The genesis of Ripple Effects Social Learning Software for schools and business is a series of studies begun 15 years ago by Program Designer and Ripple Effects CEO, Alice Ray.

At that time she was Executive Director of a leading child abuse prevention organization, Committee for Children. Her organization's abuse prevention materials were being used in more than 25% of the country's school districts, but she was bothered that prevention efforts rested so heavily on the shoulders of victims and potential victims.

What Would It Take to Stop Aggression?

So she asked a simple question: What would it take for the next generation of young people not to be perpetrators of violence?

In the process of answering that question, not only did she identify core abilities that separate people who injure others from those who don't, she found mounting evidence that the same core abilities - often called emotional intelligence - were major success factors in school and on the job.