Get Ahead with Rickter Scale World

For more than three decades, Rickter has advanced how human movement is explored, articulated and measured.

What began as a pioneering response to social exclusion has developed into the 

Rickter Scale Method: a contemporary, person-led methodology connecting structured human conversation, self-defined measurement and credible Movement Evidence.

Throughout that development, one principle has remained constant: the individual establishes their position, explains what it means and retains ownership of what they would like to be different.

The Rickter Scale originated in 1993 through the work of Keith Stead and Rick Hutchinson. It was developed in response to the challenges experienced by young people involved in offending, their families and others facing social exclusion and barriers to education, training and employment.

The early method created a structured and accessible way for individuals to consider their circumstances, articulate what mattered and identify personally meaningful direction. It recognised changes in confidence, awareness, responsibility, motivation and future direction that conventional performance measures frequently overlooked.

Initially operated through The Choiceworks Partnership, Rickter brought together structured dialogue, self-defined scaling, motivational practice and evaluation.

Its first commercial application enabled services to recognise and evidence personal outcomes that were frequently described at the time as “softer outcomes”. Rickter demonstrated that these experiences could be explored and measured without removing their personal meaning.

From 2001 to 2017, The Rickter Company expanded the method internationally. Demand grew across approximately 6,000 organisations in 23 countries, with more than 22,000 practitioners trained. International 

In 2017, stewardship of Rickter transferred to Keith Stead Associates. The method continued to be delivered and developed during a period of considerable economic, technological and social change.

In 2021, Keith Stead began collaborating with award-winning educationalist and long-standing Rickter practitioner Martin Dennis Timoney to develop Rickter Scale 2.0. The collaboration reviewed how the language, training and application of the method could respond to changing community needs and the widespread consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2022, Peter Benkendorf, founder of The Collaboratory in Dayton, Ohio, contributed his experience in community collaboration, vision-led development and collective approaches to change. This complemented Rickter’s established experience in behavioural change, metacognition, practitioner development and international partnership working.

In 2023, Martin Dennis Timoney completed the acquisition of Rickter Scale and established Rickter Scale World as the company responsible for its next generation.

The acquisition brought Rickter into new ownership and created the opportunity to combine its established heritage with a more ambitious programme of modernisation, investment and international development.

Building on his first-hand experience of the method and his earlier collaboration with Keith Stead, Martin set out to protect Rickter’s founding principles while advancing its language, practitioner development, technology and application.

This was not simply a change of company name. It marked the beginning of a new generation of Rickter—built on more than three decades of practice and designed for the future of human movement measurement.

To support international expansion, Rickter Scale World granted Insight Reality EU Limited a worldwide licence for the Rickter Scale Method. 

The licence provides a structure through which international partnerships, Associate relationships, practitioner training, organisational implementation and technology-enabled delivery can be developed across different countries and sectors.

Insight Reality EU Limited brings experience in international business development, consortium management, innovation and impact intelligence. Its role enables Rickter to contribute to larger organisational, community and cross-border initiatives while supporting responsible international growth.

Rickter Scale World continues to protect the method’s strategic direction and integrity

To support international expansion, Rickter Scale World granted Insight Reality EU Limited a worldwide licence for the Rickter Scale Method. 

The licence provides a structure through which international partnerships, Associate relationships, practitioner training, organisational implementation and technology-enabled delivery can be developed across different countries and sectors.

Insight Reality EU Limited brings experience in international business development, consortium management, innovation and impact intelligence. Its role enables Rickter to contribute to larger organisational, community and cross-border initiatives while supporting responsible international growth.

Rickter Scale World continues to protect the method’s strategic direction and integrity

To support international expansion, Rickter Scale World granted Insight Reality EU Limited a worldwide licence for the Rickter Scale Method. 

The licence provides a structure through which international partnerships, Associate relationships, practitioner training, organisational implementation and technology-enabled delivery can be developed across different countries and sectors.

Insight Reality EU Limited brings experience in international business development, consortium management, innovation and impact intelligence. Its role enables Rickter to contribute to larger organisational, community and cross-border initiatives while supporting responsible international growth.

Rickter Scale World continues to protect the method’s strategic direction and integrity

To support international expansion, Rickter Scale World granted Insight Reality EU Limited a worldwide licence for the Rickter Scale Method. 

The licence provides a structure through which international partnerships, Associate relationships, practitioner training, organisational implementation and technology-enabled delivery can be developed across different countries and sectors.

Insight Reality EU Limited brings experience in international business development, consortium management, innovation and impact intelligence. Its role enables Rickter to contribute to larger organisational, community and cross-border initiatives while supporting responsible international growth.

Rickter Scale World continues to protect the method’s strategic direction and integrity