
Michaela Kerrissey
Associate professor of management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Business School alum who researches how organizations and teams innovate and create psychologically safe workplaces.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 29min
The perils of perfectionism
Jennifer Breheny Wallace, journalist studying achievement pressure; Ellen Hendriksen, clinical psychologist focused on anxiety and self-acceptance; Michaela Kerrissey, management researcher on psychological safety. They explore how perfectionism shows up in families and workplaces. Conversations cover mental health risks, when high standards become toxic, using vulnerability and mattering to reconnect, and reframing drive toward mastery.


