Pressure is part of healthcare. Burnout doesn't have to be.

Positive Intelligence is the mental fitness program that helps healthcare teams stay calm, clear-headed, and focused as they navigate the demands of a complex system.

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The people delivering care deserve the same investment they give to others.

Healthcare professionals bring extraordinary commitment to their work every day. But the demands of the industry, including staffing shortages, administrative overload, and emotionally exhausting workloads, put even the most capable teams under compounding strain.

Positive Intelligence® (PQ) is the mental fitness program that helps healthcare leaders and teams perform at their best by reducing the internal friction caused by a demanding system.

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Wellness

The strain on healthcare professionals is measurable. So is the cost.

Burnout, attrition, and disengagement are costing your healthcare organization in ways that show up in budgets, patient outcomes, and team capacity.

$4.6 Billion

Estimated annual cost of physician burnout to the U.S. healthcare system, driven largely by turnover and reduced work hours. Source: AMA, 2024.

Healthcare professionals show up every day with skill and commitment. What erodes performance over time is the weight of the system itself: bureaucratic friction, staffing gaps, and emotional load that accumulates without relief.
 

What can be done today, inside your organization, to protect performance and keep your best people?

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What healthcare leaders are dealing with right now

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    Persistence of Burnout

    Physician burnout has dropped from a peak of 62.8% in 2021 to 43.2% in 2024, but physicians still experience burnout at significantly higher rates than the general U.S. workforce.¹

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    The $4.6 Billion Price Tag

    Burnout costs the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $4.6 billion a year, driven largely by physician turnover and reduced work hours.²

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    The Administrative Burden

    In 2024, physicians spent more than 20 hours per week on documentation and administrative tasks, on top of 27 hours of direct patient care.³

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    The Psychological Safety Gap

    Healthcare workers with low psychological safety are twice as likely to intend to leave their organization within the next year (41% vs. 19%).⁴

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    The Cost of Nursing Attrition

    When teams lack the mental “safety net” to speak up, medical errors go underreported, and turnover costs rise to an average of $56,300 per bedside RN.⁵

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    A Path to Improvement

    While burnout peaked in 2021, the steady decline since then shows that with the right organizational support, meaningful improvement is achievable.⁶

Positive Intelligence boosts performance and well-being among participants

Based on survey results from a cohort of 2,000+ PQ Program participants after seven weeks of mental fitness training.

92

%

report stronger teamwork and collaboration

91

%

manage stress more effectively

90

%

use mental and emotional energy more effectively

85

%

report increased happiness

84

%

show stronger conflict management

83

%

report improved self-confidence

Built for the challenges healthcare teams face

 

Positive Intelligence delivers mental fitness training designed to help healthcare professionals and teams perform with more focus, less friction, and greater clarity, even in demanding conditions. By combining individual app-guided practice with small accountability groups called Pods, teams build a shared language that turns individual resilience into collective strength.

How the PQ Program works

The PQ Program builds mental fitness by helping your team intercept negative thought patterns and activate positive reflexes. The result is more clarity, focus, and steadiness at work, even in high-pressure environments.

  • App-based practice your team can do between shifts. No travel and no disruption to patient care or team responsibilities.

  • Addresses the root causes of resistance to change, so improvement lasts beyond the program.

  • Builds the mental foundation that makes future training investments stick, maximizing ROI across every development initiative.

Strengthen emotional intelligence across your organization

PQ is one of the most effective ways to build Emotional Intelligence across an organization. In the PQ Program, participants strengthen 17 out of 18 EQ competencies.

*Percent of participants reporting improvement after only seven weeks of the PQ Program.

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98

%

experience EQ growth

84

%

improve service orientation competency

84

%

improve conflict management competency

78

%

improve change catalyst competency

76

%

improve influence competency

Ready to reduce burnout and retain your best people?

A few minutes of app-guided mental fitness practice each day, built on proven neurological science, creates lasting improvement in your team’s performance, well-being, and retention. See what it looks like for your organization.

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References

1. AMA National Physician Comparison Report, May 2025. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/us-physician-burnout-hits-lowest-rate-covid-19

2. Han et al., Annals of Internal Medicine, Estimating the Institutional Cost of Physician Burnout, 2019; (Updated data cited by AMA, 2024). https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M18-1422

3. AMA National Physician Comparison Report, August 2025. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/doctors-work-fewer-hours-ehr-still-follows-them-home

4. American Psychological Association, 2024 Work in America Survey: Psychological Safety in the Changing Workplace. https://www.apa.org/pubs/reports/work-in-america/2024/2024-work-in-america-report.pdf

5. NSI Nursing Solutions, 2025 National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report. https://www.nsinursingsolutions.com/Documents/Library/NSI_National_Health_Care_Retention_Report.pdf

6. AMA / Mayo Clinic Proceedings National Burnout Study, April 2025. https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/national-physician-burnout-survey