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Joseph Phelan

1. Full Name:

Joseph Phelan

2. Country / City of Residence:

United States / Greater Chicago Area, Illinois

3. Specialization (Business / Professional Activity):

  • Strategic Management and Marketing
  • Regulatory Systems and Political Economy
  • Institutional and Systems Analysis
  • Business Strategy
  • Investigative Strategy
  • Systems Mapping
  • Regulatory Exposure Analysis
  • Adversarial Analysis
  • Accountability
  • Finance, Business Operations, and Growth Strategy

Co-Founder of the independent media and research platform F’nAround.

4. Professional Summary (2–3 sentences):

I am a strategist, researcher, and entrepreneur with extensive experience in strategic management, finance, operations, marketing, and regulated industries. As Co-Founder of F’nAround, I integrate investigative research, public records, documentary evidence, and systems analysis to examine regulatory structures, institutional risk, incentives, and accountability. My current research focuses on regulatory systems, political economy, and systems-level institutional analysis.

5. Public / Community Activity:

Co-Founder of F’nAround, an independent international media and research platform combining investigative analysis, public-record research, FOIA disclosures, documented testimony, and systems-level examination of regulated industries. The work examines regulatory accountability, institutional risk, incentive structures, and systemic behavior, including extensive analysis of the Illinois cannabis regulatory environment. F’nAround’s media, investigative, research, and creative work has reached audiences in more than 100 countries.

6. Statement of Purpose: Why do you wish to join the International Association of Scientists “Intellectual Leadership”?

I wish to join the International Association of Scientists “Intellectual Leadership” to expand international academic and professional collaboration in systems analysis, strategic management, regulatory systems, and political economy. Membership will provide opportunities to exchange knowledge with researchers and practitioners from different countries, advance interdisciplinary research, and contribute applied methodologies for understanding institutions, governance, systemic risk, and accountability.

7. Education:

  • Florida Institute of Technology, USA — Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Strategic Management & Marketing.
  • Further academic research: PhD Researcher, Regulatory Systems & Political Economy.

8. Academic Degree (if applicable):

  • Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) — Strategic Management & Marketing.
  • PhD Researcher — Regulatory Systems & Political Economy.

9. Scientific Publications, Books, and Media Coverage:

Author and contributor to investigative, analytical, research, and media work produced through F’nAround, addressing regulatory systems, institutional risk, political economy, corporate and regulatory accountability. The research incorporates public records, FOIA disclosures, documented case studies, sworn testimony, and adversarial documentation.

10. Copyrights (Author Programs, Methodologies, Courses):

Gravitas Satanae (Structural Gravity Theory) — an original strategic theory and methodological framework that models power, silence, compliance, and accountability as cumulative forces operating within institutional systems.

Author-developed methodological areas also include:

  • Systems Mapping
  • Regulatory Exposure Analysis
  • Adversarial Analysis
  • Accountability Analysis

11. Inventions / Patents:

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