Testimony supporting revised workplace anti-bullying legislation in Massachusetts During late June, I submitted oral and written testimony in support of the substantially revised workplace anti-bullying legislation I’ve drafted, filed as Senate No. 1316 (Sen. Paul Feeney, lead sponsor) in the current session of the Massachusetts legislature. The basics behind this revision are explained in the opening paragraphs of my written testimony, which you […] https://newworkplace.wordpress.....com/2025/07/03/test
No Kings Day: Celebration, resistance, and tragedy During the mid-to-late 1700s, Massachusetts would become a hotbed of activism and resistance toward the British Crown. It is, among other things, the site of the Boston Tea Party, when in 1773, colonists protested taxation without representation by marching over to the Boston Harbor, then boarded British merchant ships and tossed hundreds of chests of […] https://newworkplace.wordpress.....com/2025/06/15/no-k
Harvard Business Review: Leading workplace psychological safety experts oppose workplace psychological safety legislation Psychological safety, according to leading experts Amy Edmondson (Harvard Business School) and Michaela Kerrissey (Harvard School of Public Health) “means having an environment where people feel safe to speak up.” However, in a new Harvard Business Review piece titled “What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety,” they explain how the concept of psychological safety has been […] https://newworkplace.wordpress.....com/2025/05/19/harv
My recurring shoutout to healthy hobbies as a wellness practice Periodically, I use this blog to tout the value of pursuing healthy, immersive hobbies, especially during challenging times in our lives (such as here, here, and here). Given the fraught times we’re living in — especially here in the U.S. — I’m renewing that call. I consider hobbies to be a purposeful, self-defined form of […] https://newworkplace.wordpress.....com/2025/05/02/my-r
Watch: UIC Law Review therapeutic jurisprudence symposium Last Friday, I had the pleasure of participating in an online symposium on therapeutic jurisprudence, organized and hosted by the editors of the UIC Law Review, published by the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. The event allowed me to discuss my new law review article, “Designing Trauma-Informed Legislation: Drafting the Workplace Bullying Accountability […] https://newworkplace.wordpress.....com/2025/04/08/watc