About LTR

Long Training+Research is led by Dr. Stephen Long, equipping managers with the skills to successfully drive key business outcomes by shaping leaders' and teams' mindset, behaviors, and capabilities, including change, leadership effectiveness, productivity, talent optimization, strategy execution, innovation, and culture. LTR is a catalyst for transformational growth, ensuring that businesses not only survive but thrive in an ever-changing landscape. An expert in behavior change and psychometrics, Dr. Long combines a unique blend of applied research, academic rigor, practical tools and strategies, and real-world experience to propel growth across industries. We not only deliver Human Performance, we live it. Tell me more about Business Outcomes.
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The Prosperity Trait®

The Prosperity Trait® is not a program, framework, or intervention. It is a platform for human growth—a behavioral infrastructure that makes the capacity to change and grow measurable, developable, and scalable over time. Rather than describing people or prescribing behaviors, the Prosperity Trait operates as an integrated system that governs how behavior is formed, reinforced, and verified across individuals and organizations.

At the platform level, the Prosperity Trait unifies measurement, development, and verification into a single architecture. Capabilities that are often treated as abstract or episodic—such as discipline, focus, adaptability, and resilience—are operationalized as system-level inputs that are strengthened, tracked, and applied consistently. This allows organizations to move beyond isolated development efforts and instead own a repeatable mechanism for producing growth at scale.

Leaders developed within the Prosperity Trait platform do not rely on personality, motivation, or circumstance to perform. They operate from a systems orientation, using structure rather than willpower to convert uncertainty into opportunity. Because their development is embedded in a platform rather than an event, they are able to deliver near-term results while simultaneously building the behavioral infrastructure that sustains long-term value. Execution and strategy are no longer separate conversations; they are integrated outcomes of the same system.

Over time, the Prosperity Trait functions as an operating system for leadership effectiveness and human performance. It reduces variability between potential and performance by replacing ad hoc decision-making with disciplined, repeatable processes. Leaders become more precise, more adaptive, and more consistent—not because they try harder, but because the system they operate within demands less friction and fewer compensatory behaviors. Accountability becomes structural rather than personal, and performance becomes predictable rather than episodic.

At the organizational level, the platform enables talent optimization and culture-building as governed processes rather than aspirational goals. Innovation, change agility, and execution under pressure are no longer reactive responses; they are systematized capabilities that persist across roles, teams, and market conditions. This creates organizations that adapt quickly, respond intelligently to disruption, and maintain coherence as they scale.

Ultimately, the Prosperity Trait platform allows organizations to own growth itself—not as a mindset, but as an enterprise capability. By embedding behavioral development into measurement, governance, and execution, the platform hardwires prosperity into leadership pipelines, operating models, and cultural identity. The result is not just individual development, but durable, enterprise-level value creation that endures over time.

Stephen Long, PhD

Founder of The Prosperity Trait® | Licensed IP Platform for Scalable Human Performance & Measurable Business Outcomes

Dr. Stephen Long is the founder of Long Training+Research and the creator of The Prosperity Trait®, a proprietary psychological model that identifies and develops the human attribute responsible for value creation.

At the core of his intellectual property is the Prosperity Trait Index© (PTi)—a psychometric instrument that quantifies the behaviors and executive functions that drive leadership, productivity, and organizational performance. His IP platform powers a suite of training programs, certification tracks, and advisory systems designed to scale leadership development across industries. Dr. Long transformed executive coaching from a human performance practice into a repeatable, scalable system—anchored in psychometrics, grounded in behavioral science, and proven to drive enterprise performance.

Licensed by consultants and adopted by organizations, Dr. Long’s work delivers measurable improvements across eight key business outcomes—from culture to strategy execution. His research-backed tools enable companies to hardwire human performance into business strategy—creating sustainable value through their people.

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Industries

Long Training+Research partners with a diverse clientele. However, they share one thing in common — outstanding results. We partner with boards, management teams, in-house training departments, leadership academies, and business owners and franchisees. Clients have experienced outstanding results from the following industries: •Education & Training •Private Equity •Start-Ups •Finance •Tourism •Military •Media & Entertainment •Professional Services •Consulting •Sales •Executive Search •College and Professional Sports
Time-tested, yet innovative. Universally applied, yet organizationally specific. Complex in origin, yet simply communicated. It's what we do. It's all we do. Nobody does it better.