Beyond Traditional Testing,
Measure What Really Matters
Life simulation–based assessment that tracks 18 critical
competencies through
authentic
decision-making, not surveys.
RealLives ChangeMaker Index Features
Students Simulate
Decisions Tracked
Insights Delivered
AI Guidance
Actionable Reports
Personal Growth
Globally Contextualized
18 ChangeMaker Competencies
Discover how the ChangeMaker Index turns your
life
choices
into insights, tracking growth,
guiding decisions, and unlocking your potential as a global ChangeMaker.
Experience RealLives ChangeMaker Index
Our Impact
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Students explored global life scenarios in the RealLives ChangeMaking Workshop, building empathy, ethical leadership, and sustainable problem-solving skills.
IIT Bombay, India
Through simulation-based experiences, students connected technology, society, and values, learning how empathy-driven choices can drive social impact.
Navamindradhiraj University, Thailand
Students participated in an immersive ChangeMaker program, gaining insights into social responsibility, ethical decision-making, and the impact of choices on communities.
Benefits for Everyone
Empower Yourself to Grow Beyond Academics
RealLives helps you go beyond achievements and test scores by making social, emotional, and ethical growth visible and measurable. Through immersive life simulations, you experience real-world situations that build empathy, resilience, and responsible decision-making, all key to thriving in life and work.
Gain Deep Insights into Your Growth
The ChangeMaker Index transforms every in-game choice into meaningful insights on your mindset and behavior. It helps you understand how you approach challenges, collaborate with others, and lead with purpose, supporting self-awareness and continuous personal development.
Seamless Integration with Your Goals
RealLives aligns effortlessly with personal growth journeys, professional development paths, and lifelong learning goals. You can track your progress across 18 ChangeMaker competencies, turning qualities like compassion, integrity, and adaptability into measurable growth milestones.
Build a Life of Reflection and Purpose
By revealing the impact of your decisions, RealLives encourages you to think deeply, act responsibly, and grow consciously. It nurtures a global community of ChangeMakers, empathetic, confident individuals ready to lead with purpose and create positive change in the world.
We’re building something powerful for educators and institutions — a space to measure, nurture, and celebrate every student’s growth beyond academics. Stay tuned as we unveil how RealLives empowers schools and universities to shape tomorrow’s changemakers.
We’re creating a space for employers who value purpose-driven talent. Soon, you’ll see how RealLives helps organizations identify and nurture changemakers who bring empathy, innovation, and impact to work.
We’re creating a space for parents to support their children’s growth beyond academics. Coming soon, resources and insights to help you understand your child, guide their decisions, and celebrate their journey as a changemaker.
What is RCMI?
The RealLives ChangeMaker Index (RCMI) is a revolutionary competency-based assessment tool that measures an individual's potential to create positive impact in their personal and professional lives.
Unlike traditional assessments that focus solely on academic knowledge or technical skills, RCMI provides a holistic evaluation of critical competencies that are essential for success in the 21st century.
Key Features
Powered by RealLives Simulation : An award-winning, immersive life simulation that allows individuals to experience decision-making in realistic scenario
AI-Powered Score Generation : Advanced algorithms analyze performance across all competencies to generate accurate, personalized insights.
Global Recognition : Developed in partnership with leading institutions including Korea University
The Science behind RCMI
The RCMI Index is built on a robust foundation of psychometric research, educational theory, and data-driven insights. The assessment framework was developed through collaboration between the RealLives Foundation and Korea University, combining expertise in:
Experiential Learning Theory: Learning through realistic simulation and decision-making
Competency-Based Education: Focus on skills and abilities rather than just knowledge
Social Impact Research: Understanding the competencies that drive meaningful change
Positive Psychology: Emphasis on strengths-based development
The RealLives simulation provides a unique assessment environment where individuals make decisions that affect a simulated life, revealing their natural competencies in areas such as problem-solving, empathy, ethical reasoning, and global awareness.
How the RealLives ChangeMaker Index Works?
Step 1: Making a Real-Life Decision
Every player faces life-like situations and must choose what to do.These choices depend on your character’s unique life — their family background, income level, job, and more. Just like in real life, every decision shapes who you become.
Step 2: Measuring Competencies
Each choice reflects different mindsets and skills.When you decide, our system automatically updates your character’s competencies based on your choice.
Step 3: Building the ChangeMaker Index
Let’s say you chose A — “Make the journey and bring back the water.” Our proprietary algorithm analyzes the intent and impact of that choice and updates your ChangeMaker Index, showing how your empathy, resilience, and decision-making evolve over time.
Step 4 — View Your ChangeMaker Graph
Watch your personal ChangeMaker journey come alive!The ChangeMaker Graph visualizes your progress across 18 ChangeMaker Competencies
Each new decision updates your graph, showing where you’re growing, and where you can grow next.
Step 5 — Discover Your ChangeMaker Clusters
Your overall ChangeMaker Score is built from four powerful clusters, each combining multiple competencies you develop through your decisions:
1 Internal / Personal Qualities – How you grow as an individual:Self-Awareness, Resilience, Adaptability, Persistence, Emotional Intelligence
2 Interpersonal Competencies – How you grow as an individual:Self-Awareness, Resilience, Adaptability, Persistence, Emotional Intelligence
3 Strategic Thinking – How you plan, solve problems, and innovate: Visionary Thinking, Creativity & Innovation, Problem-Solving Skills, Initiative, Risk-Taking, Critical Thinking
4 Contextual Awareness – How you understand the wider world and act responsibly: Global Awareness, Ethical Responsibility
Together, these clusters show how your choices build personal growth, social impact, strategic capability, and responsible citizenship — giving a holistic view of your ChangeMaker potential.
The ChangeMaker Journey
The Five Stages of ChangeMaker Development
The RCMI Index places individuals on a developmental journey with five distinct stages, each representing a level of changemaking capacity:
Stage 1: Seed
"Just beginning to explore your potential"
At the Seed stage, individuals are at the very beginning of their changemaking journey. They are discovering their interests, starting to understand their strengths, and beginning to develop foundational competencies.
Stage 2: Sprout
"Starting to develop foundational skills"
At the Sprout stage, individuals are actively developing their competencies and beginning to see growth in specific areas. They are building confidence and starting to take initiative.
Stage 3: Sapling
"Growing stronger with a mix of strengths and growth areas"
At the Sapling stage, individuals have developed a solid foundation of competencies with clear strengths emerging. They are actively working on areas for improvement while leveraging their strengths.
Stage 4: Plant
"Well on your way, with a solid and balanced profile"
At the Plant stage, individuals are flourishing, branching out, and making their presence felt. Their work is creating visible change, and their connections are helping their impact spread further. This is the time to protect what they've built.
Stage 5: Fruit
"Thriving as a ChangeMaker, creating meaningful impact"
At the Fruit stage, individuals are at the pinnacle of their changemaking capacity. They are creating significant, sustained impact and inspiring others to do the same.
Make decisions, grow skills, and see your impact come to life.
Impact
Our Global Impact Story
RealLives has delivered six workshops across six countries, partnering with leading universities to bring global, experiential learning into classrooms. Students engage in real-world scenarios, make life-shaping decisions, explore global disparities, and build empathy for diverse human experiences. By integrating RealLives, institutions enrich courses in sociology, economics, and international relations while strengthening students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Students report deeper understanding of global issues and a stronger connection to the world beyond their own borders.
Impact home
ETH Zurich Workshop
27/06/2018
ETH University Zurich, Switzerland
Department - Institute of Molecular Systems Biology
In collaboration with :
Prof. Dr. Ernst Hafen
Participants :
120
Used tool :
Empathy
Skills Developed
Navamindradhiraj University Workshop
20/09/2025
Navamindradhiraj University , Bangkok
Department - General Education
In collaboration with :
Prof.Krittanan (Punch)
Participants :
150
Used tool :
Empathy
Skills Developed
KyungHee University SDG Workshop
29/09/2025
Kyunghee University, Korea
Department - Social Sciences
In collaboration with :
Prof. Dr. Utak Chang
Participants :
30
Used tool :
Empathy
Skills Developed
IIT Bombay Exploring SDG 1 through Empathy Workshop
07/11/2024
IIT Bombay, India
Department - IDC School of Design
In collaboration with :
India HCI 2024
Participants :
30
Used tool :
Empathy Canvas
Skills Developed
SDG’s Alligned with this workshop
Objective
To develop cross-cultural empathy and global awareness among students from high-income countries by enabling them to experience life circumstances in developing nations through RealLives simulation. The program aimed to bridge the perspective gap between students from privileged backgrounds and global development challenges while fostering meaningful intercultural dialogue and understanding of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals through experiential learning and structured peer-to-peer exchanges.
Program Overview
RealLives Foundation partnered with ETH Zurich to conduct an innovative cross-cultural empathy program that provided students with deep insights into the United Nations' seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By engaging with the text-based RealLives simulation, Swiss students learned to empathize with people from other parts of the world and gained new perspectives on global development challenges. The program facilitated hands-on experience in discussing SDGs and their real-world implications through direct collaboration with students from developing countries, creating authentic intercultural learning experiences.
Implementation & Methodology
The program addressed a key challenge: students from high-income countries like Switzerland often show difficulties relating to global challenges addressed in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The RealLives simulation allowed students to experience life when born at random locations on earth, with each simulated life lasting between 30 to 45 minutes. During the purely text-based gameplay, students encountered real-world data from public databases about their assigned countries, learning about specific SDG challenges. They experienced life unfolding around them until age eight, when they could begin making independent decisions, concluding each simulation by writing reflective obituaries about their lived experiences and life choices.
Cross-Cultural Exchange & Impact
The program featured a unique partnership with FLAME University in Pune, India, established through Parag Mankeekar's connection. Twenty ETH students experienced life by being born in Pune, India, while twenty Indian students lived simulated lives in Zurich, Switzerland. After completing three lives in their respective assigned cities, the program arranged one-on-one Skype conferences between Swiss and Indian students to share experiences and insights. The success of this perspective transformation was rigorously assessed through recorded interviews with Swiss students, demonstrating measurable changes in their understanding of global development challenges and cross-cultural empathy development.
Skills Developed
SDG’s Alligned with this workshop
Objective
To develop empathetic global citizens through experiential learning by enabling students at Navamindradhiraj University to experience diverse life circumstances through RealLives simulation, process their emotional responses through structured reflection, and channel their newfound empathy into actionable social business solutions. The comprehensive ChangeMaker Program aimed to bridge the gap between awareness and action while fostering critical thinking about sustainable development goals and global challenges.
Program Overview
RealLives Foundation successfully conducted a comprehensive ChangeMaker Program at Navamindradhiraj University in Bangkok, focusing on sustainable development goals and empathy-driven changemaking. The workshop engaged university students in an immersive educational journey that combined life simulation experiences with structured reflection and entrepreneurial thinking. Participants navigated through the complete RealLives ecosystem, experiencing lives across different socioeconomic backgrounds globally while developing measurable empathy and changemaking competencies through our proprietary assessment tools.
Implementation & Methodology
The program utilized our integrated four-step methodology: students first experienced diverse global lives through RealLives simulation, then processed their emotional responses using the Empathy Canvas framework, followed by generating personalized ChangeMaker Index reports analyzing their development across 18 competencies. The workshop concluded with students creating viable social business solutions using our Social Business Canvas, directly addressing challenges they encountered during their simulated life experiences. This experiential learning approach enabled participants to move beyond theoretical understanding of global issues to developing practical, empathy-driven solutions.
Outcomes & Impact
The workshop demonstrated significant measurable outcomes in student engagement and empathy development. Participants showed enhanced understanding of global disparities, improved critical thinking about sustainable development challenges, and increased motivation to pursue social impact initiatives. Students created innovative social business proposals targeting issues ranging from educational inequality to sustainable resource management, reflecting their deepened awareness of interconnected global challenges. The success at Navamindradhiraj University reinforces RealLives' effectiveness in transforming academic learning into actionable changemaking capabilities across diverse cultural and educational contexts.
Skills Developed
Student Testimonial
I'm Panja "Thon Mai" Sulta Mujdatin. Through this experience, I learned that while none of us choose the circumstances we're born into, rich or poor, we can always choose empathy, kindness, and inclusion. Life has its ups and downs, so being flexible and ready for change is essential.
Inspired by a disabled family member, I developed a social impact project to raise awareness for people with disabilities. I plan to share interview videos on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube so their voices and perspectives are heard. I'll also recycle unused materials and collaborate with disabled creators to make handmade products, which I'll sell in public spaces and donate all profits to a foundation.
My core principles include creating quality content that informs and inspires, customizing approaches to respect each person's comfort and privacy, maintaining consistency to drive real long term change, and fostering collaboration to ensure disabled people are included and empowered.
My message to young people: everyone is human, treat all people equally.
SDG’s Alligned with this workshop
Objective
To foster global citizenship and empathy development among Korean university students through experiential learning and cross-cultural understanding. The workshop aimed to expand students' perspectives on global challenges and sustainable development while developing their capacity for empathetic decision-making and changemaking skills through immersive life simulation experiences and structured reflection processes.
Program Overview
RealLives Foundation conducted a comprehensive ChangeMaker workshop at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea, organized by Prof. Dr. Utak Chang, former Director of UNESCO APCEIU (Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding), with assistance from Prof. Ms. Chanmi Kim. The program engaged 30 university students in an immersive educational experience designed to develop global awareness and empathy through the RealLives simulation platform. This collaboration with UNESCO's educational leadership demonstrated RealLives' alignment with international education standards and its effectiveness in promoting intercultural understanding and global citizenship development.
Implementation & Methodology
The workshop utilized RealLives' integrated educational approach, enabling students to experience diverse life circumstances across different countries and socioeconomic backgrounds through text-based simulation. Participants navigated multiple lives lasting 30-45 minutes each, encountering real-world data and making critical life decisions that reflected authentic global challenges. The program incorporated structured reflection through the Empathy Canvas framework, allowing students to process their emotional responses and develop deeper understanding of global disparities. Students also generated personalized ChangeMaker Index reports, providing measurable insights into their development across key competencies including empathy, global awareness, and critical thinking skills.
Outcomes & Impact
The workshop demonstrated significant engagement from Korean university students, who showed enhanced understanding of global development challenges and increased empathy for people from different cultural and economic backgrounds. Under the expert guidance of UNESCO-affiliated educators, students developed actionable insights into sustainable development goals and their personal roles as global changemakers. The program's success at Kyung Hee University, facilitated by internationally recognized education leaders, reinforces RealLives' effectiveness in diverse academic contexts and its potential for scaling intercultural education initiatives across Asia-Pacific educational institutions.
Skills Developed
SDG’s Alligned with this workshop
Objective
To develop empathetic global citizens through experiential learning by enabling students at IIT Bombay to experience diverse life circumstances through RealLives simulation, process their emotional responses through structured reflection, and channel their newfound empathy into actionable social business solutions. The comprehensive ChangeMaker Program aimed to bridge the gap between awareness and action while fostering critical thinking about sustainable development goals and global challenges.
Program Overview
RealLives Foundation successfully conducted a comprehensive ChangeMaker Program at IIT Bombay, focusing on sustainable development goals and empathy-driven changemaking. The workshop engaged university students in an immersive educational journey that combined life simulation experiences with structured reflection and entrepreneurial thinking. Participants navigated through the complete RealLives ecosystem, experiencing lives across different socioeconomic backgrounds globally while developing measurable empathy and changemaking competencies through our proprietary assessment tools.
Implementation & Methodology
The program utilized our integrated four-step methodology: students first experienced diverse global lives through RealLives simulation, then processed their emotional responses using the Empathy Canvas framework, followed by generating personalized ChangeMaker Index reports analyzing their development across 18 competencies. The workshop concluded with students creating viable social business solutions using our Social Business Canvas, directly addressing challenges they encountered during their simulated life experiences. This experiential learning approach enabled participants to move beyond theoretical understanding of global issues to developing practical, empathy-driven solutions.
Outcomes & Impact
The workshop demonstrated significant measurable outcomes in student engagement and empathy development. Participants showed enhanced understanding of global disparities, improved critical thinking about sustainable development challenges, and increased motivation to pursue social impact initiatives. Students created innovative social business proposals targeting issues ranging from educational inequality to sustainable resource management, reflecting their deepened awareness of interconnected global challenges. The success at IIT Bombay reinforces RealLives' effectiveness in transforming academic learning into actionable changemaking capabilities across diverse cultural and educational contexts.
Skills Developed
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