What 64% of Adults Carry to Work Every Day Nearly two out of three people at your office have unprocessed

Sixty-four percent of American adults report at least one adverse childhood experience. That means nearly two out of three people you work with carry an invisible weight into the office every day — and most of them have no idea it's affecting their performance, their relationships, or their leadership style.

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The Patterns Nobody Connects Research published in 2025 from Liberty University found that adverse childhood experiences shape workplace behavior in ways most employees and employers never connect to their origin. Difficulties with authority. Challenges with peer trust. Avoidance under stress. Patterns of overwork that look like high performance but are actually hypervigilance — a nervous system running on survival mode that has been compensated around so effectively it looks like drive, decisiveness, and resilience. Until it doesn't.

64% 89% 90% of U.S. adults report at least one of workers perform better when experienced burnout symptoms adverse childhood experience prioritizing health in the past year

A 2025 Wellhub survey of over 5,000 employees across ten countries found that 89% perform better when they prioritize health through structured wellness initiatives — and that 90% experienced burnout symptoms in the past year. The corporate wellness market is booming. But it's still largely treating symptoms rather than measuring root causes.

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What the AFP-60 Reveals SportsFlow's AFP-60 — the Adversity Functioning Profile — is the instrument no corporate wellness platform currently replicates. It doesn't diagnose trauma. It maps how early adversity shows up in current functioning: hypervigilance patterns, emotional numbing, avoidance coping, attachment disruption. When paired with the RS-32's biometric validation, it can identify the executive whose entire leadership style is organized around a dysregulated nervous system. CASE ILLUSTRATION

The Executive Who Ran on Adrenaline

Consider an executive — call her Sarah — who's widely admired for her work ethic, decisiveness, and ability to perform under pressure. She arrives early, stays late, and handles crises with calm authority. Her direct reports respect her. Her board is impressed. By every conventional measure, she's thriving.

But her AFP-60 reveals something different. Childhood emotional neglect has produced a hypervigilance pattern that drives her relentlessly — not toward genuine engagement, but away from the vulnerability she learned was unsafe. Her RS-32, cross-referencing her wearable data, shows suppressed HRV, fragmented sleep, and elevated resting heart rate — the physiological fingerprint of a nervous system that has been running on high alert for decades.

She doesn't need more productivity tips. She needs nervous system regulation. And until someone measures what's actually happening underneath the performance, no wellness program will touch the real issue.

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The Attunement Factor The Attunement Score (EA-32) is equally relevant. In SportsFlow's athletic context, it identifies the emotional hub in a rowing crew — the person whose emotional state most influences the group. In a corporate team, the same construct identifies the leader whose mood cascades through the organization. High attunement in a coherent leader produces measurably higher team synchronization than high attunement in an incoherent one. The difference isn't personality. It's a measurable capacity.

The boardroom is a boat. The leader's nervous system sets the rhythm. And when that nervous system has been organized around unprocessed adversity for thirty years, the entire organization rows to a dysregulated beat — and calls it culture.

Fifty-eight percent of CEOs say wellbeing is critical to financial success. The question is whether they're measuring the right things — or whether the entire corporate wellness industry is optimizing surface metrics while the foundational patterns that actually drive performance, burnout, and leadership quality remain invisible.