Jordan Vallejo is the founder of the Transformation Management Institute™ and the principal theorist behind Meaning System Science, a field he established to explain how modern organizations and technologies determine what is happening and sustain coordination under complexity. His work is organized into the Institute’s three research programs: the General Theory of Interpretation (GTOI), the Institute’s primary theoretical program; System Existence Theory (SET), which specifies when system is an admissible category of analysis; and Transformation Science, which examines coordinated change attempts as time-extended system events under constraint.

Jordan’s research defines the Institute’s core publications, including The Physics of Becoming, AI as a Meaning System, and the A–D Series that establish the field’s architecture, governance work, and technical standards. Across these programs, his work specifies the structural conditions required for reliable interpretation, coherent system claims, and analyzable transformation, so breakdowns can be addressed diagnostically rather than reduced to communication or leadership issues.

His professional background spans enterprise operations, transformation leadership, and governance design in large financial services organizations. He began as a department trainer and mentor, building onboarding models, capability programs, and performance frameworks, and later moved into enterprise transformation roles supporting operating model redesign, process modernization, workforce development, and large-scale technology transitions.

As automation and AI increasingly mediate decisions, his work converged on governance: trust, accountability, and authority in environments where evidence is indirect and judgment is distributed across systems. The Institute was founded in response to this gap as an open, non-commercial research initiative focused on making these conditions legible and governable.

At the Institute, Jordan also develops applied standards and instruments that translate the research into professional practice, including the Interpretation Field Studies (IFS) series, the 3E Standard™, the 3E Method™, and the Legitimacy Diagnostic Protocol (LDP-1.0). His work draws from systems theory, semantics, affective science, and developmental psychology to move transformation beyond personality-driven leadership models and tactic-level fixes.

Alongside his research, Jordan continues to work in industry to keep the theory grounded in operational reality.