The Nine22 Newsletter
No fluff. No filler. Just what leaders and HR professionals actually need to hear.
What's Inside Every Issue
The Nine22 newsletter doesn't follow a formula — but every issue is built around the same commitment: substance over soundbites, honesty over optics.
Straight Talk on HR Strategy
The kind of analysis you'd get from a senior HR leader in a candid conversation — not a whitepaper written for liability protection. Real observations about what's working, what isn't, and why most organizations keep making the same mistakes.
Podcast Highlights & Takeaways
Each new episode of HR Rewritten: A Seat at the Taboo Table generates a newsletter edition — the sharpest insights from the table, distilled into a short read with a link back to the full episode for those who want to go deeper.
The Uncomfortable Questions
The ones organizations tend to avoid. The ones that expose gaps in systems, leadership, and culture before those gaps become lawsuits, turnover crises, or public failures. If it makes you pause — good. That's the point.
Leadership Accountability
We don't let leadership off the hook. Issues regularly examine where accountability gets lost inside organizations — between executives and managers, between policy and practice, between what leaders say and what employees experience.
Practical Tools for Real Situations
Frameworks, decision filters, and thinking tools you can apply to what's actually happening inside your organization — not generic advice designed to apply to everyone and therefore useful to no one.
The Uncomfortable Questions
The ones organizations tend to avoid. The ones that expose gaps in systems, leadership, and culture before those gaps become lawsuits, turnover crises, or public failures. If it makes you pause — good. That's the point.
Who Reads the Nine22 Newsletter
If you're done with the sanitized version of the HR conversation — this is for you.
HR Professionals & Practitioners
You're in the room when the hard decisions get made — or you're handed the fallout after someone else made them. This newsletter speaks directly to the tension between what HR is asked to do and what leadership is actually willing to support. No performance. No politics. Just clarity.
Business Owners & Executives
You didn't get into business to deal with HR problems — but here you are. The Nine22 newsletter helps you understand the people systems underneath the problems you're seeing, so you can stop treating symptoms and start fixing root causes. Straightforward. Strategic. Built for leaders who actually do work.
Employees Navigating Workplace Reality
Not every reader sits in a leadership role. Some are mid-level professionals navigating broken cultures, understanding their rights, or trying to make smart decisions inside organizations that aren't always straight with them. This newsletter respects your intelligence and your experience — and it won't tell you to just stay positive.
A Note from Victoria
"I built this newsletter because the conversations that matter most in HR
are the ones nobody wants to write down."
After 25 years inside organizations — boardrooms and break rooms, executive suites and job trailers — I've seen what happens when leaders avoid honest conversations about their people systems. It costs them talent. It costs them culture. And eventually, it costs them the business they worked so hard to build.
The Nine22 newsletter is where I put down what I actually think — not what's safe to say, not what sounds good in a LinkedIn post, but what I'd tell a client who called me on a Tuesday because things were falling apart and they needed someone to be straight with them.
If that's the conversation you've been looking for — subscribe. It's free. And I promise I will never waste your time.
— Victoria Adams Forsberg, Founder, Nine22 Solutions
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