Jon Gerten
What to Say to a Struggling Employee: A Leader's Guide
For founders, CEOs, heads of school and HR leads: what to say when an employee is struggling, what to teach your managers, and what to put in place.

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Jon Gerten
What to Say to a Struggling Employee: A Leader's Guide
For founders, CEOs, heads of school and HR leads: what to say when an employee is struggling, what to teach your managers, and what to put in place.
What to Say to a Struggling Employee: A Leader's Guide
Mental Fitness
Why Employees Quit in January: What They Needed in October
January is the busiest month for job searching, and 42% of voluntary leavers say their employer could have prevented it. Here's what to do in October.
Why Employees Quit in January: What They Needed in October
Mental Fitness
Best Employee Wellbeing Platforms for Small Business Teams (2026)
Compare six employee wellbeing platforms for small businesses of 10 to 250 people: Forte, Headspace, Calm, Modern Health, Spring Health and Lyra.
Best Employee Wellbeing Platforms for Small Business Teams (2026)
Mental Fitness
Thanksgiving Icebreaker Questions
Thanksgiving icebreaker questions for every table: funny ones, kid-friendly ones, this or that, and Friendsgiving prompts that get everyone talking.
Thanksgiving Icebreaker Questions
Mental Fitness
Thanksgiving Questions for Work and Teams
25 Thanksgiving questions for work: morning meeting openers, team lunch prompts, and gratitude questions your team will actually answer.
Thanksgiving Questions for Work and Teams
Mental Fitness
How to Support Employees in Mission-Driven Work
74% of nurses feel emotionally drained multiple times a week. Here's how to support employees in a mission-driven organization, one person at a time.
How to Support Employees in Mission-Driven Work
Mental Fitness
Marine Corps Mental Toughness Is Trained
The Marine Corps doesn't define toughness as grinding through pain. Forte CEO Vineet Rajan on what it trains instead, and what burnout culture gets wrong.
Marine Corps Mental Toughness Is Trained
Mental Fitness
Five-Day PACER Plan for Mental Fitness
A free five-day plan to train Mental Fitness. One PACER rhythm a day, 10 minutes, one small action. Here is how it works and how to get it.
Five-Day PACER Plan for Mental Fitness
Mental Fitness
The Real Cost of an Unused Wellbeing Benefit
Traditional EAPs average 3-8% utilization, median around 5%. Here's why the real cost isn't the wasted spend, and what actually gets used instead.
The Real Cost of an Unused Wellbeing Benefit
Mental Fitness
The Difference Between Drift and Burnout
Drift precedes burnout by months and rarely shows up on a dashboard. Here’s the difference, and why most wellbeing programs only trigger once it’s too late.
The Difference Between Drift and Burnout
Mental Fitness
Agency, Not Willpower, Is What Changes Behavior
Only 41% of organizations say their well-being programs actually work. The research says willpower isn't the mechanism, agency is. Here's what that changes.
Agency, Not Willpower, Is What Changes Behavior
Mental Fitness
Why Every Forte Session Has a Human Coach
AI coaching apps deliver gains that fade fast. See the research behind why real human coaching still builds lasting leadership capacity.
Why Every Forte Session Has a Human Coach
Mental Fitness
Leading a School Through Constant Change
23% of the largest districts replaced their superintendent last year. Here's what change resilience actually takes, and how school leaders build it.
Leading a School Through Constant Change
Mental Fitness
The Case for Staff Mental Fitness After ESSER
44% of ESSER spending went to staffing. That money's gone. Here's the board-ready case for keeping staff Mental Fitness support.
The Case for Staff Mental Fitness After ESSER
Mental Fitness
Why School Leaders Burn Out Faster
85% of principals report frequent job stress, over twice the rate of most workers (RAND, 2022). Why school leadership burns out faster, and what HR can do.
Why School Leaders Burn Out Faster
Mental Fitness
Mental Fitness for Teachers: Train Endurance
53% of K-12 teachers report burnout in 2025 (RAND). Here's why psychological safety alone can't fix it, and how HR leaders build Mental Fitness
Mental Fitness for Teachers: Train Endurance
Mental Fitness
What Recovery Actually Looks Like at Work
New Eagle Hill Consulting data shows 55% of U.S. employees are burned out. Here's why PTO alone doesn't restore Capacity, and what actually does.
What Recovery Actually Looks Like at Work
Mental Fitness






