Perspectives from GTI's researchers and practitioners on trust, relational wellness, neuroscience, and systemic change.
Leadership
Jacqueline Varoli Grace · April 10, 2026
In a culture that rewards performance above all else, the quiet power of treating people with dignity is consistently overlooked. Jacqueline Grace explores why decency isn't soft — it's structural, measurable, and foundational to every high-trust organization.
Read More →Neuroscience & Measurement
Paul J. Zak, PhD · Frontiers in Digital Health · August 2, 2024
This paper establishes that wearable neuroscience technology can reliably predict mood and emotional states with 90% accuracy — quantifying neurophysiologic peaks and troughs in daily life to assess social-emotional engagement in real time. That is the measurement tool. GTI deploys the same platform to quantify the neurophysiologic impact of relational wellness interventions in schools and organizations — measuring metrics such as mood, emotional peaks and troughs, and social-emotional engagement before and after our programs. The result: verifiable, peer-reviewed evidence of outcomes that funders can evaluate with confidence.
Read Full Article →Research
How do you know a relational wellness program is working? GTI's research framework answers that question before a single session begins. Drawing on peer-reviewed neuroscience and wearable measurement technology, GTI has designed a pre/post methodology to assess shifts in mood, social-emotional engagement, trust, and classroom or organizational climate. This piece outlines the evidence base, the measurement approach, and what GTI intends to demonstrate through its school and organizational pilots.
Read More →GTI Research Institute
Dr. Amrita Subramanian's framework for post-disruptive growth offers a lens for understanding how individuals and systems don't merely recover from disruption — they can be reborn through it, if given the right conditions and tools.
Read More →GTI Research Institute
Concept developed by Dr. Amrita Subramanian, PhD · GTI Research Institute · April 13, 2026
“There are no coincidences in life, I believe.” That conviction, which has guided so much of GTI’s founding work, finds its scientific home in a framework first articulated by Dr. Amrita Subramanian: post-disruptive growth — the idea that disruption, when approached with openness and the right support, does not merely end; it initiates a deeper process of becoming.
Social-emotional development issues cause not only physical and emotional damage, but also widespread societal problems across all ages, sectors, and states. From ineffective leaders in toxic work environments and fractious governments to the bullying of children in schools and the fragmentation of families, social-emotional deficits affect not only individuals, but entire systems. This is the terrain of disruption as GTI understands it — not the dramatic rupture of a single event, but the cumulative weight of relational deficits experienced over a lifetime.
Dr. Subramanian impresses upon her students that “trauma is a teacher.” This sentiment is at the core of post-disruptive growth. Trauma and disruption do not diminish a person’s capacity for transformation — when addressed openly, with vulnerability and understanding, they become the very conditions for it. As Carl Jung taught, pain offers two choices: “to either remain trapped in the egoic repetition of past experiences, or to evolve into a stronger, more resilient version of one’s self.” Post-disruptive growth names the path toward the second choice.
GTI’s evidence-based relational approach was designed to create the conditions for exactly this kind of growth. Participants are first invited to face the current reality: “look in the mirror; observe without judgment; allow life to unfold, controlling likely the only possible piece — how we show up.” This is not passive acceptance. It is the active, courageous work of self-discovery.
Knowing that experiences, beliefs and perceptions shape our personalities, behaviors, and realities, GTI programming leverages a holistic approach to catalyze transformational growth — helping people become more self-aware, build positive relationships, and become the most dignified versions of themselves. Through GTI’s neuroscience-based methodology, participants learn to embrace the pains of past and present circumstances as invitations for transformation: gifts to grow on a psychic and spiritual journey to be reborn as the most authentic version of one’s being. This is the essence of post-disruptive growth: not a return to what was, but the emergence of what can be.
“The resulting awakening enables people to convert pain into purpose, to be freed from resistance, and be powerfully reborn.”
Post-disruptive growth is most powerful when the conditions for it are built early. School employees have the ability to nurture or destroy the confidence, creativity, and contribution of our children — as well as the next two to three generations. GTI’s secondary focus on schools and early education is not incidental; it is strategic. 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?
The answer, for GTI, is unambiguous. Through research, advocacy, and collaboration, we aim to:
GTI builds upon existing education and expertise to form a compilation of proven neuroscience models and practices to be deployed and scaled. Its programming and approach are based in Human and Organizational Systems Theory, Cognitive-Behavioral Change, Adult Learning, and Positive Behavior Change to activate intervention strategies across populations. The market is primed in a way it could not be thirteen years ago: social-emotional learning is embedded in school programs, mental health access is becoming mainstreamed, and a new generation of employees is demanding work-life balance.
Through a wrap-around approach, 365 days a year, GTI will ignite a movement inside organizations — building a sustained change management solution led by a group of people with a shared purpose who prioritize values of decency and human dignity. The work starts with the self and shifts from internal to external. Post-disruptive growth is not a concept to be studied from a distance. It is a lived process, available to anyone willing to face the mirror, embrace the lesson, and take the first step forward.
Many people want change. Youth are demanding it through their workplace choices and their dire need for mental health support. The time is now. We hope you will join in and serve as an ambassador for decency, for dignity, for change.
Concept developed by Dr. Amrita Subramanian, PhD · GTI Research Institute · 2026