Leadership, learning, and human systems

I help people, teams, and organizations learn, adapt, and stay human under pressure.

That work takes shape as books, assessments, workshops, and selective consulting — all grounded in real systems with real constraints.

This site is the hub: a place to see the landscape, then decide what is most relevant to the questions you are actually asking.

This is a working site, not a funnel. Look around, and if something connects, reach out.

Malcolm Eric Meadows
What I work on

The three domains where I'm building right now.

The details live on their own pages — this is the map.

Stress, self‑care, and sustainability

Book, workbook, and workshops.

A practical approach to managing stress and self‑care that supports long‑term effectiveness, not burnout disguised as resilience. Built for people working under real constraints.

Stress & self‑care work
AI career exposure

Assessment and applied tools.

An assessment app designed to expand how people see possible paths forward, anchored in exposure rather than hype. Now in final testing with early users, with plans to broaden its reach.

AI career exposure work
Organizational learning

Book and assessment framework.

A forthcoming book and set of tools focused on how organizations identify and address learning weaknesses — including the possibility of future team and organization‑level assessments.

Organizational learning work
Grounding

Where this work comes from.

Ideas are shaped by where we actually live and work. For me, that is inside a real system with real constraints.

Operational responsibility

Alongside this work, I serve as the NC DHHS EBT Call Center Manager, leading a team in a high‑pressure public service environment that supports roughly 1.4 million clients and distributes about 2.7 billion dollars in benefits each year.

That context shapes how I think about leadership, stress, and learning: systems that cannot pause, people working under strain, and the difference between what is elegant in theory and what is workable in practice.

Scope and selectivity

I am highly selective about consulting work and 1:1 engagements. I am much more interested in serious questions and long‑term impact than in reach or follower counts.

Earlier in my career, I held leadership and teaching roles in independent schools, with responsibilities spanning governance, technology integration, accreditation, and organizational restructuring.

Contact

Start a conversation.

If you are interested in workshops, organizational assessments, or a focused collaboration related to the work above, this is the place to begin.

Reaching out begins a conversation; it does not commit either of us to a particular format or engagement.

The most reliable way to reach me is email:

eric@myperformanceplus.org

A few lines are plenty: who you are — individual, team, or organization — and the question or work you have in mind.