PsychAtWork Magazine
Insight That Moves You Forward
A Literary and Art Magazine for Personal Development
Principles of Adaptive Leadership
Leadership today requires adaptive thinking, emotional insight, and strategies that drive lasting impact. Effective leaders must develop key abilities to adapt to changing environments. This is about challenging the old playbook and leaning into leadership that’s agile, grounded, and effective in the real world—leading in today's world requires not just strategy, but also the willingness to challenge norms. Those who lead with adaptive thinking and emotional insight become leading examples for others in their organizations.
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Featured Series
Dive into a world of transformative insights and practical guidance with our specially curated series. Each series is designed to address pivotal aspects of personal growth, wellness, and support. Each series includes practical examples to help you apply these concepts to your own life. Whether you’re navigating the complexities of college life, seeking balance in our digital world, or looking to provide compassionate support to victims of crime, our featured series offer valuable resources and enlightening perspectives. Engaging with these resources can lead to a positive outcome, such as improved well-being or career advancement.
Editor's Pick
Think executive function is just an ADHD topic? Think again. Executive function involves key processes in the brain that support focus, planning, and decision-making. This sharp, 4-minute read makes the case for EF as the overlooked key to your performance, leadership, and long-term success. Whether you’re a high achiever feeling foggy under pressure or a leader looking for your next level, this article shows why understanding your own cognitive wiring isn’t just insightful—it’s your competitive advantage. Understanding your cognitive wiring is essential for making progress in leadership and personal performance.
From the Pages
Curated insights, standout essays, and transformative ideas—selected to inform, challenge, and inspire your personal and professional growth. These essays and insights can spark new ideas for personal and professional development.
Search by category and dive deep into the PsychAtWork Magazine archive. Here you’ll find every article on personal development, career insight, and leadership growth—thoughtful writing that connects psychology to the realities of modern work and life. Whether you’re exploring purpose, managing change, or rethinking success, these archives offer perspectives to inform, inspire, and sustain your professional journey. Use the archive to gather insights and strategies that can help you build your own personal development plan.
Advancing Leadership and Teamwork
Professional life isn’t just about performance—it’s about becoming. Career growth is about becoming the person you aspire to be, integrating both your unique identity and your role within a team or organization. Career Corner brings together insight-packed reads on personal development, workplace wellness, leadership growth, and sustainable success. Whether you’re navigating burnout, building better boundaries, or leveling up your mindset, this is your space to reflect, reset, and rise. Focusing on personal development can lead to more satisfaction in your professional life.
1-Hour Reads
Depth. Expertise. No fluff. In a world of bloated bestsellers and shallow summaries, 1 Hour Reads bridges the gap: smart, accessible, and designed to empower.
Each guide includes actionable planning tips to help you organize your goals and take clear steps toward meaningful outcomes. The 1 Hour Reads series is for people who want meaningful change and zero filler.
Read it in an hour. Remember it forever.
Best Sellers
Reflective Reader
Insight. Reflection. Growth.
In a world where literature is too often reduced to analysis or trivia, Reflective Reader restores its purpose: a guide to self-understanding and change.
The Reflective Reader series is for people who want to engage with stories as mirrors for identity, resilience, and meaning.
Read with purpose.
Best Sellers
What No One Tells You About Your 30's
A New Series on the Decade Before Midlife
The 30s – Skill and Identity
Who do you become once the performance ends?
The 30s Series explores the quiet, unseen work of adulthood—where identity shifts from aspiration to intention. Through essays on skill, mastery, failure, and reinvention, this series examines how we build meaning in the middle decade of life. It moves beyond “crisis” to look at development as a process of refinement: what we choose to sustain, what we release, and who we become through practice.
From the psychology of selfhood and the evolution of career identity to the social patterns that shape belonging, each piece draws from the depth of clinical psychology, developmental theory, and lived experience. The result is a reflective body of writing that meets readers where they are—in transition, in progress, and often, in quiet transformation.
Read the series, reflect on your own becoming, and rediscover the power of deliberate growth.
The Emerging Hottest Topics in Personal Development and Career Excellence
Personal growth used to be a matter of common sense—work hard, learn from mistakes, and try not to repeat them. Somewhere along the way, it became an industry. Now there are podcasts, workshops, and entire weekends devoted to “finding your purpose,” as if meaning were a misplaced set of keys. The truth is simpler and less glamorous: we grow by paying attention.
Careers have followed a similar path. The old ladder has become a labyrinth, full of side doors and dead ends. Success, once defined by titles or tenure, now has more to do with endurance—understanding yourself well enough not to collapse under your own expectations. What used to be called maturity is now marketed as “self-awareness,” but the work is the same: learning to see yourself clearly and act accordingly.
The ideas that follow reflect that shift—the steady, sometimes uncomfortable process of thinking harder, working smarter, and living with more intention. Dive in and get ahead of the curve.
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Cody Thomas Rounds
Welcome to PsychAtWork, a space thoughtfully crafted to support your journey in personal development, professional resilience, and mental well-being. Our mission is to provide meaningful resources that address the unique challenges you face in navigating today’s world—whether you’re striving to excel in your career, deepen your self-awareness, or enhance your emotional resilience.
As a clinical psychologist and long-time advocate for professional wellness, I understand that success and fulfillment come from a delicate balance of self-reflection, intentional growth, and a commitment to well-being. Each piece in this magazine offers practical advice, insight-driven resources, and diverse perspectives—tools to build emotional resilience, support self-discovery, and empower you to approach life with clarity and strength. You’ll find actionable insights on topics ranging from executive and leadership coaching to digital mental health, as well as support resources for neurodivergent individuals, techniques for managing burnout, and strategies for building a balanced and fulfilling career.
Here at PsychAtWork, we believe in the power of accessible mental health practices. By understanding cognitive patterns and applying self-awareness tools, each reader can unlock their potential. This publication serves as a bridge, connecting evidence-based practices with the complexities of everyday challenges, fostering a sense of community in personal and professional growth.
Whether you’re a high-achiever looking to refine your work-life balance or a mental health professional seeking actionable strategies for clients, my goal is to make PsychAtWork a reliable source of support and inspiration. I’m honored to guide you through this journey toward personal development, resilience, and well-being.
Warm regards,
Cody Thomas Rounds, M.A.
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