by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Apr 23, 2025
Last week, Katy Perry and an all-female crew boarded Blue Origin’s latest suborbital space tourism stunt—er, “launch.” The mission was hyped as a win for women, a celebration of empowerment, and a symbol of progress. But the public reacted with anything but praise....
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Apr 16, 2025
In the early days of my career at Oracle, “disruption” was a buzzword so overused it became almost meaningless. We talked about it like it was the holy grail. If you weren’t disrupting something—your process, your product, your industry—you weren’t leading. So when...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Apr 9, 2025
I stole that line from a client I was working with in Orlando last week. This particular client is a global pharmaceutical and manufacturing company in the animal health space. We were about to kick off a leadership session with their top 100 leaders, all focused on...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Apr 2, 2025
In the 1990s, a group of high-earning professionals formed Workaholics Anonymous. A founder of the group said, “No matter how much work I did, it was never enough.” Sound familiar? This addiction is one we collectively share. It goes beyond an addiction to work—it...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Mar 26, 2025
A friend of mine once described working at Amazon as “building a rocket ship while being pushed off a cliff.” Back then, the company’s obsession with innovation made that intensity feel exciting. But today, Amazon’s attempt to reignite that startup energy feels less...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Mar 19, 2025
A year ago, I stumbled upon a video on YouTube that changed how I think about employee ownership. It wasn’t just another corporate success story—it was a moment of pure, raw emotion. Workers in a factory, some of whom had spent decades on the frontlines of their...
