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Margi Fox
Margi Fox is Chief Human Resources Officer at Schlaupitz Madhavan, one of Michigan's Top 25 accounting firms, where she leads HR strategy, talent development, and operational excellence as the firm continues to expand. She brings more than 20 years of strategic HR leadership across real estate, manufacturing, and fintech, having held senior roles at a REIT, a high-growth fintech company, and a Tier 1 automotive supplier in both the U.S. and Brazil.
Psychological Capital: The Fuel Leaders Don't Notice Until It's Gone
Margi's recent writing highlights psychological capital, or PsyCap, a concept she describes as a distinctly human superpower: a psychological fuel so innate to daily work life that people barely notice it until it disappears. PsyCap breaks down into four components, hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism, which together predict performance, engagement, and wellbeing at work far more reliably than perks or programs. She brings that same people-first lens to spearheading large-scale HR transformations, including succession planning, union negotiations, and total rewards strategy, drawing on a Master's in Labor and Human Resources from The Ohio State University and certifications as a Lominger Leadership Architect and AchieveGlobal Certified Facilitator.
Topics Margi speaks on
- Psychological capital: hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism at work
- Building HR infrastructure for growing professional services firms
- Succession planning and total rewards strategy
- Employee relations and union negotiations
- Fostering high-performance workplace cultures across industries
Sessions with Achieve
Margi is a featured presenter on the Achieve webcast "Appreciation@work: Impact Accelerator #1 - From Nice-to-Have to Non-Negotiable Performance System" (November 12, 2025), alongside Dr. Jermaine King of the United States Air Force and Tyrese Manigault of NASCAR. The session covers what it takes to move a performance and recognition system from an optional program to a genuinely embedded part of how an organization operates.
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