TARUN AGARWALA
Founder, Empanetics Research Labs
Interpersonal Trust Growth Framework™ Creator
MS. Clinical PsychologyProfessor - Game Theory at SVKM's NMIMS
Professor - Future of Work at CMRU-IPLFormer CEO - Zapilio
Former Director - Tata Communications
I’ve spent my life studying how people think, feel, and cooperate. As the creator of the Interpersonal Trust Growth Framework™, my work focuses on understanding how trust grows—through competence, clarity, consistency, and genuine concern—and how leaders can apply this science to build more resilient relationships.My path has crossed entrepreneurship, corporate leadership, and academia, but my real passion is helping people understand each other better. I enjoy taking complex ideas from neuroscience and game theory and turning them into simple, usable practices that make everyday interactions easier.I don’t claim to have all the answers—I still see myself as an explorer more than an expert. But I’m committed to helping people build trust on purpose—interact with more clarity, kindness, and rational-empathy… and maybe have some fun while doing it.
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Stop trying to be objective; you can achieve magic.
Rory Sutherland
It's all about giving meaning to physical signals.
Lisa F. Barrett
What is Dharma? Does it have a static definition?
Sanjeev Sanyal
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Journey & Mission
My journey with human behavior began much earlier than my degrees or research. I was sent to a boarding school at the age of 4½. Those first six years shaped my neuroendocrine world more than any textbook ever could. They taught me through lived experience what depression feels like, how loneliness rewires attention, where self-esteem comes from, and why trust is both fragile and transformative.Instead of breaking me, those years made me curious.
Curious about why humans behave the way they do…
Curious about what makes connection feel safe…
Curious about how empathy actually works in the body and the brain.That curiosity eventually led me across disciplines—psychology, sociology, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology, philosophy, mathematics, and business—searching for one integrated understanding of the human mind in relationship.Today, my mission is to turn all that learning into something useful and practical: helping people build a Trust Network—manage emotions with clarity, and create relationships that are resilient in a fast-changing world.This work is not theoretical for me. It’s personal, lived, tested—first in childhood, then in leadership, and now in entrepreneurship.
Silent Killers of Performance & Peace
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Transform relationships through science-backed frameworks combining game theory, social neuroscience, and cross-cultural psychology
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Mutual Trust Growth
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Interpersonal Trust Growth Framework™ is an intellectual property of Empanetics.