About the Transformation Management Institute™
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Who We Are
The Transformation Management Institute™ was created to give leaders a clearer way to understand transformation, not as a project or a communications effort, but as a meaning system that shapes how an organization thinks, decides, and evolves.
People sometimes compare TMI to the Project Management Institute. The distinction is straightforward.
PMI governs projects.
TMI governs transformation.
PMI focuses on delivery.
TMI focuses on meaning, authority, structure, and aligned action, the foundations that give transformation its integrity.
Transformation crosses silos. It changes how people interpret their roles and how decisions are made. It requires a shared understanding of what is true and what the system is trying to become.
This is the work of TMI.
What We Do
TMI develops the scientific foundations and professional standards behind coherent transformation.
This includes Meaning System Science, Transformation Science, the Law of Moral Proportion, the 3E Standard, the 3E Method, LDP-1.0, and the Five Sciences of Meaning.
These frameworks grew from real work inside organizations: leading change, building operating structures, and watching familiar patterns emerge whenever decisions, authority, and purpose were not aligned.
TMI turns those recurring patterns into a clear, teachable discipline.
Why We Exist
Across industries, transformation demands more of leaders than any project methodology can explain. People can sense when direction is unclear, when decisions conflict, and when structures no longer match the work. But there was no shared framework to describe these dynamics or address them.
TMI was created to give leaders that framework.
Transformation needs its own science: not more enthusiasm or more templates, but a way to understand the meaning architecture inside systems and how it organizes behavior, decisions, and legitimacy as organizations evolve.
The full structure is presented in The Charter, the founding document of Meaning System Science.
→ Read the Charter
It offers the clearest expression of this work.
—Jordan Vallejo, PMP®
Founder & Principal Researcher, Transformation Management Institute™