Gerald Sindell

CEO of Aligned Trust and the inventor behind its patented Universal Authentication System.

Gerald Sindell is a systems architect and implementation expert whose work has focused on why large-scale organizational and technology initiatives succeed — and why they fail, even with sufficient funding and executive support.

A leading thinker in Systems Dynamics, as Partner at the Identity Dynamics Institute, he led the team that developed the first universal systems dynamics model of major organizational structures. This achievement was praised by James Champy (Boston Consulting Group), who acknowledged it as a breakthrough he had long envisioned but had been unable to create.

For Accenture, Sindell developed Simplementation — a 35,000 variable systems dynamics model that interactively trains and simulates implementation challenges and outcomes. The system was the first ever integration of a large systems dynamics model with a real-time 3D simulated environment.

Recognizing its significance, the National Defence University invited Sindell to present his Simplementation in an extraordinary all-hands  lecture to senior leaders across the U.S. government, including representatives from the C.I.A., I.R.S., F.B.I.. S.S.A., and every branch of the Armed Forces.

Sindell also played a central role in the development of the Enterprise Operating System, now used by tens of thousands of small and medium-sized organizations worldwide, and transformed  the Balanced Scorecard Institute’s work-in-progress into the fully integrated enterprise management system enshrined in the book The Institute Way, now used by governments and major corporations globally.

In 2023, Sindell presented A Universal Model of Energy Flows in Large Scale Organizations to the 2023 International System Dynamics Conference

He is the author of several influential books, including How Architecture Tells (with Robert Steinberg, Oro Editions, 2022, foreword by the Hon. Penny Pritzker), and his widely- employed guide to the development and diffussion of innovation The Genius Machine (New World, 2008), described by Harvard Business School’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter as “a gift to the world.”

At Aligned Trust, Sindell applies this lifetime of experience to the design and stewardship of a universal, external trust layer — with particular emphasis on deployability, institutional adoption, regulatory coherence, and long-term system integrity.

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