A QUESTION YOU MAY NEVER HAVE ASKED YOURSELF

Where do you truly belong?

You can spend years with people, places and passions without ever naming the quality of the connection. Belonging is the feeling that you can be yourself, matter, and remain connected. Three questions may reveal more than you expect.

Discover your reflection scoreFirst, understand belonging

A short reflective experience. Thought-provoking, not diagnostic.

BELONGseen · accepted · connected
I can be myself
I matter here
I can reach out
I remain connected
BELONGING, MADE HUMAN

Belonging is not a vague feeling.

It is the lived experience that three things are true at once. When they come together, we often feel the difference between simply being present and genuinely belonging.

01

I can be myself

I do not have to pretend, perform or hide important parts of who I am to stay connected.

02

I matter here

My presence, voice and contribution have value. I am not invisible inside the relationship or space.

03

I remain connected

I can reach out, contribute or be vulnerable without feeling that connection will disappear.

YOUR 3-QUESTION BELONGING REFLECTION

Choose one relationship or part of your life.

Answer only for that one context. This is a short reflective experience, not a clinical or psychometric diagnosis.

THREE QUESTIONS · ABOUT ONE THING THAT MATTERS

What will you reflect on?

Choose one. Keep that same relationship or space in mind for all three questions.

In this relationship or space, I can be myself without feeling that I need to perform or pretend.

In this relationship or space, I feel seen and valued — my presence genuinely matters.

In this relationship or space, I feel able to reach out, contribute or be vulnerable and still remain connected.

—Belonging Reflection Score
YOUR RESULT

A question to sit with:
What would need to change for this part of your life to feel more like a place where you truly belong?

If three simple questions can reveal something meaningful in a relationship or part of life you have known for years, imagine what a deeper diagnostic can reveal inside an organisation.

See how this works in organisations

If belonging can be felt in one relationship, it can be measured across an entire organisation.

And when it is measured well, leaders can finally see where it thrives, where it breaks, for whom — and what to change next.

FROM PERSONAL INSIGHT TO ORGANISATIONAL CLARITY

Belonging is just as powerful inside organisations.

In workplaces, belonging influences how people contribute, speak up, stay, grow and collaborate. Yet many organisations still treat it as a vague cultural aspiration rather than something that can be understood and strengthened deliberately.

What if leaders could see where belonging strengthens, where it breaks, for whom, and what to change next?

See what employees actually experienceMove beyond assumptions, intentions and generic engagement data.
Understand where belonging breaks downReveal differences across teams, functions, levels and locations.
Identify which conditions matterSurface recognition, fairness, growth, voice and support patterns.
Turn insight into actionTranslate findings into leadership and culture interventions.
THE ORGANISATIONAL FRAMEWORK

The NARGES Belonging Index™

A research-informed workplace diagnostic that deliberately separates whether people feel they belong from the organisational conditions that help explain why.

SCORE 01

Belonging Outcome Score

WHAT PEOPLE FEEL

Do employees actually feel that they belong?
This measures the lived experience of being accepted, valued, included and having a legitimate place in the collective.

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Outcome explained by conditions
SCORE 02

NARGES Driver Index

WHY THEY MAY FEEL IT

What conditions are creating or weakening that belonging?
This diagnoses six workplace conditions that leaders can understand and act upon.

NNoticed & KnownDo people feel seen, recognised and understood?
AAccepted without AssimilationCan people belong without suppressing important parts of who they are?
RRespected & Fairly TreatedDo people experience dignity, fairness and consistency?
GGrowing & ContributingCan people contribute meaningfully and see a future here?
EEmpowered to Speak & InfluenceCan people speak honestly and influence what affects them?
SSupported & ConnectedDo people have the relationships and support they need to succeed?
Narges Jalali
Narges JalaliWorkplace Belonging · Leadership · Organisational Culture
ABOUT NARGES JALALI

Helping organisations understand the human experience at work.

Narges Jalali works at the intersection of workplace belonging, leadership and organisational culture. The NARGES Belonging Index™ is her proprietary framework for helping organisations understand whether people truly feel that they belong — and which organisational conditions are shaping that experience.

Her work turns a human truth into organisational insight: people are more able to contribute fully where they feel they can be themselves, matter and remain connected.

FOR LEADERS · HR · L&D · CULTURE TEAMS

What would belonging reveal inside your organisation?

The workplace programme combines a Belonging Outcome Score with six diagnostic drivers, group-gap analysis, risk indicators and a 90-day action blueprint.

  • Understand what employees actually experience
  • Find hidden differences between teams and groups
  • Identify leadership conditions needing attention
  • Track whether action changes the experience over time
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By submitting, you are asking Narges and her team to contact you about the Belonging programme. If you completed the 3-question reflection, your chosen context and score may be saved with your enquiry to help us understand your interest.

The 3-question Belonging Reflection is an introductory self-reflection experience. It is not the NARGES Workplace Belonging Assessment and should not be interpreted as a clinical, diagnostic or validated relationship measure.

Belonging is often felt long before it is named.

Once it is named, it can be understood. Once it is understood, it can be strengthened.

From personal clarity to organisational action.Explore the NARGES Belonging Index