A Georgia 501(c)(3) Nonprofit  ·  Est. Augusta, GA

Every life needs a foundation before it needs a plan.

The MIND Foundation builds the ownership, initiative, follow-through, and self-command that let a person actually move forward — in the classroom, the workplace, recovery, and every walk of life in between. We do it through research, behavioral science, publishing, and direct work with the young people who need it most.

Psychological readiness isn’t a workplace skill. It’s the thing underneath every skill — whether a person believes they have any agency at all. We built The MIND Foundation because that belief can be taught, measured, and rebuilt, at any age, starting from wherever someone actually is.

Drawing on nearly four decades of hands-on work in talent development and behavioral psychology, we translate that experience into frameworks, technology, publications, and programs — anchored by direct work with abused, underprivileged, and at-risk youth. Read our story →

Five pillars, one foundation

Each program stands on its own. Together, they carry the full weight of the mission — from the science, to the writing, to the kids who need it most.

KAIROS

Behavioral Intelligence Platform

A first-of-its-kind assessment platform built on the Six Unmeasurables — the traits that resumes and test scores can’t see, but that determine whether someone actually succeeds.

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Mind@Work Journal

Monthly Publication

Our flagship publication on the behavioral, attitudinal, and psychological forces reshaping the American workplace — edited in Augusta, read everywhere the conversation about work is changing.

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Psychological Readiness Framework

Youth Programs, Ages 14–24

A dedicated track for at-risk and underserved youth — including young people navigating abuse and Adverse Childhood Experiences — moving from stabilization to genuine employability.

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Frameworks & Publishing

Books & White Papers

The intellectual core of the Foundation’s work — books including Soul of Flint and Now Hiring: Adults, and a growing white paper library.

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Tee It Up For Kids

Annual Golf Classic

Our flagship fundraising event, built specifically for abused, underprivileged, and at-risk children — and the clearest expression of everything else we do.

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This is not a general youth initiative.

Tee It Up For Kids exists specifically to serve abused, underprivileged, and at-risk children. Every dollar raised supports Child Enrichment, Inc. and the Children’s Advocacy Center of Sullivan County, TN.

Date
September 23, 2026
Location
Bartram Trail Golf Club, Evans, GA
Presented by
WRDW
Benefiting
Child Enrichment & CAC of Sullivan County, TN
Tee It Up For Kids Golf Classic, September 23, 2026, Bartram Trail Golf Club, benefiting Child Enrichment

Built on nearly forty years in the field

Every framework The MIND Foundation publishes — the Six Unmeasurables, Psychological Maturity, Neuroergology, the Effort Mindset — started as observation, not theory, long before there was a platform or a publication to formalize it.

That same lens now runs in both directions: upstream, into KAIROS and the organizations that use it to see what resumes can’t; and downstream, into the young people our Psychological Readiness Framework was built to reach before the gap becomes permanent. More about our founding →

39Years in talent & behavioral development
6Unmeasurables at the core of every framework
14–24Ages served by the Readiness Framework

Stand with the foundation

However you engage, it goes toward the same work: kids and adults building the readiness to move forward on their own terms.

Sponsor the Classic

Put your business behind the tournament that funds our direct work with at-risk youth.

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Subscribe to Mind@Work

Get the monthly journal on the psychological forces reshaping how America works.

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Bring KAIROS to your team

See the Six Unmeasurables platform built for hiring, coaching, and development.

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Give directly

Reach out to discuss a gift in support of the Psychological Readiness Framework.

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