by Dr. Tricia Groff | Dec 10, 2025 | Business Psychology
Over the years, I’ve been on the receiving end of many phone calls about death. While each personal death has its own set of struggles, workplace death is unique. It calls on leaders to make impossible calls about how to support, how to calibrate sensitivity...
by Dr. Tricia Groff | Nov 5, 2025 | Business Psychology
My client—a founder who’d built and sold his first business—got there first. I’d been an early adopter of AI, but he’d started using it more deeply in developing his second business. He’s optimistic and tolerant of risk, built a business at a young...
by Dr. Tricia Groff | Jan 20, 2025 | Business Psychology
It’s Monday. If you’re like me, sometimes you’re excited, and sometimes you want to pull the covers back over your head and stay in bed. Sometimes, it’s because you didn’t catch a break on the weekend, and you feel hurled into the week whether...
by Dr. Tricia Groff | Jul 29, 2024 | Business Psychology
“Am I wasting my life if I retire at 40?” I heard the angst in his voice, and I wanted to hug him. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard about the uncertainty and isolation of business success. I have a habit of writing about what I hear behind the scenes so that people...
by Dr. Tricia Groff | Apr 1, 2023 | Business Psychology
When Caring Creates Vulnerability The personal rights of a business owner are rarely discussed. Business owners with high-achieving personality styles have something in common. They are very responsible and they care a lot. Sometimes the caring combined with the...
by Dr. Tricia Groff | Dec 7, 2021 | Business Psychology
Navigating the Sudden Death of a Colleague I returned the call, expecting that the team needed me to help with an internal dilemma of some type. Instead, I learned that my client had died. There are no norms or traditions to handle the sudden death of a colleague, a...
