Every organization is different – different people, processes,structures, and relationships (Marcus, 2018). Therefore, the way each organization defines its values will vary depending upon its personality/culture.
Jalma Marcus, BS, RN, MS, HNB-BC, is a holistic nurse, author, and organizational catalyst with a career spanning nursing, education, consulting, entrepreneurship, and leadership. She has directed hospital departments, founded wellness centers, and developed accredited continuing education programs. Known as a courageous and “out-of-the-box” thinker, she blends big- picture vision with practical detail. Her forthcoming book explores energy as the blueprint that shapes who we are, how we work, and why we lead.
Jalma has also developed accredited continuing education programs, advised city governments, and co-authored published research on holistic nursing and organizational values.
Colleagues describe her as a courageous and innovative thinker who brings both curiosity and discipline to her work. She blends big-picture vision with detail-oriented follow-through, and is deeply committed to advancing holistic, patient-centered care. Her forthcoming book, Energy:
The Blueprint That Shapes Who We Are, How We Work, and Why We Lead, draws from her lived experience to explore energy as the foundation for resilience and transformation. As a catalyst and mentor, she engages individuals, teams, and leaders in discovering new ways to realign and grow.
In the words of the great philosophical cartoon character Calvin, created by Bill Waterson, “Just because everyone is speaking English, doesn’t mean they are speaking the same language.”
Every organization is different – different people, processes, structures, and relationships (Marcus, 2018). Therefore, the way each organization defines its values will vary depending upon its personality/culture. This is also true for the behaviors that translate these values into actions. “One of the most important elements of the high performance, values-aligned culture is a set of values that are measurable, tangible, and observable” (Edmonds, 2010). In other words, each organizational value needs well-defined behavioral parameters that clearly and specifically describe how the value is (and isn’t) demonstrated.
Ongoing and intentional self-aware of the essential acts of listening discovery and reflection are at to ourselves with compassion, finding the core of every form of self- meaning in our actions, understanding care (AHNA & ANA, 2013). It our beliefs, intentionally being present, is through these actions that we learn new and embracing all aspects of ourselves.
Jalma has been featured in "Beginnings" by The American Holistic Nurses Association, "Your Next Shift" by Living Sublime Well and Business Innovators Magazine.
Your Next Shift offers a dynamic listening experience. Host Elizabeth Scala has strategically crafted a program that provides both practical tactics and universal truths. Weekly episodes present listeners with spiritual mindsets to be themselves and entrepreneurial tools to do their best. Guest interviews illustrate the importance of showing up as ourselves in our work, while giving us concrete methods to do so. Your Next Shift, which informs, educates and up-levels our nursing career, certainly is cutting edge in the healthcare environments of today.
I recently had the great pleasure of speaking with Jalma Mesnick Marcus, Board Certified Holistic Nurse, Holistic Practitioner, Creator and Founder of the Quantum Alignment System.
It became quite apparent throughout our conversation, that from birth, Jalma was destined to “be different,” be an innovator, stand out from the crowd, be an influencer, a person who had interest in how everything worked as a whole and how system approaches link everything vs only treating the parts.
Through relationship, awareness, and resonance, we invite the possibility for healing and health to emerge within the patterns of connection.
These writings offer a window into the evolution of ideas that shaped my book, Energy: The Blueprint That Shapes Who We Are, How We Work, and Why We Lead. Each article explores how unseen energetic dynamics influence our capacity to lead, connect, and create coherence within complex systems. Together, they form a foundation—a living framework that bridges science, consciousness, and organizational life. As you move through these pieces, notice how awareness transforms into action, and how energy—when understood and aligned—becomes the most powerful force for sustainable leadership and collective healing.
Every organization is different – different people, processes,structures, and relationships (Marcus, 2018). Therefore, the way each organization defines its values will vary depending upon its personality/culture.
