Research grounded in strength. Evidence built for real-world change.
Jason studies how identity, adversity, and human strengths shape recovery, leadership, prevention, and lasting change. His work connects behavioral science with practical tools for the people and systems doing this work every day.
Identity and Recovery
Examining what changes when people are seen through their strengths, values, and capacity for growth.
Leadership Through Adversity
Studying how lived experience can develop authenticity, resilience, empathy, and transformative leadership.
Applied Human Development
Translating research into practical models for prevention, workplaces, recovery programs, and communities.
Peer-Reviewed Work
Selected research and publications
A Qualitative Study on the Leadership Traits of People With Substance Use Disorder
Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
Addiction and Leadership: How Authentic and Transformative Leaders Are Emerging from the Adversity of Substance Use Disorder
Unexpected Heroes: How People in Addiction Recovery Can Help Solve the Crisis of the Great Resignation
