About TransformVXR

Transforming Workplace Relationships. Empowering Human Potential.

We exist to unlock the full power of people at work through relationship intelligence, immersive learning, and real-time coaching.

Our Mission

Our mission is to transform how people connect, lead, and grow through:

  • AI-powered immersive learning
  • Real-time, relational coaching
  • Performance optimization through human connection

Our Vision

A world where the most effective way to grow is also the most human—experiential, relational, fun and real-time. In a world where people fear AI will replace them, we believe the opposite:

  • Human skills are the competitive edge.
  • And the time to develop them is now.

Why Transform

The Real Risk Isn’t AI. It’s Disconnection ie under developed human connection.

We live in an era of automation, but the biggest gap isn’t technical. It’s relational. That’s why Transform exists. To build the skills machines can’t: how people relate, lead, and perform at work.

Whether you’re a clinical leader, a frontline manager, or an executive team under pressure, Transform delivers experience first coaching and real time relational skill building which helps your people turn insight into action because the future belongs to those who can connect.

  • Navigating conflict with composure
  • Leading with empathy
  • Building trust across silos
  • Communicating with clarity
  • Sustaining high performance through connection
  • Workplace relationships drive business performance.
  • When automation takes over tasks, human connection becomes your edge.
  • Empathy, communication, and ethical leadership are strategic, not just “soft” skills.
  • These skills can be taught—and practiced—like anything else.
  • Real-time coaching and immersive learning lead to lasting behavior change.
  • Up to 2x output in cross-functional teams
  • 24–40% increase in retention
  • Measurable gains in emotional resilience, leadership trust, and employee engagement

Meet The Founders

Ellie Kazemi & Jonas Acquah

Visionaries in behavioral science, performance optimization, organizational transformation, and the future of learning.

Ellie Kazemi – CEO, Transform

For years, I’ve worked in conflict resolution, helping people navigate tough conversations and bridge the gaps between good intentions and mutual understanding. Across roles with supervisors, students, and leaders, I saw the same pattern: communication and perspective gaps that weren’t about motivation, but about connection.

As a behavioral scientist, professor, and founder of Transform VXR, I combine learning science and technology to help leaders build stronger, more connected workplaces. For over 20 years, I’ve served in executive roles, including Chief Science Officer, and partnered with organizations like NASA and FEMA on training, measurement, and workforce development.

I created Transform VXR to make learning engagement strategies and relational skills accessible and scalable. Our approach blends immersive AI simulations with a framework for relational intelligence that strengthens engagement, communication, and collaboration across teams.

The goal isn’t to offer quick fixes that don’t stick, but to build sustainable relational skills that endure across people and time. When people connect better, they collaborate better, and organizations thrive.

My mission is simple: to help people navigate challenging moments with humility, empathy, and understanding, because better conversations lead to better results, for everyone.

Jonas Acquah – CFO, Transform

I’m a real estate investor and the CFO of Transform, where I combine strategy, finance, and systems thinking to help organizations scale through stronger workplace relationships. My background spans investment banking, capital markets, and enterprise leadership—including roles as Divisional CFO (Business Manager) and Financial Controller at JPMorgan Chase, Head of Center of Excellence for Technology Finance at Chubb, and Head of Business Management for Liquidity Solutions at Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank.

Across these roles, I’ve led complex business transformations, optimized performance through data and disciplined execution, and built financial strategies that expand margins while improving operational clarity. But what’s stuck with me most is this: technical performance doesn’t sustain without relational infrastructure. At SVB, I watched high-performing sales leaders with deep client relationships struggle to scale them—highlighting the need to turn relational intelligence into a repeatable system, not just a personality trait.

I’m a first-generation Ghanaian American, grounded in community, faith, and the belief that business success is inseparable from human connection. At Transform, my mission is simple, to build the strategic, financial, and operational backbone for tools that help optimize and scale business performance by investing in how people work together—especially those long overlooked by traditional leadership models.

Resource Partners

We Don’t Go Alone. We Build With Others.

Transform is powered by a growing network of institutions, collaborators, and researchers who share our belief that relational intelligence changes everything. Together, we’re building the future of work, leadership, and learning.

Strategic Collaborators

From curriculum co-design to technology integration, our collaborators are thought partners who help bring bold ideas to life. These partnerships influence how our tools evolve and how we embed relational intelligence across industries.

Institutional Clients

We work alongside schools, health systems, nonprofits, and enterprises to co-design training that responds to urgent needs—burnout, turnover, leadership gaps, and broken trust.

Research Affiliates

We partner with academic institutions, doctoral researchers, and interdisciplinary scholars to build the evidence base behind our methods and evolve best practices in ethical AI, supervision, and behavior-based coaching.

Designed for Trust at Every Level

Your people, your data, and your relationships are protected by enterprise-grade security, ethical AI design, and clinical standards built for real-world trust.

Data Use & Privacy. Respecting Data, Empowering Growth.

We treat your relational data with the same care you give your clients and teams. Transform’s AI learns to coach more effectively by understanding each user’s unique style, tone, and growth areas. This personalization is designed to improve the experience for that individual, not to retrain our models for broader commercial use.

  • We never use client data to train generic public models
  • All personalized learning stays within your organization’s private instance
  • No data is shared, sold, or repurposed without explicit consent
  • You control how your team’s relational insights are stored, shared, or exported

Human-Centered. Always

Our AI tools are trained to reflect—not replace—relational skill-building. Every AI interaction is designed to enhance human coaching, not remove it.

  • Transparent algorithms and behavior feedback
  • Culture-sensitive language models
  • Continuous monitoring for ethical AI use

Built for Trust, Backed by Experience.

Transform was designed with clinicians and enterprise leaders in mind. We uphold the highest standards of ethical training, coaching, and data integrity.

  • Aligned with BACB, APA, and SHRM principles
  • Informed consent and opt-in learning
  • Secure infrastructure and role-based access controls
  • Designed to support organizational compliance needs
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