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Everyone's investing in AI right now. Your competitors are. Your leadership team is. Somewhere in the world, right now, another company is rolling out its third new tool this quarter alone.

But an important question is being overlooked in AI strategies: what is this costing the people who are interacting with the AI technology?

Q Studio explores the hidden cost of keeping up with AI in our newest newsletter. Read it here:

The Hidden Cost of Keeping Up with AI Everyone's investing in AI right now. Your competitors are.

echnical tools have a shelf life. The ability to meet whatever comes next with agility and flexibility is what lasts throughout an entire career.

✅ Adapt with shifting priorities
✅ Stay sharp when the work is unclear
✅ Reset when things don't go as planned
✅ Move with change instead of bracing against it

This week, as part of EY investment in the future careers of their summer interns, Q Studio delivered Mind Skills Training™ for Interns built on exactly this. This year's EY Americas Consulting Interns learned the science-based techniques to train the mind. These Mind Skills not only shape their first weeks but hold up way beyond the internship.

What impressed us was EY's foresight. They are giving the interns a head start on the 'skills of the future'.

Proud to partner with Whitt Butler, Susan Marshall and Amy Mait on this one!

The organizations that win will treat Mind Skills as core skills and train for them on purpose, and no better place to begin than at the very start of a promising career!

Freedom isn't just a date on the calendar — it's a practice.

The ability to choose how you respond, how you lead, and how you show up... that's a skill worth developing every day.

This 4th of July, we're celebrating the freedom to Think, Feel, and Do Better.

Happy Independence Day!

You still show up. Still hit deadlines. Still deliver. But somewhere along the way, the pull isn't there anymore.

This is what professionals and organizations across industries are beginning to recognize as a motivation crisis — and it's not being caused by laziness or disengagement, but by a systematic weakening of the internal conditions that make motivation possible.

Recognize the symptoms? Then ask yourself:

→ Do I still feel genuine ownership over how they think and act in their role?
→ Does my contribution feel visible, or has AI quietly made my capability feel invisible?
→ Am I still connected to why my work matters to the people around me?

When those conditions erode, no bonus or recognition program rebuilds them.
That's where Mind Skills Training™ comes in: building the internal capacity to sustain motivation even as the environment keeps shifting.

Learn more about what's really driving the motivation crisis, and what you can do can do about it on the Q Studio blog:

🔗 https://www.myqstudio.com/resources/rebuilding-motivation-overcoming-the-current-crisis-at-work

Rebuilding Motivation: Overcoming the Current Crisis at Work Many employees are experiencing a motivation crisis, feeling disengaged despite meeting work demands. This issue, exacerbated by AI’s impact on autonomy,

Motivation doesn't disappear all at once.

It fades slowly, until the person who used to care deeply is still showing up, still delivering — just no longer bringing all of themselves to it.

Motivation is not a performance problem, or a burnout crisis, but a quiet shift from purpose to obligation — and it's far more common than we realize.

In this month's In Focus newsletter, Q Studio explores the internal conditions that make people bring their best selves to work, why the current environment — including AI — is systematically eroding those conditions and what it actually takes to rebuild motivation from the inside out

Read the full In Focus Newsletter here:

🔗https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/focus-motivation-contributor-myqstudio-bzr5e/?trackingId=vkFGSVGRS%2BOL%2B6o%2FFCYscg%3D%3D

In Focus: The Motivation Contributor Daniel is very good at his job. He leads a team of eight, hits his targets, and has earned a reputation as reliable and sharp over his three years in the role.

There is something powerful about a room full of people who are fully present - not because they have to be, but because they genuinely care.

Last week, Q Studio had the privilege of partnering with Girl Scouts Nation's Capital to deliver mental wellbeing training for camp counselors across three of their camps - Camp May Flather, Camp Potomac Woods, and Camp Winona. These counselors are about to spend nine weeks as the first line of support for hundreds of young campers navigating big emotions, new experiences, and the kind of moments that stay with you long after summer ends.

The sessions were immersive, interactive, and deeply human. Counselors built their own self-care plans, worked through real scenarios, and practiced the skills they'll need to show up fully - for their campers and for themselves.

What struck us most was this: these are young people who already care deeply. Our job was simply to give them the tools to match that care with confidence.

We are proud to do this work alongside Girl Scouts Nation's Capital - because when we invest in the people caring for the next generation, everyone wins.

He didn't just guide us. He showed us what a steady mind looks like.

It wasn't always spoken out loud. Most of the time, it looked like getting back up when the weight was heavy. It looked like making the hard call and owning it. It looked like the one who kept moving forward, even when the road wasn't clear. Like knowing when to push, and when to simply be there.

Resilience. Quiet strength. Grounded wisdom. Unshakable love.

Choosing to show up with purpose, presence, and patience — every single time.

Wishing a Happy Father's Day to every father modeling mental strength in the small and big ways daily. You are building something that outlasts you.