Michelle Nicholson

Twelve weeks later, I can say this with certainty: my business is advancing, and I am different too. I officially completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program in Baltimore, and I will not pretend it was easy. There were long days and demanding assignments, and a four-hour commute that tested me more than once. I kept showing up anyway, because somewhere along the way I found a definition of resilience that reframed everything for me. Resilience, I learned, is not the absence of...

The 2026 numbers are in, and they are sobering. Only 39% of employees report high well-being, an 11-point drop from 2024. For the third year in a row, financial well-being ranks dead last among the five dimensions of well-being. And middle managers are burning out at more than three times the rate of the people they lead. For the HR practitioner, the business owner, the corporate leader, this looks like disengagement, turnover, and a culture that quietly erodes while your health plan sits...

It is impossible to talk about changing organizations and their cultures without talking about changing ourselves and healing our wounds. - Gabriela Alcalde If you're tired, research confirms it's not personal failure. It's systemic. In a landmark study on women's fatigue, researchers found that 80% of women ranked persistent exhaustion among their top 10 health concerns. What did women attribute this to? Not depression or anxiety, though both emerged later. Women cited what social scientist...