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Wellness diligence, specification and certification

The wellness industry sells outcomes it cannot measure

We test whether a modality works, define the parameters it has to meet, and train the people who deliver it.

The problem

The same failure, six markets, six sets of consequences

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The framework
MNT-2026.1
Last reviewed August 2026
Free to use, no permission required

The Missing Number Test

Four questions. Ask them of any wellness claim, any supplier, any specification. A claim that cannot answer all four is not evidence, and the inability to answer is itself the finding.

01Parameter
Which parameter does this actually change? Not the modality, not the machine, not the brand. The measurable thing that moves.
02Threshold
At what value does it change? Below which the effect does not occur, and above which it may cause harm.
03Unit
In what unit is that value expressed, and under what conditions does it hold? At load, at distance, over what duration.
04Instrument
What reads it, where is it placed, and against which published standard is the reading judged?

Most suppliers can answer one and three. Two and four are where the market falls apart. Run it yourself before you run it past us. If everything comes back clean, you did not need us.

What we specify

Six domains, read at the point the body meets them, not at the point the plant room reports them.

Light
Melanopic EDI at the eye, scheduled by time of day
Air
Delivered rate at the breathing zone, filtered and logged
Thermal
Operative temperature against setpoint, under load
Acoustics
Airborne sound reduction, and NR at night
Water
Immersion setpoint, stability and management record
Surfaces
Emissions from finishes, and the chemistry left on them

Four rungs, sold separately, each one the floor of the next.

What we sell
01

Verdict. Does it work

Green, amber and red diligence on modalities, equipment and claims, with the question set that produced the verdict, kept current as the evidence moves.

02

Method. How it is used

Protocol design, dose and sequencing, and the dashboard that shows whether it is landing. Delivery stays with your team, and so does the relationship.

03

Environment. How the space is built to perform

Light, air and temperature specified alongside the architect and contractor, signed off against a named standard. The layer that asks nothing of the occupant.

04

Capability. How the team carries it

Education and certification through Future Wellness Academy, licensed per seat, so the answer given on the floor is evidence-grade.

Each rung stands on its own and can be bought on its own. In practice they compound, because a protocol without a verdict underneath it is a guess, and a specification without a trained team on top of it is a document.

Scope of work

Eight ways we are engaged, from a verdict to a named seat

Each is scoped and priced on its own. Ask for the detail on any of them.

01
Independent diligence
Fixed fee per set, or licensed
02
Claims register and risk review
Fixed fee, deliverable held
03
Retained scientific leadership
Named role, monthly retainer
04
Evidence-currency retainer
Annual retainer
05
Specification authorship
Project fee, named specifier
06
Programme and protocol design
Licensed per archetype
07
Concept development
Concept fee, then licence
08
Certification and curriculum
Per seat, or platform licence

Most engagements begin with one of the first two and move up. We would rather be tested on a single decision already on the table than sold in on a retainer nobody has yet had a reason to want.

Future Wellness Academy

A standard that lives only in a document is not a standard

Future Wellness Academy is the education arm of the group. It exists because the other three rungs fail at exactly the same point, and it is not the point most people expect.

The failure is always at delivery, not at specification
Most industry education teaches machines, and much of it is supplier funded
Non-compliance is a design fault, not a client failing
Education is how a standard scales past the rooms we can stand in

Courses are authored mechanism first, assessed rather than attended, and funded by seats rather than by suppliers, which keeps the independence firewall intact all the way down.

See the Academy programme
08:00

250 lx melanopic at the eye, to set the clock for the day

21:00

The same room, held low and warm, so melatonin is not suppressed

Independence

We take no margin on the equipment we assess

Most wellness advice in this market is written by someone with a supply relationship on the other side of it. That is why so little of it survives contact with a board, an insurer or a procurement team. Independence is the product, so it is written into the terms rather than promised in the room.

01No commission, rebate or revenue share on any specified or certified product.
02No commercial relationship with a manufacturer whose equipment sits inside a live diligence set.
03Existing brand relationships disclosed in writing at the point of engagement, and firewalled from the assessment layer.
04Editorial sign-off on anything published in our name, without exception.
What a client receives
A written verdict per modality, with the question set that produced it
Parameter, unit and instrument named for every claim in scope
Room-level environmental specification signed off with the design team
Commissioning witness attendance and a 72 hour occupied log
Certification of the delivery team through Future Wellness Academy
Annual review, so a verdict does not quietly age in a tender pack
Founder

Twenty-five years in performance coaching and education, and one consistent finding: the market sells outcomes it cannot measure.

Phil Learney founded the practice to supply the four things a buyer needs to test a claim, and to keep supplying them after the handover photographs have been taken.

Read more about the practice

Bring us a live decision, not a general question

Email an enquiry
Evidence and standards

Every threshold names its instrument

We assess against published standards, not against a manufacturer's marketing sheet. Where a standard does not exist, we say so and describe the method instead.

250 lx
Melanopic EDI at the eye, before 10:00
± 0.5 °C
Immersion setpoint stability under bather load
< 800 ppm
CO₂ at design occupancy
NR 25
Sleeping rooms at night
The reference set
DomainReferenceRead by
LightCIE S 026, and IEEE 1789 for temporal light modulationSpectroradiometer at the vertical plane of the eye
WaterPWTAG TN71 water management recordCalibrated immersion probe, logged under load
AirISO 16890, ePM1 at or above 80 per centBreathing zone sensor, occupied for 72 hours
AcousticsISO 16283-1 for airborne sound reductionField measurement between room and circulation
PhotobiomodulationNo settled standard. Method stated in fullOptical power meter at the working distance

A reading is taken where the body sits, not where the sensor was convenient.

Where a threshold cannot be measured, we remove it rather than soften it.

How a verdict is reached
01

Claim extraction

Every claim made by the supplier is written down as a parameter with a unit. Claims that cannot be written this way are recorded as unevidenced.

02

Literature position

The dose response in the peer-reviewed literature is separated from the dose the equipment actually delivers. The gap between the two is usually the finding.

03

Bench and in situ measurement

Measured at the distance and the load at which a body will use it, not at the manufacturer's stated test condition.

04

Verdict and review date

Green, amber or red, with the conditions attached to it and the date on which it will be tested again.

Future Wellness Academy

A specification is only as good as the team holding it

Why it exists

Future Wellness Academy is the education arm of the group. It exists because the other three rungs fail at exactly the same point, and it is not the point most people expect.

Diligence decides what belongs in a facility. Specification decides how the space performs. Neither survives contact with a member, guest or patient if the person standing in front of them cannot say why it works, and cannot adapt it when the individual does not match the population the protocol was built on.

Courses are authored mechanism first, assessed rather than attended, and licensed per seat or into a partner's own platform. Funding comes from seats rather than from suppliers, which keeps the independence firewall intact all the way down. Delivery partners license the curriculum. They do not own it.

The Diploma

Professional Diploma in Human Wellness Science

A postgraduate-level qualification for practitioners and leaders who work across sleep, circadian health, nervous system regulation, recovery, nutrition and environmental design, rather than in one of them.

Traditional qualifications separate these domains and teach them as isolated specialisms. A client does not arrive with an isolated specialism. They arrive with disrupted sleep, a recovery deficit, cognitive fatigue and an environment working against all three at once, and the practitioner has to hold the interactions in view.

The programme is delivered entirely online, structured around twelve domains, and assessed rather than attended. It combines structured teaching with mentored application, so a graduate leaves with frameworks and assessment tools that survive contact with real clients, guests and teams.

12
Domains across the curriculum
Level 6–7
RQF and EQF equivalence
Aug 2026
Next cohort opens
Online
Live teaching, recorded for playback

A practitioner who cannot explain the mechanism cannot adapt the protocol, and a protocol that cannot be adapted is the wrong one for most of the people it meets.

Curriculum

Twelve domains, taught as one system

The domains are ordered but not independent. Each one is taught with its mechanism first, its evidence base stated at the strength the evidence actually holds, and its limits marked, including the point at which an intervention leaves a coaching scope and belongs with a clinician.

01Sleep optimisation
Circadian entrainment and sleep architecture, and the environmental levers that move both. Light at the eye, temperature, and timing.
02Nutrition and micronutrient balance
Nutrient timing, hydration and supplementation set against biological rhythm rather than against preference.
03Stress and nervous system regulation
Identifying autonomic load, and the interventions that measurably shift it rather than the ones that feel restorative.
04Physical activity
Programming strength, mobility and endurance, with training timed against recovery capacity instead of against the calendar.
05Recovery and regeneration
Dose, sequencing and contraindication across thermal, compression and immersion modalities, and what each one does not do.
06Community and social connection
Group design and adherence, treated as a measurable variable rather than a soft one.
07Hormonal balance
Endocrine patterns, the lifestyle levers that act on them, and the boundary where the work belongs with a clinician.
08Breathing and oxygen utilisation
Assessing breathing pattern, and the interventions that change CO₂ tolerance and autonomic state.
09Environment and habit
Auditing light, temperature, air and acoustics in a real room, then correcting them. The same measures the specification work uses.
10Data-driven personalisation
Reading wearable and biometric data, including how to recognise when the data does not support the conclusion being drawn from it.
11Cognitive performance
Neurotransmitter systems, cognitive load, and the recovery of attention across a working day.
12Financial wellness
Financial instability as a chronic stress input, and its interaction with sleep, recovery and health behaviour.
Who it is for

Practitioners and the people who build the systems around them

The programme assumes an existing professional foundation. It is written for people already working with clients, guests, athletes or staff, who need applied science and a delivery system rather than an introduction.

Practitioners
Health and wellness coaches working in behaviour change, sleep, stress and recovery
Personal trainers and strength and conditioning coaches
Performance staff in sport, tactical and other high-demand occupations
Nutrition coaches working within a non-clinical scope
Breathwork, recovery and mind-body practitioners who want firmer biological grounding
Physiotherapists, osteopaths and allied health practitioners integrating performance and lifestyle work within their own scope
Operations and leadership
Spa and wellness directors, wellness managers and hotel operations leaders
Corporate wellbeing leads and people performance teams
Clinic and studio owners raising the standard of service delivery
Programme and product designers in wellness and performance brands
Who it is not for

Clinicians looking for diagnostic or treatment protocols. The programme can support that work, but it is education and coaching practice, not medical guidance. It is also not an entry point for those with no baseline in practice.

Phil Learney teaching
Phil Learney
Founder and Principal, and lead tutor on the programme
Who teaches it

The curriculum is taught by the person who writes the specifications, not by a training department working from them.

Twenty-five years in performance coaching and education, working with elite athletes, coaches and the operators who build the facilities they train in. Live sessions are taught against current engagements, so the case discussed on a Tuesday evening is usually a room being measured that month.

Where a verdict in the syllabus changes because the evidence changed, it is taught as a change, with the reason and the date attached.

Delivery
Weekly live teaching sessions, recorded for playback
Interactive seminars and case discussion
Assessment models, frameworks and consultation tools
Self-paced assignments and reflective tasks
Optional in-person immersion events and workshops
Entry

Participants typically hold a degree, diploma or equivalent qualification in health, human performance, hospitality or behavioural science, or three to five years of professional experience in a related field.

The programme operates at RQF and Ofqual Level 6 to 7 equivalence, aligning with final-year undergraduate and postgraduate diploma standards under the European Qualifications Framework. Learners are expected to demonstrate critical thinking, systems integration and applied evidence-based reasoning throughout.

Prior study in human biology, psychology, coaching or health science is recommended but not required. If a background is borderline, we will say so before enrolment rather than after it.

Enrolment and fees

Enrolment is open for the August 2026 cohort. Fees include all live and on-demand teaching, digital resources, assessment tools and implementation frameworks, the learning community, and certification on successful completion.

Staged instalments are available. Hotels, groups and corporate partners can access group pricing and tailored professional development packages on request, including delivery of the curriculum into an existing learning platform.

Download the 2026 prospectus

Curriculum detail, domain breakdowns, coaching competencies and assessment structure. We will email it to you and add you to Academy updates. Unsubscribe at any time.

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Operator certification
Foundation
Physiology of recovery, sleep and circadian entrainment. What each modality is proposed to do, and what the evidence currently supports. Assessed by written examination.
Protocol delivery
Dose, sequencing and contraindication. Individualisation against readiness data rather than against preference. Assessed on the floor.
Environment and plant
Reading the room the way the specification reads it: light at the eye, air at the breathing zone, water under load. For facility and engineering staff.
Commercial literacy
The buyer question set, used from the other side of the table. For heads of wellness, procurement and operations directors.
Certification terms
Licensed per seat, per twelve months
Delivered into the operator's existing learning platform
Reissued when a verdict in the syllabus changes
Editorial sign-off held by Future Wellness Group throughout
Resources

Tools we use in the room, written down

Diligence question sets, threshold tables and curriculum detail from live engagements. Each one is free. We ask for an email address so we can send the file and tell you when it is revised.

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The practice

Founded to hold a line the market had stopped holding

Future Wellness Group was founded by Phil Learney, and works with hotel and resort developers, elite sport, private clubs, investors and the manufacturers who want their equipment tested properly.

Phil Learney, Founder and Principal
Phil Learney
Founder and Principal

Twenty-five years in performance coaching and education, working with elite athletes, coaches and the operators who build the facilities they train in. The consistent finding across that period is that the wellness market sells outcomes it cannot measure, and that the buyer is rarely given the four things needed to test a claim.

The practice was built to supply those four things, and to keep supplying them after the handover photographs have been taken.

Who we work with
Hotel and resort developers, at concept and at refurbishment
Elite sport and professional performance departments
Private members clubs and high-specification gyms
Investors and boards, on diligence against a live transaction
Manufacturers seeking assessment and certification of equipment
Operators inheriting an estate that was specified by someone else

The specification outlives the opening night.

Independence is the product, so it is written into the terms rather than promised in the room.

Enquiries

Bring us a live decision, not a general question

A scoping day, or one paid diligence engagement against a deal already on the table, is the usual first step.

Direct
Consultancy
hello@futurewellness.uk
Facility, hotel, workplace and operator engagements.
Assessment
diligence@futurewellness.uk
Manufacturers and brands submitting a product or claim set for independent review. Submissions are logged on receipt.
Education
academy@futurewellness.uk
Future Wellness Academy, certification and licensed curriculum.
Founder
Phil Learney, Founder and Principal
What to send

The decision, the date it has to be made by, and what is already on the table.

Email an enquiry