RESEARCH
Recent Research
Latest papers and working research from Dr. Dennis Rebelo, published on Academia.edu.
Narrative Research Group
FOUNDATIONAL FINDINGS
The Research, in Five Findings
What the Work Has Taught Us About Identity & Leadership
Five foundational findings drawn from years of phenomenological research into how people become who they are — and how leaders are truly made.
Dr. Dennis Rebelo · Narrative Research Group
People are the experts on their own lives.
StoryPathing™ shows that when someone works through their own experiences in a structured way, they reach insights about who they are that no outside test or expert assessment can hand them. Leadership growth works best when it’s led by the person, not done to them.
There’s a missing layer in human performance.
We talk about IQ and EQ, but there’s a third capacity that matters more than either: the ability to know where you stand, where you’re headed, and why. Orienting Intelligence™ is what steers all your other strengths — and most performance models leave it out.
Leaders aren’t built by stacking up skills.
Real leadership doesn’t come from adding one competency on top of another like a checklist. It grows from the whole person — their story, their sense of direction, and how they show up in practice, all working together. That’s why so much traditional leadership training doesn’t stick.
The turning-point stories are where leaders are made.
Our biggest, highest-stakes moments carry the most meaning. PeakStory™ is the practice of naming those moments and drawing direction from them — turning lived experience into lasting leadership.
The best insights come from lived experience, not measurement.
People’s actual, described experiences — not scores on a scale — are the right starting point for understanding how identity and leadership really take shape.
Grounded in descriptive phenomenology and the study of narrative identity.
StoryPathing™ · Orienting Intelligence™ · PeakStory™
