Investing in brain health innovations to unlock human flourishing and peak performance.

LAUNCHING THE BRAIN HEALTH MATRIX:

A Bold Move Toward Measurable Brain Capital

At Brain Capital Houston, Blue Ash Ventures (BA) is proud to unveil the Brain Health Matrix (BHM) - a groundbreaking, research-backed framework designed to integrate brain health and mental wellness into the core of enterprise performance.

To bring this vision to life, BA is launching the Global Founding Pilot Program, a defining go-to-market initiative that will:

  • Engage leading companies to assess a minimum of 50 employees, followed by tailored, science-based workforce interventions powered by BA’s portfolio solutions.

  • Conduct a global research initiative to validate and refine the BHM thesis with multiple enterprise collaborators.

The Goal: To gather robust data and insights by October 2025, culminating in a series of white papers and impact findings to be unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2026 — where select founding pilot companies may join BA on stage to share results.

This effort will:

  • Tie business outcomes directly to brain health investments

  • Generate enterprise case studies and data-driven validation

  • Support go-to-market momentum across the BA portfolio

  • Establish BHM as the global standard for measuring and advancing brain capital

The BHM Founding Pilot Program Lead will drive a consistent, strategic experience across all pilot participants and tentpole events — ensuring this becomes a catalytic moment not just for Blue Ash, but for the future of workplace wellbeing.

For organizations ready to lead the charge, this is a rare opportunity to shape the brain economy — and be recognized globally for doing so.

Meet the Team

  • Steve Carnevale

    FOUNDING PARTNER

  • Eric Arnson

    MANAGING PARTNER

  • Bethany Jana

    VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT

  • Shannon Morin

    CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR

Blue Ash Flourishing Partners

SHAPE is the world’s first purpose-built product to enhance employee flourishing. SHAPE precisely measures and reports the degree of struggling, striving, and flourishing among employees across 12 critical performance areas. Shape-guided employees flourish up to 10x faster to happiness and high-performance through a flourishing mindset. This is measured and reported individually, for a team, and corporate-wide.

The WFO aims to elevate 1 billion lives by transforming 30% of the global workforce into beacons of well-being and peak performance by 2035. To do this, the WFO empowers organizations to use workplace flourishing as a measure and driver of success. Our Flourishing Framework is the world's first evidence-based measurement function via a digital platform to assess your organizational health. It delivers a roadmap for actionable, tailored, evidence-based practices, principles, and processes, informed by your own data, to ensure flourishing is an asset to your culture and your balance sheet. 

Brain Capital is a framework of how the brain works and how it affects our behavior, cognition, emotions, and well-being across society. Brain science can help us understand the modern economy, which is shaped by human decisions, interactions, and innovations. We empower global transition to an economy that relies on human cognitive resilience to flourish. Brain capital is an economic asset that prioritizes, integrates, and optimizes brain health and brain skills to accomplish socio-economic objectives. In other words, our collective brain power is a prosperity and national security asset.

SPARC Foundation is a pioneering organization dedicated to advancing workforce development through data-driven insights, research integration, and strategic partnerships. Collaborating with Penn State and the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative, SPARC equips students with essential skills, strengthens the higher education talent pipeline, and provides industry leaders with actionable intelligence on emerging workforce trends. By serving as a trusted data hub, SPARC enables comparative workforce analysis across academia, industry, and government, shaping policies and strategies that drive innovation and economic growth.

The Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative is a research center and information hub at Penn State dedicated to advancing the use of social science evidence in decision-making. EIC fosters collaboration among practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to optimize social investments and improve societal well-being through data-driven insights and research translation