It seems weird this theory’s backbone was just some random person who contacted someone and said something like “hey I have math that says you’re right” and it just takes off from there. Until some other rando checks it out of curiosity…
"A Chilean business-consultant named Marcial Losada, 'who had begun to dabble in what had become his passion: mathematical modeling of group behavior,' sent her an out-of-the-blue email."
The article seems to ignore it, but Losada had a PhD in social and organizational psychology from the U of Michigan [1].