About Dr. Jason Roop
Research shaped by lived experience. Work built for real people.
Dr. Jason Roop is a behavioral scientist, author, speaker, and program developer whose work focuses on identity, human strengths, recovery, leadership, and transformation.
His perspective was not formed through scholarship alone. It grew from lived experience, years of work alongside people navigating recovery, and a persistent question: What changes when people are helped to see their strengths before they are defined by their struggles?
That question became the foundation of the Trait-Based Model and continues to guide Jason's research, writing, teaching, and public work.
Jason's work rests on a simple conviction: people are more than the worst thing that has happened to them, the hardest thing they have done, or the diagnosis used to describe their struggle.