The origin of a system
My father, Michael J. Witkowski, Ed.D., spent much of his career studying how psychology shapes leadership—first inside Ford Motor Company’s global security division, and later as a professor of criminal justice, sociology, and organizational leadership at the University of Detroit Mercy.
His doctoral research revealed a structural flaw hidden in plain sight:
“When systems are built for only one kind of mind, everyone else is set up to fail.”
He found that the majority of corporate and security leaders shared the same narrow psychological profile: rigid, authoritative, emotionally avoidant. That uniformity created systems that rewarded compliance, punished nuance, and excluded emotional intelligence altogether.
It explained why some people rose effortlessly while others—no less capable—were chronically overlooked.
He studied the problem.
I've built the structure to solve it.
The cost of uniform thinking
My father found that typological dominance created systems that rewarded compliance, punished nuance, and excluded emotional intelligence altogether.
Sound like your profession too?
After completing his doctorate, he left the corporate ladder to pursue his dream job: college teaching. For over twenty years he taught criminal justice, leadership, sociology, and security—not to enforce order, but to help the next generation improve the very structures he had once worked inside.
My father taught that systems can only thrive if they are designed to honor more than one kind of person. More than one way of learning. More than one kind of voice.
He didn’t have a chance to build a solution—
That’s where I come in.
Where he found dysfunction, I’m architecting correction.
He exposed the psychological rigidity of power structures.
I'm now helping clients design income systems to work around those power dynamics.
Systems that work for intuitive, creative, emotionally attuned entrepreneurs and leaders—the very people power structures too often exclude.
Where he studied who leadership excluded, I now help build income models that include those same minds by design, not exception.
Where he theorized type, I'm monetizing alignment
He believed personality and learning style mattered.
I turned that belief into diagnostic tools and frameworks that don’t just analyze people.
They help people earn congruently from who they are.
Where he taught leadership, I'm leading structural freedom
He stood in the classroom.
I stand in the fire with clients whose income, safety, and self-worth have been undermined by systems just like the ones he studied.
He believed in education.
I do too.
But I also believe in transformation and in building new and improved systems from the inside out.
The sentence he started, I am finishing
His research didn’t live in a vacuum. My father’s work was diagnosing the same problem many prominent leaders were all circling around: rigid systems devoid of emotional or spiritual intelligence that mistake uniformity for strength.
My father asked:
“What happens when leadership only looks one way?”
I answered:
“What if income, voice, and power could be built to reflect who we actually are without contortion, without burnout, and without erasure?”
He held the question.
I built the response.
He taught students how to think about systems.
I'm now helping students, entrepreneurs, creators, and industry-shifting professionals realize how they can build new ones.
I am not just my father’s son.
I am his structural continuation.
Because some questions take two generations to answer.
The Voice that Carried it Forward
Part of what drove me to study vocal performance—and ultimately earn a Doctor of Musical Arts—was an intuitive knowing:
I was inside a system designed to suppress the talent of people like me.
I didn’t just want to survive it.
I wanted to beat it.
Vocal music may have been a contrasting field to my father’s—and with very contrasting typologies.
But the dynamic was the same:
Academic and artistic systems that rewarded compliance, flattened nuance, and erased the very brilliance they claimed to cultivate.
My doctoral research explored the lesser-known German Romantic composer Carl Loewe. My dissertation covered his piece Gregor auf dem Stein—a dramatic ballad cycle rooted in themes of exile, transformation, and spiritual return.
At the time, I thought I was just writing about the music.
In truth, I was studying how structure holds emotion and how the voice can be used to carry what systems try to erase.
That same tension now lives in my work with entrepreneurs: building frameworks that don’t suppress power, but hold it.
My father studied the system.
I studied the song.
This business carries both.
His research gave language to the problem.
My music gave voice to it.
Together, they became the behavioral and structural foundation of a system that could finally measure what he could only describe.
What he couldn’t finish, I’m now scaling
His work continues to live on in mine—refined, embodied, and applied.
Where he warned, I rewrite.
Where he diagnosed, I design.
Where he stopped at the podium, I stepped into the marketplace.
This business doesn’t just reflect my voice.
It carries forward his legacy.
It took me a while to realize that I wasn’t just building a business.
I was carrying forward my father’s unfinished work.
I was the next chapter.
And if you’ve ever felt like the system wasn’t built for you—
It’s because it wasn’t.
You're not too sensitive.
You're not too complicated.
You're not too ambitious or too much.
You're just trying to build a life inside a structure that doesn’t know how to hold you.
This work is for people like us.
People who feel deeply, think rigorously, and want to earn without diluting who they are.
That’s who I built this for.
That’s who I built it with.
And if you know someone this was written for—
someone whose brilliance has always lived outside the lines—
don’t keep it to yourself.
This is the infrastructure he never got to see—
but absolutely would have recognized.
From father to son.
From question to structure.
From warning to architecture.
From survival to sovereignty.
The Lucrativity System™ is the continuation of his unfinished work—the structure that finally holds what his research first revealed.
Now it’s your move.
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