Curious Integrative Wellness | August 2025

Emotional Metabolism™ & Human-Centered High Performance™

The modern workforce is operating under unrelenting stress, disengagement, and uncertainty.

According to Gallup (2024), only 23% of employees are engaged, while 50% of U.S. workers rate their overall life evaluation poorly. Burnout and emotional dysregulation are now primary drivers of turnover, healthcare costs, and declining performance.

Traditional stress management and leadership programs focus on awareness but fail to build capacity. What’s missing is a proprietary, human-centered system that links emotional safety to measurable business outcomes.

At Curious Leadership Institute (CLI), we’ve developed two breakthrough frameworks designed to meet this need:

• Emotional Metabolism™ – A root-cause, habit-based framework teaching leaders and employees to metabolize emotions in real time.
• Human-Centered High Performance™ – A systemic model aligning emotional coherence, psychological safety, and workforce well-being with sustained organizational results.

Together, these frameworks build cultures of resilience, coherence, and excellence.

1. The Great Detachment

The Challenge: Workers are disconnected from purpose and mission (Gallup, 2024).
Our Solution: Emotional Metabolism™ reconnects employees through the 3F™ rituals. Human-Centered High Performance™ embeds belonging as a core performance driver.

2. Manager Burnout

The Challenge: Only 27% of managers are engaged (Gallup, 2025).
Our Solution: Reset Labs™ train managers in the 3F Reset™, helping them metabolize stress and model resilience. Human-Centered High Performance™ equips managers to lead with coherence and link resilience directly to productivity outcomes.

3. Employee Well-Being Crisis

The Challenge: Only one-third of employees report thriving (Gallup, 2024).
Our Solution: Emotional Metabolism™ equips employees with a life skill for metabolizing emotional “waste.” Human-Centered High Performance™ translates well-being into measurable ROI—reducing healthcare costs, absenteeism, and turnover.

4. Hybrid & Innovation Strain

The Challenge: Hybrid work weakens collaboration and innovation (Bloom, 2024).
Our Solution: Emotional Metabolism™ offers shared coherence resets across teams. Human-Centered High Performance™ transforms hybrid rituals into psychological safety practices that spark creativity and innovation.

5. Talent & Inclusion Pressure

The Challenge: Employees demand equity, belonging, and safety (Oracle, 2024).
Our Solution: Emotional Metabolism™ helps leaders metabolize triggers before reacting, reducing bias. Human-Centered High Performance™ operationalizes inclusion as a performance multiplier.

6. Performance Under Uncertainty

The Challenge: Economic volatility and AI disruption overwhelm leaders (SHRM, 2025).
Our Solution: Emotional Metabolism™ uses the State-Shift Framework™ to detect dysregulation early and reset. 

Human-Centered High Performance™ anchors adaptive resilience as the foundation for thriving under uncertainty.

✔ Proprietary IP – Exclusive to Curious Leadership Institute.
✔ Root-Cause + Performance Alignment – Emotional safety is not “soft”; it’s the foundation of measurable results.
✔ Habit-Based – Everyday practices (3F Reset™, team coherence rituals) become organizational muscle memory.
✔ Measurable ROI – Stress data, HRV, engagement metrics, and productivity outcomes demonstrate impact.

The workforce crisis is no longer just about burnout. It’s about the inability to sustain human-centered high performance in a dysregulated world.

Emotional Metabolism™ and Human-Centered High Performance™ provide proprietary, systemic solutions that transform organizational culture into coherent, innovative, high-performing ecosystems.

Next Step: Bring a Reset Lab™ to your organization and experience the shift.

• Gallup. (2024). State of the Global Workplace Report. Gallup, Inc.
• Gallup. (2025). Workplace Challenges 2025. Gallup, Inc.
• Bloom, N. (2024). Hybrid Work and Organizational Creativity. Stanford University.
• Oracle. (2024). CHRO Challenges 2024 Report. Oracle Corporation.
• SHRM. (2025). Future of Work and Leadership Trends. Society for Human Resource Management.

Emotional Metabolism™, Free • Feel • Flow™, 3F Reset™, Reset Labs™, State-Shift Framework™, and Human-Centered High Performance™ are proprietary frameworks developed and owned by Dr. Claudia Coker and the Curious Leadership Institute / Curious Integrative Wellness. All rights reserved. Written permission is required to reproduce, adapt, or implement any part of these frameworks.