Trust Acceleration Index: Turning trust from a relationship asset into an operational advantage.

If trust can be measured, can it also be accelerated?
Organizations invest heavily in visibility, analytics, and collaboration tools, yet decision-making often remains slow. The missing factor is trust.

Trust Acceleration Index™ (TAI™) provides a practical framework for measuring trust velocity, identifying what accelerates or erodes trust, and understanding its impact on decision speed, resilience, and performance. Instead of asking, “Do we trust?”, leaders should ask, “Is trust improving or declining?”
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Agenda
1. Why Trust Must Be Dynamic
2. Introducing the Trust Acceleration Index™
3. What Accelerates—or Erodes—Trust
4. Trust Velocity and Decision Speed
5. Executive Applications & Key Takeaways
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Deliverables
Participants will receive:
• A framework for understanding trust as an operational capability.
• A model for measuring trust velocity and direction.
• Practical 30/60/90-day trust acceleration approaches.
• Tools for identifying trust accelerators and trust destroyers.
• Insights for improving collaboration, resilience, and decision speed.
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Presenters
► Greg Schlegel, CPIM, CSP, Jonah
CEO & Founder, The Supply Chain Risk Management Consortium
► Jim de Vries, LSS MBB, CSCP CSO, The SCRM Consortium | Founder, Managing Partner, Enhance International Group
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Why This Matters
• A leadership-level discussion on trust, decision velocity, and performance.
• Practical approaches for accelerating trust across complex supply chain ecosystems.

Trust is an operational asset. Organizations that accelerate trust gain faster decisions, earlier warning signals, and stronger resilience.