Dr Alex J. Martin-Smith (DBA, LLM, MBA, CMgr) founded the capability approach used across Skills Matrix Template and the wider Upleashed product family. His work focuses on making team capability visible, reviewable, and actionable for managers, HR, and L&D professionals who need evidence, not guesswork.
The 0-5 methodology on this site, and the Capability Guides, reflect twenty years of refining how organisations define skills, rate capability honestly, and turn heat maps into training, hiring, and succession decisions. The Excel template and PulseAI share the same scale and descriptors so capability data stays comparable as teams grow.
Alex writes about skills matrices, competency frameworks, workforce planning, and learning design. He does not claim statistics beyond what the live product pages document (for example assessments processed and teams served, as stated on template.html).
On this site
- Capability Guides (64 practical guides with free PDFs)
- Methodology pillar
- What is a skills matrix? (short resource article)
- Press and awards
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Sixty-four guides for team leaders, HR, and operations, each with a downloadable PDF.
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