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Gratitude for 2025 and Peace and Prosperity in 2026!
As 2025 comes to a close, I'd like to thank our clients and partners for your trust to do the sensitive work of investigations and conflict resolution within your organizations and teams. Trusting us to get it right, in both the process and the findings, is something I and this organization will never take for granted. Two goals for the last quarter of the year were to have monthly speaking engagements and no weeks without active casework. This latter goal may seem obvious or

Paul Nicholson
Dec 29, 20253 min read


How Managers Blunder into Investigations
Many workplace investigations land with findings against management and supervisory Respondents who express genuine shock at the...

Paul Nicholson
Sep 9, 20254 min read


Workplace Assessments: A Departmental MRI
I underwent an MRI last year to help diagnose neck pain that wasn't going away on its own. Being 2024, I was able to register to receive...

Paul Nicholson
Aug 25, 20254 min read


When External Complaints Collide with Workplace Investigations
It does happen from time to time: a complaint that an employee's external complaint has itself breached policy; essentially a complaint...

Paul Nicholson
Aug 18, 20254 min read


"What would your mother say?": A Personal Dedication in Work and Life
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Painting by Ruth Nicholson We've all heard it...

Paul Nicholson
Aug 12, 20254 min read


Implausibility on the Margins
The Complainant alleged that their manager made a series of unwelcome verbal comments about their body and brushed against them from...

Paul Nicholson
Aug 11, 20253 min read


A Very Particular Set of Skills
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired...

Paul Nicholson
Aug 5, 20253 min read
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