The LOV Center

Our Research Institute for Thriving Organizational Cultures

The Leader and Organization Vitality (LOV) Center bridges academic research and the business world by partnering with leading scientists to create evidence-based tools and programs that help leaders, teams, and organizations thrive.

Bridging Research and Practice

The LOV Center was created to advance the science of leadership, well-being, organizational culture, and performance.

Through research partnerships, assessment development, and applied organizational studies, we help translate research into practical tools that create meaningful impact for leaders and organizations.

What We Study:

Leadership Research

Leadership research at the LOV Center focuses on Leader Vitality, Leadership Well-Being, and Positive Leadership. We explore how leaders perform at their highest capacity while building positive relationships, strengthening resilience, and creating the conditions for sustainable high performance.

Teams & Organizations Research

Using the 5Cs Model and the Principles 5Cs Assessment, we study team dynamics, employee satisfaction, organizational culture, and performance. Our goal is to help organizations understand and improve the human systems that drive results.

Academic Partnerships

The LOV Center partners with Claremont University’s Leader and Organization Vitality Lab (LOV Lab), a community of advanced graduate students and researchers in positive psychology, organizational psychology, leadership, and organizational behavior. Together, we contribute to research shaping the future of work.

Research That Creates Real-World Impact

The Foundations of Thriving Organizations

The LOV Center's research examines the interconnected factors that contribute to thriving leaders, positive cultures, and organizational effectiveness.

Organizational Focus

With Positive Leadership as a guiding framework, leaders learn how to transfer positive relational energy to others. This results in uplifting their team and organization to be more creative, energized, productive, and engaged.

Positive leadership

Positive Leaders encourage, empower, energize and enhance the well-being and positive functioning of others.

leader vitality

Cultivating your vitality gives you the inner energy resources to serve others from a place of abundance. Vitality is foundational to positive leadership.

leadership well-being

Caring for your well-being using the PERMA+4 model creates the foundation to build your vitality.

The insights developed through the LOV Center help inform Connected EC’s coaching, team development, organizational consulting, assessments, and leadership programs. Our goal is simple: transform research into practical solutions that help leaders, teams, and organizations thrive.

Let's Connect

Ready to Build a Thriving Organizational Culture?

Learn how Connected EC combines research, assessment, and practical application to help leaders and organizations create lasting impact.

You’re in!

#1 New Release — Workplace Behavior & Business Teams

Get the First Chapter FREE

Discover the research-backed principles behind thriving teams and organizational cultures—and get an introduction to the 5Cs Model before you read the full book.

By downloading this chapter, you’ll also receive occasional leadership insights and research updates from Connected EC. You may unsubscribe at any time.