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Employee Engagement Software for Teams That Perform

Marlee is employee engagement software for enterprises that improves performance, retention, productivity, and collaboration by helping teams understand each other and work better, together.
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Why Employee Engagement Software Often Fall Short

Most employee engagement software focuses on measuring sentiment. Surveys and dashboards can highlight how people feel at work, but they rarely change how work actually gets done. 
For enterprise leaders, this creates a gap between insight and impact. Teams may surface concerns, but leaders are left without practical guidance on how to improve performance, collaboration, or retention in their day-to-day work.
When engagement tools sit outside real workflows, they struggle to influence how teams actually operate. Engagement becomes something that gets reported on, rather than something that changes how people work together. 
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How Marlee Drives Engagement Through Performance

Engagement reflects how people experience their work. When collaboration, decision-making, and leadership support break down, engagement follows.
Marlee is employee engagement software built on motivation science. Using the Marlee Motivational Analysis—grounded in 25 years of research and measuring 48 distinct work motivations with up to 98% analysis accuracy—Marlee gives leaders and teams a clear understanding of how each person works best.
These motivations shape how people collaborate, communicate, and perform. Making them visible helps leaders move beyond surface-level engagement signals and address the factors that actually drive performance across teams.
What this enables in practice:
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Understand what motivates your team

Leaders gain a practical view of how each person prefers to make decisions, collaborate, and approach their work—beyond what surveys can reveal.
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Use insights when they matter most

Get insights in the moments that matter most: starting a new role, working with a new teammate, or navigating a period of change.
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Support development at scale

Personalized development is available across your entire organization, so performance improvement isn't limited to a small group of leaders.

Outcomes for Enterprise Leaders

Marlee is designed to support the outcomes enterprise leaders care about, not just engagement metrics. By improving how people work together, Marlee helps organizations see measurable impact across performance, retention, productivity, and collaboration.

Improved performance across teams

Teams align faster, make clearer decisions, and deliver more consistent results.

Higher retention and stability

When people understand how they work best and feel supported in their roles, attrition reduces and engagement becomes more sustainable.

Stronger collaboration across functions

Shared understanding of motivations reduces misalignment and improves how teams work together—even in complex, cross-functional environments.

Increased productivity at scale

Leaders spend less time resolving friction and more time enabling their teams to execute.

Beyond surveys and sentiment

Traditional tools report how people feel. Marlee helps leaders understand what drives performance and how to improve it in day-to-day work.

Actionable insight, not static data

Instead of dashboards that sit outside workflows, Marlee surfaces practical insight leaders can use in real moments: 1:1s, team formation, and periods of change.

Built for performance, not just measurement

Marlee connects engagement to how teams collaborate, make decisions, and deliver outcomes—rather than treating engagement as a standalone metric.

Designed for enterprise scale

Marlee supports consistent ways of working across large, distributed teams, without relying on one-off programs or workshops.

How Marlee Is Different From Traditional Engagement Tools

Most employee engagement software focuses on collecting feedback. Marlee is built to change how people work.

See how Marlee works for your organization

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Research and Evidence

Marlee's employee engagement software is grounded in long-term research into human motivation and performance at work. The Marlee Motivational Analysis is built on 25 years of research, providing a reliable foundation for understanding how people work, collaborate, and perform across different roles and environments.
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The ADHD at Work Study

This research explores how neurodivergent strengths show up at work and how leaders can better support different ways of thinking and working to improve collaboration and performance.
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The Gen Z at Work Study (2024)

Marlee's generational study examines how workplace motivations have shifted from Baby Boomers to Gen Z, highlighting how differences in motivation affect engagement, collaboration, and performance across multi-generational teams.
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Trusted by Leading Teams

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There's a lot of focus on hard skills. But at a company, what's absolutely critical is communication and soft skills — the things most companies don't spend enough time focusing on. Marlee has been an amazing tool to help us do that.

Melanie Perkins,

Co-founder & CEO, Canva
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Marlee’s deep insights allowed us to focus on actual needs naturally embedded with inclusion and deep consideration as to achieving a complete experience. All subjectivity is removed and we can focus on the employees needs and growth to foster an environment of inclusion, support and belonging. 

Lorraine Longato,

Senior Innovation Strategist & Co-Lead, Partnerships APJ/GC - SAP

Frequently Asked Questions

What is employee engagement software?

Employee engagement software helps organizations understand and improve how people experience their work. Unlike tools that only measure sentiment through surveys, modern employee engagement software connects insight to how teams collaborate, make decisions, and perform in day-to-day work.

How is Marlee different from engagement survey tools?

Marlee goes beyond collecting feedback. It helps leaders understand what drives performance, collaboration, and communication across teams, so engagement can be improved through changes to how work happens, not just through reporting cycles.

Is Marlee suitable for large, complex organizations?

How does Marlee support performance improvement?

What does implementation typically involve?

Yes. Marlee is designed for enterprise environments, supporting large, distributed teams and hybrid ways of working. It helps leaders create consistent ways of working across functions and geographies.
Marlee provides insight into what motivates people at work and how teams collaborate. Leaders use this insight to align roles, improve collaboration, and support performance in everyday moments such as onboarding, 1:1s, and team changes.
Marlee is introduced through leadership teams and then scaled across the organization. Implementation focuses on integrating insight into existing workflows, so leaders and teams can apply what they learn without adding unnecessary process overhead.

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