About Us

WTRI enables dynamic businesses to achieve concrete targeted outcomes with dramatic financial results in an accelerated timeframe. By fusing cutting edge cognitive science research and business expertise, we leverage your company’s core expertise to create an agile workforce that gives you a unique edge over the competition.

Recent News


Summer 2012- WTRI and GPR Dehler of Australia and the UK form a joint venture for its virtual world Mining applications. For details on Simmersal Solutions’ inaugural product, click on this link.
April 2012 - E.S. Chamberlain wins his fourth IT Executive of the Year Award for his innovative work on business simulations and the integration of business technology into business simulations.
March 2012 - Dr. Lia DiBello is a guest on Ashford Talk Radio, talking about the future of eLearning with virtual worlds.
February 2012 - Dr. Lia DiBello is a speaker at the Annual Society of Consulting Psychology’s Mid-Winter conference February 9 2012 discussing the results for client using WTRI’s Profiler™ for assessing senior executive’s cognitive agility and business acumen.
January 2012 - The famous Aimee Weber from Aimee Weber Studios visits our “Lynchpin Global” world and endorses the project for the second phase of funding.
December 2011 - WTRI wins an NSF research award for its Lynchpin Global virtual world educational environment.   This 3-D immersive virtual world will be developed over a period of two years with assistance from NSF, partner universities and companies.
Fall 2011 - WTRI helps large copper mining company with a game changing strategy. We developed a customized exercise on efficient and productive block cave mining.
Edmund Chamberlain was a member of the US Marine Corps Small Unit Decision Making January 2011 Workshop.  The Final Report has been released by the US Marine Corps Training and Education Command.
A case study involving WTRI's FutureView™ Profiler will be featured as Chapter 17 of the soon to be released book, Informed by knowledge: Expert Performance in Complex Situations.
Lia DiBello Ph.D. was elected to the Knowledge Elicitor's Guild as a Master Level member.
WTRI's FutureView Profiler was described in Senior Executive Assessment, A key to responsible corporate governance by Dr. Dean Stamoulis, who is the leader of Russell Reynold's Global Executive Assessment Practice.
Dr. Lia DiBello has been awarded the 2009 Women Who Mean Business Award  (WWMB) in San Diego.  By the San Diego Business Journal


WTRI chosen as a finalist in the American Electronics Association (AeA) San Diego Council's 15th annual High Tech Awards.
WTRI OpSims™ helped win the X-Prize

Featured Project

Copper Mining

Copper Mining