Michelle Nicholson

What behaviors are we informally rewarding? - Michelle Majette The cost of a misaligned culture is quantifiable. Today, many organizations are facing profound cultural dissonance —a toxic reality where stated, aspirational values completely contradict the high-pressure environments employees actually experience. When execution feels like walking through mud, leaders often mislabel the resulting exhaustion as a lack of individual resilience or "change fatigue." But burnout is not a personal...

Every leader I've worked with can identify exactly what prevents them from resting. The barriers are real, tangible, and often feel insurmountable—yet naming them is the first step to resistance. Rest is not a luxury add-on to leadership; it is infrastructure for clear thinking, humane decision-making, and sustainable impact. ​ A full schedule packed with competing priorities tops the list, blending professional obligations with personal commitments until there is no margin left . Staff...

Entrepreneurship has its moments. I’m a people person through and through. I can meet new people easily, talk to strangers, show up to events alone, work a room, and genuinely enjoy it. Networking, for me, isn’t usually the hard part. But recently, I had an experience that reminded me of something every entrepreneur eventually has to learn: Not every connection is aligned. And, not every “yes” is really a yes. When the Follow-Up Feels Like a Trap I connected with someone at a networking...