Marcial Losada (1939–2020) was a Chilean psychologist, consultant, and former director of the Center for Advanced Research (CFAR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
][citation needed] After finishing his doctoral work, Losada served as a Center for Advanced Research (CFAR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[when?
[citation needed] In pursuing these goals, he founded and served as executive director of Losada Line Consulting, which had presented past workshops and seminars at companies including Apple, Boeing, EDS, GM, and Merck, and foundations including the Kellogg and Mellon Foundations, with high performance team-building contracts at BCI, Banchile, BHP-Billiton, Codelco, and Telefónica.
[citation needed] Beginning in 2008, measured criticism began for the 2005 and earlier papers, including from Luoma, Hämäläinen, and Saarinen of the Systems Analysis Laboratory at Aalto University,[3] and Navas at CNRS,[4] reports that did not draw widespread attention.
[citation needed] The criticism of the work for flawed methodology and invalid application of differential equations was renewed and much amplified by the report by psychologists Nicholas J.L.