Who We Are
We are a purpose-driven organization of global experts and change-makers working collaboratively to prioritize relational wellness, influence and inspire relational action, and deliver sustainable, measurable solutions to relational deficits to help people and societies thrive.
Our Mission
To transform the world through healthier relationships workplaces, schools, homes, and communities.
Our Vision
A world where people prioritize relationships, decency, and human dignity in all channels of life, resulting in healthier, more effective outcomes in work, learning, love, play, and the culture at large
Our Board
Paul Zak, PhD
Chair, Science Committee
Paul J. Zak is an American neuroeconomist, author, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering research on the neurochemical oxytocin. A Distinguished University Professor at Claremont Graduate University, he is the founding director of its Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and among the top 0.3% of most-cited scientists worldwide. Zak earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania after completing undergraduate studies in mathematics and economics at San Diego State University, followed by post-doctoral training in neuroimaging at Harvard. Credited with coining the term “neuroeconomics,” his discovery that oxytocin fosters trust led him to call it the “moral molecule.” Zak’s bestselling books include The Moral Molecule, Trust Factor, and Immersion. In 2017, he founded Immersion Neuroscience, a software company that measures emotional engagement in real time. A TED speaker and frequent media guest, his work has shaped leadership, marketing, and cultural understanding, earning him the nickname “Dr. Love.”
Amrita Subramanian, PhD
Chair, Growth Committee
Amrita Subramanian is a leadership scholar-practitioner with 22+ years of executive experience across Asia, Europe, and the U.S. A Wharton-affiliated educator, she teaches in Penn’s Organizational Dynamics program as lead faculty for the Leadership Coaching Certificate. An author, speaker, and advisor, she helps boards and executive teams thrive amid turbulence by creating psychologically safe environments for dialogue and courageous action. Her courses on Organizational Paradoxes and Post-Disruptive Growth examine patterns of chaos, adaptable networks, relational equity, and decision-making in complex conditions. Amrita previously held leadership roles across industries, directing operations, banking services, strategy, and regional talent management. She is president and founder of a global firm advancing post-disruptive growth and was nominated for distinguished teaching in Penn’s Liberal and Professional Studies. Clients include Fortune 500 enterprises. Beyond work, she travels and writes, collecting spices, stories, and connections; she also loves astronomy and mythology, inspired by Carl Sagan and Joseph Campbell.
Jacqueline Varoli Grace, MSOD
Founder & CEO
Jacqueline Grace, MSOD, brings decades of private and public sector executive leadership, organizational consulting, and leadership coaching experience, as the founder of the Global Transformation Initiative. She integrates neuroscience, trauma research, and relationship science to advance trust, decency, dignity, and resilience. Her frameworks, I.A.M.™ and R-360-5™, equip leaders, educators, and communities for transformative impact. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Division I athlete in both basketball and crew, Jacqueline brings the discipline and resilience of athletics into her professional practice. She has held senior roles across nonprofit, corporate, and international organizations, and is recognized for her ability to mobilize systems change while keeping relational decency at the center. Her mission is to empower leaders, families, and communities to build stronger bonds and healthier societies.
Isabelle Melone BS
Learning and Curriculum Advisor
Isabelle Melone, BA, is a Curriculum Advisor for GTI. A summa cum laude graduate of Colgate University in Psychological Sciences with a minor in Global Public and Environmental Health, she brings passion for mental health equity and expertise in holistic, community-based approaches to public health and education.
Stephen C. Rose, PhD
Scientific Advisor and Systems Analyst
Stephen Rose brings more than 30 years of work at the intersection of wellness, science, and human development to the Global Transformation Initiative. With a PhD in Bioengineering, postgraduate training at Harvard, and an M.S. in Operations Research—his journey has ranged from designing cooperative food distribution systems to 3D organ models of fibrosis, studies of senescent cells, and investigations into how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) accelerate biological aging. Also a published author and former Marine, he combines rigor, resilience, and service. At GTI, Stephen integrates scientific evidence with relational systems analysis, advancing trust, dignity, and decency as measurable foundations for healthier, more connected organizations and communities.
What We Do: GTI Creating Relational Wellness
Healthy reationships change lives, communities, and the world. GTI synthesizes proven methods to enhance societal understanding, introduces an innovative delivery model, and activates effective collective action toward measurable solutions for businesses, schools, and communities. Further, the GTI-SIX partnership measures outcomes through proprietary technology and uses the data to inform reiterative learning.
GTI focuses on how human and organizational systems are influenced by their internal and external environment and expressed in their functioning. GTI works with the “whole” person, and all the relationships within the organizational system, to address organizational culture, development, growth or decline. GTI explores and addresses the complex interconnections between the elements—the What and the How.
Beyond these foundational approaches, GTI works at the cross-point of relational health and brain health, recognizing that human connection is not only a social imperative, but a neurological one. By linking relational wellness with emerging brain science, GTI helps schools, workplaces, and communities foster resilience, empathy, and trust.
At its core, GTI is about systems change. We aim not only to improve individual skills, but to transform the structures, cultures, and collective behaviors that shape our shared future. Trauma—big or small—is an opportunity to grow—for students, the teachers, employers, employees, parents and leaders of all kinds.
GTI employs a three-pronged approach to behavior change. GTI Informs, Activates, and Measures through its I.A.M.™ approach and its trauma-informed Relationship 360-5™ program. GTI’s mechanism of action combines proven science-based skill-building programs with coaching and wearable technology. It's convenings foster collective action to build a movement prioritizing Relational Wellness.
Inform:
GTI believes that trauma is the foundation of many interlocking social-emotional and behavioral problems, as well as a force shaping personalities. People bring their emotional selves to work and to schools. Digital overuse is identified as a complication in cognitive and social skill development, with brain deficits similar to those of trauma victims. But, trauma –big or small—is an opportunity to grow—for students, the teacher, employers, employees, parents and leaders of all kinds.
Activate:
Provides change-making solutions to manifestations of workplace, school, societal dysfunction. The GTI model leverages trauma-informed trust-building, mindfulness, and communications tactics to prioritize people and increase productivity. Psychological and coaching theories anchor the GTI programming to rewrite brain patterns, producing both healing and growth.
GTI summits convene leaders in relational wellness, neuroscience, education, and community health to co-design solutions for one of our era’s most urgent challenges: rebuilding the fabric of trust, dignity, and connection. Through our I.A.M.™ process (Inform–Activate–Measure) and our 360-5™ model (addressing self, family, school, work, and community), participants move beyond problem analysis into strategy, action, and measurable cultural change.
Each summit is designed as a catalyst: a gathering place where researchers, educators, administrators, and community stakeholders share evidence, assess gaps, and build campaigns that turn relationship science into practice. Together, we measure what matters most — safer schools, healthier families, more resilient workplaces, and stronger communities.
Measure:
Through our Relationships Matter movement and summit, and the digital delivery of our Relationship 360-5 Programs for Schools, Home, and at Work.
The Global Transformation Initiative measures the impact of the advancement of relationship science within communities.
Where We Do It
GTI’s trauma-informed Relationship 360-5™ program leverages its I.A.M.™ approach to behavior change. Through this layered process, GTI fuses neuroscience, psychological and coaching theories, and skill-building practices to reorder societies — empowering individuals, teams, and institutions with relational wellness as a core value.
Our Partners: Schools, businesses, media, and entertainment, religious institutions, and government
GTI In Schools: GTI aims to contribute to education reform through its delivery of trauma informed relational skill-building curricula and real-time measurement with the SIX app for students, teachers, and parents. Evidence-based methodologies that foster safety, empathy, and resilience improve engagement, retention, and school culture.
GTI in Businesses GTI consulting and coaching is for people who care about how they show up in the world —at work, at home, and in their communities; professionals, educators, and parents who want to have a lasting positive impact on those within their spheres of influence.Knowing that good people follow good leaders, GTI empowers executives, leaders, and teams to build trust by valuing human dignity, decency, and the concept of relationship. Our consulting and coaching services are designed to create transformational shifts in cultures at work and in homes, creating measurable and sustainable change.
GTI Movement
Post-Disruptive Growth as the Path Forward
We live in an era defined by disruption—pandemics, polarization, technological upheaval, and economic instability. These shocks have fractured trust, strained families, destabilized schools, and left many communities reeling. Left unchecked, such turbulence risks deepening divisions and normalizing disconnection, where efficiency and transactions replace dignity and relationships as the measure of progress.
Yet disruption also carries a seed of renewal. GTI documents a societal challenge—hostile communications and actions in workplaces, schools, and homes across groups, states, and societies—and promotes an initiative as a valuable resource to address root causes. The question is not simply how we survive disruption, but how we emerge stronger—more connected, more decent, and more human. GTI believes this is the essence of post-disruptive growth: the opportunity to reorder society so that relationships become the foundation of resilience and thriving. The solution needs to match the size of the problem and an all-hands-on deck approach is required.
GTI operationalizes this by teaching relational skills that enable people to face conflict, change, and uncertainty with dignity; by embedding trauma-informed practices that transform wounds into pathways of healing; by equipping leaders and teams to model compassion and decency as sources of innovation and resilience; and by building collective action frameworks that extend growth beyond organizations to families and communities. Through our wrap-around 360 approach, 365 days a year, GTI will ignite a movement inside organizations, schools and homes, building a sustained change management solution led by a group of people with a shared purpose who prioritize values of decency and human dignity.
Since we know that great people gravitate toward great leaders, the GTI work starts with the leaders. Please join us.
In GTI’s framing, post-disruptive growth is more than recovery—it is a moment of awakening, an invitation to reorganize our world around trust, healing, and human dignity. In a future where disruption will only accelerate, GTI offers the tools, frameworks, and movement to ensure we grow stronger together.
The time has come to look in the mirror, embrace the opportunities to learn from challenges and solutions, and engage the value zone in the dialogue around decency, human dignity, and relationships.
The GTI model is a critical tool in unifying a movement of like-minded people to facilitating such growth across industries and states.
This work requires allies at every level. Our sponsors and partners provide the essential resources that fuel GTI’s early growth and amplify our reach into schools, companies, and communities. Our volunteers and everyday citizens carry this vision into daily life, modeling relational decency and building momentum from the ground up.
The output of GTI’s work is a global movement of like-minded people: local, national and global leaders, employers and employees who care about how they show up in the world, at work, at home and in their communities; professionals, educators, coaches, and parents who want to track and have a lasting positive impact on their teams, companies, clients, students, families, and the world. Its profit is measured by the number of advanced lives and work cultures shifted to improve wellbeing and productivity, reduced personal and organizational risk, and impact realized in their communities.
Together, we can transform disruption into renewal. By joining us—whether as a resource provider, a movement-builder, or both—you help lay the foundation for a world where human dignity and connection drive growth, not division.
Is it not time to launch a movement that champions the teaching of not only basic social-emotional skills, but also relationship, decency, and human dignity in institutions and homes? Is it not time to align societal value systems with the culture we desire, and teach the awareness necessary to do so? Such a movement has transformational potential.
Take the Pledge: Join us to stand for decency and human dignity and to put people and relationships first!