WHY NONE OF IT HAS WORKED
For decades, corporations have attacked symptoms without identifying the disease.
Wellness programs. EAPs. Engagement initiatives. Retention strategies. Healthcare cost containment. Billions spent, and the needle barely moves.
Every initiative that ignores the root cause is mopping the floor while the pipe is still broken.
> Need help nowIt does not appear on any dashboard you own.
There is no line item for childhood trauma. So the cost is recorded under other names — turnover, claims, absence, disengagement, conflict. The bill arrives every quarter. Nobody reads the sender.
THE NUMBER
$2 trillion a year.
for the Fortune 2,000 onlyThe annual cost of childhood trauma to Corporate America.
Bottom-up
Per-worker cost × affected workers
$2.016T
Top-down
Category-by-category summation
$2.004T
Benchmark
Validated against McKinsey, Gallup, CDC
$1.5–2.5T
Calculator
Company-specific extrapolation
$1.89T
Four independent methods. One conclusion. This is not an estimate — it is a convergence.
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We can calculate it. Precisely.
UACT's Corporate Trauma Cost Calculator models a specific organization — its size, its workforce mix, its salary bands — and returns the annual loss walking through the door.
| Organization | Employees | Annual Cost | Per Employee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walmart | 2,100,000 | $9.7 B | $4,619 |
| Amazon | 1,500,000 | $6.9 B | $4,600 |
| Microsoft | 221,000 | $1.8 B | $8,145 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 130,000 | $1.0 B | $7,692 |
Knowledge workers cost more per head — higher salaries mean larger productivity losses. Presenteeism is the largest category, and the one almost nobody measures.
AND YOUR REACH IS FAR LARGER THAN YOUR PAYROLL
130,000 employees. Over 400,000 people.
Your people go home at night. To spouses, children, parents. Put two random adults in a room and there is a 91% chance one of them was wounded as a child. Add a third and it rises to 97%.
The employee with a zero score still lives inside the blast radius of a six.
She lies awake worrying. She declines the promotion that requires travel. She is physically present and mentally elsewhere. Nothing in your data will ever tell you why — because the wound is not hers.
No institution on earth has this kind of access to wounded adults. Not government. Not healthcare. Not the church. You do.
+ Need help nowTHE CERTIFIED TRAUMA RESPONSIVE WORKPLACE
Imagine what an EAP could have been.
Not a phone number on a poster. An organization where managers are trained Practitioners, executives are certified Coaches, and the workforce — and their families — have somewhere real to go.
1
Assess
A full organizational assessment against the four tiers — Unaware, Aware, Informed, Responsive — plus your annual loss analysis.
2
Build
A customized implementation. Managers certified as Practitioners. Leadership certified as Coaches.
3
Certify
Assessed against the published standard. A Certified Trauma Responsive Workplace, verifiable and displayable.
Healing companies. Not a slogan — a measurable state, with a number attached.
+ Need help nowWHERE THIS STANDS TODAY
UACT's first priority is building the healers. The corporate program follows.
The full workplace program opens in 2027, alongside the release of Bleeding in the Boardroom: The $2 Trillion You've Never Measured. Before then, UACT is conducting in-depth assessments and annual loss analyses for a limited number of organizations.
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