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 a character trait—rooted in integrity, shaped by discipline, and demonstrated through consistent behavior. It serves as the foundation for sustainable, high-performance leadership, functioning as an integrated system of skills that are developed, measured, and scaled. Through the Prosperity Trait System, organizations gain a structured method for cultivating these skills and applying them to drive meaningful, enterprise-level outcomes.

Leaders who embody The Prosperity Trait operate from a systems mindset, transforming uncertainty into opportunity and reframing challenges as engines for growth. They deliver near-term results while building the systems that sustain long-term value—aligning execution with enduring impact. Their ability to navigate ambiguity with strategic clarity enables them to set bold goals, drive innovation, and maintain resilience across conditions.

More than a mindset, The Prosperity Trait becomes the operating system for leadership effectiveness. It enhances focus, discipline, and agility—amplifying executional strength and reducing variability between potential and performance. Leaders build high-accountability cultures rooted in ownership, alignment, and measurable outcomes. Through talent optimization and structured culture-building, they increase engagement, retention, and the consistent realization of business goals.

By reinforcing innovation and change agility as systematized capabilities—not episodic reactions—these leaders create organizations that adapt quickly, respond intelligently to disruption, and lead their markets. The Prosperity Trait transforms leadership into a scalable mechanism for value creation—anchored in systems, driven by data, and sustained by purpose.

Ultimately, this framework equips organizations to hardwire prosperity into their leadership pipeline, operational strategy, and cultural identity—ensuring not just individual development, but enterprise-wide impact that endures.

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 seven 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.