I rarely talk about being an I-O psychologist. But the more time I spent inside organizations, the more I saw the same blind spot - and a duck on the lake reminded me exactly who actually changes workplaces.

I've spent twenty years watching what pressure does to people. In hospitals, in the VA, and now in a paint studio in Seattle. What I keep seeing in corporate teams is the same jaw, the same shoulders, the same armor. Here's where it came from and what actually breaks the cycle.