🚀 We launched! Everyone agrees human to human skills are vital right now, but there’s no consensus on how to quantify, teach, or learn them. We’re changing that! We unveiled eight proprietary Wrkwell soft skills and developed a methodology to answer the deceptively simple question, What does it take to work well, human >< human? The conversation that unfolded among cross-industry movers and shakers at our June Alpha Launch confirmed our value proposition (and then some).

🔭 We got Spacious! In November, we hosted our inaugural Buzz — a quarterly Zoom gathering where we dip into fresh workplace research together. Our first topic, Spaciousness, is a newly-minted theory by Megan Reitz and John Higgins that asks us to reframe how we source and protect our energy. The conversation was warm, substantive, and genuinely nourishing. Pure honey.

🎯 We synthesized! Attendance jumped 566% from Buzz 1 in November to Buzz 2 in March. Our second Buzz tackled Q1 engagement data from Gallup, SHRM, and ManpowerGroup — it was lively, interactive, and a little bit gameshow. The data confirmed what we all feel in our bones: it's rough out there. The Zoom room was galvanized anyway. Turns out, unpacking data in community hits different. For some, it was a reality check. For others, a call to action. For everyone, it was an opportunity to connect and calibrate.

🏠 Place, space, and pace matter now more than ever. Across our launch and both Buzzes, this was a drumbeat: people know what good looks like — dialed-in managers, engaged teams, sustainable pace — yet feel strangely far from it. 

🔑 Managers are the key that unlocks engagement. The data is unambiguous: managers are 1) the linchpin of engagement, 2) the least engaged people in most organizations, 3) the most likely to be looking for new work, and 4) the most underleveraged champions of change.

🔊 We're living and working in reverberation chambers — and we want out. The external noise — economic volatility, AI disruption, and relentless instability — bounces around inside organizations and people. We keep hearing a hunger for synthesis: someone to help you take the fragments, thread them together, and craft a way forward.

That is exactly what we're here for.

1) We’ve got room on the roster for 1-2 strategic advisement clients. Strategic advisement is an ongoing partnership designed to support decision makers who want to have our expertise on hand. Email [email protected] to see our prospectus. 

2) Come for the honey — stay for the Buzz! The next Buzz is Wednesday, June 17 at 12:00pm ET. The topic is Imposter Phenomenon. Let us know you’re coming via Calendly. If you missed our March Buzz, you can read Michaela’s recap on LinkedIn. Leave us a comment while you’re there! 😉

If you’ve found yourself feeling skeptical lately you’re not alone. Trust is at an all-time low. Gallup has been measuring Americans’ confidence since 1979 and the 2026 findings depict record lows. 

What does this data mean?

We’re split on where we live, how we live, what we believe, who we listen to, and how we vote. The thing we share is a dwindling faith in the fabric of society. No wonder it feels hard to engage at work and in passing interactions. Gallup didn’t measure interpersonal confidence in this poll, but with trust in institutions so low it follows that trust in our neighbors and colleagues may be low as well. 

What can we do? 

There are people in your life and at work who already trust you. You built those relationships through consistency and communication over time. You know how to build trust. This is where the heart comes in.

Our top tip for navigating a low trust landscape is to make time for trust-building interactions. 

So, when you can: 

In our heads, we have plenty of reasons to be low-trust. With our hearts, we can bridge the gap. 

Talk soon, 

A + M 

[email protected]