Our original and cohesive theory for leading and landing lasting, positive change in individuals, teams, and organizations as fast as humanly possible—from the inside out in order to adapt to the outside-in changes in our complex, disrupted, and challenging reality.
Bio-Transformation® is underpinned by the latest brain, behavior, and complexity science integrated with trauma-informed therapies and wisdom and practices from the contemplative and embodiment traditions.
A Coherent Theory & Map of Human Transformation
30 years in the making, Bio-Transformation® seeks to unlock the blueprint of how to unlock and drive forward lasting transformations in people, teams, organizations, and systems we lead.
All our consulting processes, leadership programs, transformative circles, teamwork engagements, capacity-building programs, courses, tools, toolkits, and content are powered by the results of this work.
A Complex, Adaptive, Living System Approach
Bio-Transformation® or Bio-T® sees human beings—and the teams, organizations, communities, and societies we co-create—as complex, living, adaptive systems rather than as mechanistic, linear, and algorithmic machines.
Complex and adaptive living systems do not change as easily or quickly as machines or lines of code do. Our messy but brilliant human biologies are alive: constantly sensing, seeking, and adapting in real-time.
We all have a highly-tuned and extraordinarily complex physiology and psychology that allows us to adapt to emerging pressures and changes in our environment so we both survive and thrive in constantly shifting systems. All species, all people, all organizations, and all societies evolved over time in a dynamic interplay with nature and nurture.
Therefore we cannot master the change of human beings or human systems without understanding, as best we can, how biologies—hearts, minds, nerves, emotions, beliefs, habits—change.
Bio-T® unifies the best of specific and focused disciplines into a broad yet deep theory and philosophy of human transformation.
Leading Transformation From Cell To Self To System
Bio-Transformation® is a cohesive, coherent, and comprehensive methodology for rapidly and effectively transforming our toughest problems at any scale or level of magnification—from complex personal leadership problems to complex societal challenges.
At the level of leadership development, Bio-T underpins a rigorous leadership curriculum that seeks to accelerate and amplify the development of individuals towards ever-higher degrees of transformational capability so leaders can take on and solve ever-more complex problems in their teams, organizations, and systems.
At the level of teams, Bio-T informs an approach to team development that is driven by brain-based interventions across hearts, minds, and behaviors that resolve interpersonal conflicts, confusions, and breakdowns that are blocking necessary business transformation and organizational change and move teams towards more coherence, resonance, and consilience.
At the level of business units, organizations, and systems, Bio-T unlocks a rigorous yet creative and people-powered approach to innovation and systemic change to unlock more adaptive and future-forward business models, structures, and strategies.
A Multilevel Fractal Framework Working Across Human Biology & Culture
Bio-Transformation® combines, into one coherent method, tools and techniques that cover the four elements of human being: felt senses, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors.
Behaviors: Bio-T draws on heuristics research, behavioral economics, behavioral psychology, sociology, anthropology, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBT), cultural anthropology, rapid-change coaching, growth hacking, commercial advertising/mass behavior change, and persuasion research to help you break destructive habits, rewire nervous systems and social systems, redesign life, leadership, and systemic behaviors—turning inspiration for change into concrete action.
Beliefs: Bio-T draws on brain research, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, continental philosophy, linguistics, psychotherapy, evolutionary theory, mind reprogramming, hypnotherapy, deep ecology, ethnography, Indigenous Knowledge, narrative theory, story editing, systems thinking, complexity science, regenerative design, design thinking, and mass mindset change to help you and your people relinquish outdated assumptions, break through disempowering and obsolete beliefs, and re-invent language patterns, stories, strategies, and plans to forge the future
Emotions: Bio-T draws on affective (emotional) neuroscience, emotional intelligence, interpersonal neurobiology, wisdom traditions (Zen, Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, Dzogchen, Taoism, Shamanism, Ife, Stoicism etc.), relationship therapies, attachment theory, art and sound therapies, voice dialoguing, yoga philosophies, and flow research to help you transform persistent moods (anxiety, stress, depression), build confidence, courage and conscious awareness, and repair relationships with others so everyone can flourish
Felt senses: Bio-T draws on interoceptive science, somatic practices, and trauma therapies (yoga, shamanism, movement medicine, tantra, breathwork, meditation, brainspotting, craniosacral therapy), embodied cognition theories, psychedelic research, elite sports coaching, and transpersonal therapy to help transform trauma, heal wounds, and reorganize around interconnection and collective coherence.
Both A Transformation Theory & Set of Practices To Sustain Transformation
Bio-Transformation® is woven from the very best scientific knowledge and theory unified with concrete and embodied practices from the contemplative sciences, trauma-informed therapies, and coaching.
Bio-T® purposefully brings together the latest science of brain networks, behavioral economics, cognitive psychology, complex systems, and affective neuropsychology and meticulously triangulates it with essential wisdom from Eastern and Western philosophies, contemplative sciences, and indigenous wisdom.
As it is focused on making positive, breakthrough, lasting change happen fast, Bio-T® contains a suite of change ‘hacks’ drawn from the armory of fast-growth entrepreneurship, social activism, mass mindset and behavior change (e.g. advertising and behavioral economics), performance and breakthrough coaching, and disruptive innovation—as well as many embodied practices for rewiring and reorganizing the body from trauma therapies, healing modalities, and mindfulness/meditation and movement disciplines.
8 Principles/ Transformation Lenses To Unlock Change
Bio-T® has at its core 8 elemental principles and/or leadership lenses for mastering transformation in ourselves, our organizations, and our systems. Together, they help accelerate the journey of mastering the science, craft, and wisdom of being truly transformational.
The 8 principles provide an integrated framework that can be applied inside a relationship, a team or family unit, a business unit or company culture, or an entire social system.
We explicitly connect the work of personal development to the work of organizational, systemic, and societal development: making positive change happen in the world.
The History & Development of BTTP
The co-creators of Bio-T, Nick Jankel and Alison McAulay, have spent a combined 50 years attempting to crack the code of transformation.
Nick Jankel is a Cambridge-educated medic, historian and philosopher of science, systemic change explorer, disruptive innovation expert, leadership theorist and developer (and TV transformation coach—BBC, MTV).
Alison McAulay is a former US elite gymnast and contemporary choreographer, trauma therapist, craniosacral therapist, yoga teacher, social entrepreneur, embodied transformation coach, theorist, and embodied leadership expert.
As business partners, life partners, co-parents, and co-theorists, they have codified Bio-Transformation®—evolving and unfolding as it is—into a framework to unlock human and societal development that integrates the latest science, timeless wisdom, and holistic principles that focuses on driving real-world change from the inside out.