Essi Systems Team

Esther M. Orioli, M. S. – President and CEO

Consultant, author, and founder of two successful international research and consulting firms. Esther M. Orioli is a recognized authority in leadership development, emotional intelligence, resiliency and stress with more than 20 years of pioneering work in systems design, organizational mapping, and behavior change technology. Esther is the creator of the StressMap^® , the EQ Map® and the Resiliency Map^TM.

The Essi Team:

 Esther Orioli

Karen Trocki



Ellen Stevenson

Sjaak Overbeeke

Julia Shumelda

Karla Carmony

Brenda Aguilar

In 1983, Orioli founded Essi Systems Inc., specializing in transforming workplace stress into optimal performance. Orioli promoted the revolutionary idea of positive stress performance and developed the StressMap®, the stress assessment instrument honored with the National Health Information Award. The StressMap® has sold more than 500,000 copies.

Orioli's newest company, Q-Metrics LLC, was founded with Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations. Orioli created the EQ Map® featured in Dr. Cooper's book, which has become the premier assessment instrument for emotional intelligence in business. The EQ Map® employs the mapping technology created by Orioli at Essi Systems.

Through Q-Metrics, a firm dedicated to managing and developing human intelligences at work, Orioli and her research team continue to explore this exciting field. Most recently, Orioli has been working with Dr. Michael Ray of Stanford University to develop the first CQ Map^TM to measure creativity in business.