Oct 2, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
Managers are often the first people to notice when something is off with an employee. But do they have the tools to know what to do next? In this episode, Brad Swingruber, CEO at meQuilibrium (meQ)…
Brad SwingruberGuest
Solome TibebuHost
Super excited to be here, but as you said, I'm Brad Swingerum, the CEO at MeQ, and I've spent the last fifteen years in the human capital management workforce technology space.
I've had the pleasure of working with a lot of different companies, different shapes and sizes, and helping them scale and grow.
But really, I think what's excited me about MeQ is the fact that there's a huge focus on people, and I am a big advocate, and I am a big believer that people are truly the game changer at the end of the day for these companies.
So what I care about and what we at MeQ built around is fairly straightforward, but resilience, we'll see the term resilience all over our website and our marketing materials, but it's not just a soft skill, especially in today's market.
And when I say infrastructure, it's what holds, think of the culture together, and when everything else is changing, and I think we know in today's world, change is the common term, change management.
And we think in AI headwinds, all the M&A activity that our customers go through, and even some of the economical challenges that people are faced with today.
But most companies don't actually know what state that infrastructure is in across their workforce, and we help them identify that and solve for that.
So almost all of the money in today's market is driving towards culture, and supporting behavioral health has gone into more of, I would say, access.
Like, let me get more apps, let me default maybe to an EAP solution, and this creates more logins, and frankly, more access points where employees and managers have to go to.
And don't get me wrong, EAPs are necessary, and there's absolutely solutions out there that are powerful, but access is very important and matters, but access isn't the same as adoption.
And adoption is something that has to be measurable and measured with improvement.
So there's this gap in the middle, and a gap is vital for overall success, and I'm glad we're talking about it today because we look at that gap as managers.
And managers really activate these employees and provide that level of access and bridge this gap that we're talking about.
Super excited to be here, but as you said, I'm Brad Swingerum, the CEO at MeQ, and I've spent the last fifteen years in the human capital management workforce technology space.
I've had the pleasure of working with a lot of different companies, different shapes and sizes, and helping them scale and grow.
But really, I think what's excited me about MeQ is the fact that there's a huge focus on people, and I am a big advocate, and I am a big believer that people are truly the game changer at the end of the day for these companies.
So what I care about and what we at MeQ built around is fairly straightforward, but resilience, we'll see the term resilience all over our website and our marketing materials, but it's not just a soft skill, especially in today's market.
And when I say infrastructure, it's what holds, think of the culture together, and when everything else is changing, and I think we know in today's world, change is the common term, change management.
And we think in AI headwinds, all the M&A activity that our customers go through, and even some of the economical challenges that people are faced with today.
But most companies don't actually know what state that infrastructure is in across their workforce, and we help them identify that and solve for that.
So almost all of the money in today's market is driving towards culture, and supporting behavioral health has gone into more of, I would say, access.
Like, let me get more apps, let me default maybe to an EAP solution, and this creates more logins, and frankly, more access points where employees and managers have to go to.
And don't get me wrong, EAPs are necessary, and there's absolutely solutions out there that are powerful, but access is very important and matters, but access isn't the same as adoption.
And adoption is something that has to be measurable and measured with improvement.
So there's this gap in the middle, and a gap is vital for overall success, and I'm glad we're talking about it today because we look at that gap as managers.
And managers really activate these employees and provide that level of access and bridge this gap that we're talking about.
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