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DR. ALISHA MORELAND CAPUIA

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Fear Shapes Systems.
Leadership Can Transform Them.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

Faculty, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior

Psychiatrist • Author • Researcher • Systems Change Leader

Dr. Moreland-Capuia helps organizations address burnout, mistrust, cultural breakdown, and stalled change through trauma-informed leadership grounded in psychiatry, neuroscience, and history.

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

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.

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Neuroscience

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

Clinical Expertise 

Translating psychiatry and neuroscience into practical leadership strategies.

Systems & Policy

Helping organizations strengthen culture, policy, and institutional performance.

Organizational Transformation 

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

From Research to Systems Change

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About

Dr. Moreland-Capuia’s research and curriculum shaped Training for Change and now guide the Institute for Trauma-Informed Systems Change at McLean Hospital and the emerging Angola Institute. She brings this work to leaders and organizations nationally and internationally. Her books and peer-reviewed scholarship continue to advance trauma-informed leadership, organizational resilience, and healthier systems.

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