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DR. ALISHA MORELAND CAPUIA

Building Healthier Organizations

Through Trauma-Informed Leadership

Harvard Medical School Professor
Center for Law, Brain & Behavior Faculty

Physician • International Keynote Speaker


 

Helping leaders build healthier organizations through evidence-based trauma-informed leadership.

Trusted by leaders across healthcare, education, business, and government.

The Science Behind Healthier Organizations 

Dr. Alisha Moreland Capuia helps organizations understand how trauma shapes leadership, decision-making, workplace culture, and institutional performance. By integrating psychiatry, neuroscience, and systems change, she helps organizations build healthier cultures, stronger leaders, and higher-performing teams.

Research translated into organizational transformation.

Neuroscience

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Understanding how trauma shapes the brain, behavior, leadership, and decision-making.
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Clinical Expertise 

Translating psychiatry and neuroscience into practical leadership strategies.
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Systems & Policy

Helping organizations strengthen culture, policy, and institutional performance.
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Organizational Transformation 

Creating healthier organizations through evidence-based trauma-informed leadership and systems change. 

Testimonials

[Dr. AMC] is quite simply an extraordinary individual. She has the exceedingly rare combination of an immense intellect, a generous heart, and a staggeringly powerful drive to better the lives of all those fortunate enough to know her.
Although leadership seems to flow through her organically, she is unafraid to be a lifetime student who is more interested in how she can continue to develop than what she already knows.
 

Not one to ruminate over obstacles, Alisha is a living example of the power of determination. She wastes no time sorting through the muck of human-made complications. negativity, and excuses. Instead, Alisha is solution-driven and apt to problem solve using clear-thinking to exercise precise judgment.

In short, people of Alisha's rectitude are seldom encountered and if one is blessed with the opportunity to even ever so slightly brush paths with her, they will be a better human being for having done so.

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 - Mark Shelnutt, MD MPH

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Keynote Speaker

As a double board-certified addiction psychiatrist, acclaimed speaker, author, and researcher, she leaves every audience energized, enlightened, and inspired. 

For over 15 years, Dr. AMC has been a go-to expert in trauma-informed practice, helping organizations and communities better understand how trauma shapes individuals, systems, and outcomes.

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About

Dr. AMC’s work and research led to the development of a widely used curriculum that became the foundation of her textbook, Training for Change. This framework now anchors the mission of her institute at McLean Hospital/Harvard and in Angola, Africa. She has been invited to speak on this work nationally and internationally, and the framework has been used by organizations of all sizes to support organizational development and growth. Through this work, her institute has produced numerous peer-reviewed publications and continues to advance the field of trauma-informed practice.

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