There are cases that break generalists. The person in front of you has been seriously harmed, something is clearly wrong, and the tools available aren't precise enough to name it, document it, or defend it when challenged. Most practitioners in this field have been in that room.
The research on toxic leadership, abusive supervision, and organizational dysfunction has existed for decades. What hasn't existed is a unified, mechanism-based system practitioners can actually deploy in those cases, across the full spectrum of harm, from direct aggression to institutional complicity. That gap is where targets stay unprotected and perpetrators stay unaccountable.
SOHI does the research, develops the diagnostic tools, and credentials the practitioners who carry that work into organizations. The Organizational Harm Taxonomy (OHT™) classifies sixteen behavioral mechanisms of harm across five clusters, documenting how each one operates, what distinguishes it from adjacent behaviors, and how it manifests when delivered through AI systems.
The work is both academic and applied by design. Every definition in the taxonomy meets standards of scholarly precision. Every element of the COHA certification is immediately deployable in active field settings. Those two requirements are not in tension. They are the point.
