About Jonathan & Chief Psycho

I built Chief Psycho because it reflects how I already think and work.

As a founder and I/O psychologist, I spent years moving between building companies and working closely with leaders. Across those contexts, I kept seeing the same pattern. Capable people stepped into larger roles, took on more responsibility, and absorbed increasing pressure, often without systems that were designed to support that load.

Much of the leadership work I encountered framed this strain as a personal issue. Leaders were encouraged to be more resilient or more motivated, even when the underlying conditions were misaligned. That framing never aligned with what I was seeing in practice.

Based on my education, training, and experience, it was clear that most leadership difficulty was structural. Responsibility expanded faster than roles, authority, and support systems evolved to contain it.

Chief Psycho became a way for me to work from that perspective openly. It allowed me to integrate how I think as a psychologist with how I operate as a founder, and to focus on leadership as a load-bearing function rather than a personal performance.

That perspective shapes all of my work.

Chief Psycho exists because this is how I understand leadership and how I choose to work with people who carry real responsibility.