Eric Jones

We assume the person at the top has the most influence, the strongest network, and all the answers. Often, they have the fewest places to be honest. Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report found that leaders are 10 percentage points more likely than individual contributors to report feeling lonely. Leaders may have better lives on paper, but their daily experience includes more stress, anger, sadness, and isolation. That loneliness rarely stays contained. It can quietly become...

Resilience isn’t a wellness perk. It’s an operating skill. When pressure rises, many leaders ask, “How do we get people to push through?” A better question is, “What helps this team recover, adapt, and stay connected while the work changes?” That reframe matters. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 found that resilience, flexibility, and agility rose 17 percentage points in importance since 2023. They are now among the top differentiators between growing and declining roles....

Your team may not need another wellness perk. It may need a relationship repair. A meditation app cannot rebuild trust after months of ignored workload concerns. A fruit basket cannot make a manager feel supported. A yoga class will not fix a culture where people are afraid to tell the truth. That is the burnout loop: organizations treat a relational breakdown like an individual wellness problem. The cost is enormous. Gallup’s 2026 global workplace data reports that only 20% of employees are...