Workforce Brain Institute
COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE FOR HIGH-PRESSURE WORK
What looks like an attitude problem is often a recovery deficit.
When pressure, fatigue, and competing demands exceed a person’s capacity to recover, focus, judgment, consistency, and safety can change before the numbers do.
$136B+
Estimated annual employer cost from fatigue-
related health and lost productivity
97%
Of workers have at least one workplace fatigue risk factor.
Source: National Safety Council
When fatigue affects thinking,
it becomes a workplace safety issue.
Slower reaction time
Reduced attention
Limited short-term memory
Impaired judgment
Work-related fatigue can affect worker safety and health. Source: NIOSH
Built for the people who keep systems moving.
Shift-based teams
Changing schedules, long hours, and inconsistent recovery can impact alertness and safe decision-making.
Manufacturing &
Industrial teams
Precision, timing, and coordination depend on attention, judgement, and safe performance.
Screen-intensive teams
Cognitive overload, constant context switching, and back-to-back demands lead to mental fatigue and errors.
Who brings WBI into the workplace
Safety & EHS
Leaders
Operations
Leaders
HR & People
Leaders
Executives
Our Approach
Not another wellness program. A practical operating response.
WBI helps leaders recognize cognitive strain before it becomes a pattern of errors, conflict, absenteeism, or unsafe decisions. Complex science becomes shared language and recovery practices people can use during a real workday.
Identify
Spot the early signals of fatigue and cognitive overload before they become a pattern of errors, conflict, or unsafe decisions.
Interrupt
Give teams shared language and recovery practices they can actually use during a real workday, breaking the strain cycle where it starts.
Recover
Rebuild attention, judgment, and consistency so performance and safety hold shift after shift, leader after leader.
Huddles
Two pathways for two different kinds of pressure.
WBI meets cognitive demand where it shows up: on the floor, across long shifts, and inside the decisions leaders carry.
Pathway one
Shift-Based Workforce Huddle
When fatigue becomes an operating condition,
performance can change before the numbers do.
Practical support for rotating schedules, overnight crews, machine operators, warehouse teams, and other high-demand environments where alertness and judgment matter.
Recognize fatigue before an incident
Use recovery strategies that fit the workday
Pathway two
The Executive Huddle
Still growing. Still capable. Still evolving.
A confidential leadership experience offered in small executive cohorts. It provides a trusted setting for experienced leaders to examine sustained pressure and changes in focus or decision-making without diagnosis or fear.
No diagnosis. No fear. No generic wellness talk.
Meet the founder
Rhonda Mack
Founder & CEO | Cognitive Performance Strategist
Rhonda Mack is a Cognitive Performance Strategist and founder of the Workforce Brain Institute, where she focuses on protecting the cognitive capacity behind people, performance, and operations. With a background in health education, cognitive wellness, dementia education, and brain fitness, Rhonda brings a practical, human-centered approach to cognitive overload, stress, fatigue, and competing workplace demands.
Recent speaking engagements
Speaker, SHRM North Carolina 2026 State Conference
Mid Shift/Fade Shift Worker Huddle, Central Carolina Community College (2026)
NCHRA State Conference (2025 & 2026)
SuperHeRo Seminar – HR Leader (2026)
VASHHRA Conference (2025)
Connect
Start with a
Workforce Assessment.
Tell us what you are seeing across your workforce or leadership team. We
will help you identify the right starting point.
info@workforcebraininstitute.org