kingsley, Chair of Trustees, Hampton Academies Trust, UK

Free PDF Download: The 2024 Guide to Student Personal Development in Secondary Schools and Colleges

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