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About MH3
MH3 is not just a proactive mental health & well-being platform; it's a strategic investment. We empower HR, managers, team leaders, and community leaders to build thriving cultures. Our data-driven approach helps you boost revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risks.
Our Story
At MH3, we believe mental health & well-being isn’t just a checkbox—it’s a transformative force that can shape organizations and empower individuals. Our mission began with a personal story, one that inspired our founder, Rico Ricketson, to take action.
Why We Do It
As a minority, disabled, and LGBT-owned business, we believe championing mental health & well-being in today's workforce and communities means elevating diverse perspectives, tailoring content to meet their unique needs and life experiences, and standing beside employees and leaders as they chart their own path to being their best selves. To do that, our founder, Rico Ricketson, began by interviewing health and wellness experts from a myriad of fields to discuss issues around both mental and physical health & wellness. Since founding, we have learned a lot and have chosen to make a difference in the workplace and community.
Our vision is to make preventative mental health and well-being a workplace & community standard.
We also believe that diverse mental health & wellness experts are the leaders our world needs to develop the tools and solutions to drive the urgency to change for the better. To match our belief, we are dedicating our time and passion to providing comprehensive mental health & well-being solutions helping drive greater employee and community member engagement, performance, collaboration, and leadership by bringing these underrepresented entrepreneurs straight to you. Our services are brought to you through our vast network of 50+ diverse experts to customize what your workforce & community needs.
Now, you may be wondering why we’re called MH3. In March of 2020, COVID-19 began hitting an
ill-prepared world. As quarantines and self-isolation became the norm, we realized that the fundamental way of life for everyone would change drastically, and we didn’t know for how long. We also knew what that would mean for many vulnerable groups across the world, groups that were already dealing with stigmas associated with mental health & well-being, that could become exacerbated during COVID-19
-and now beyond it.
So, we got to work and brainstormed what we could do to help people cope with this new norm. The result? We founded Mental health for mind, body, and spirit, a place where anyone could come to learn more on a variety of mental health and wellness topics hearing from experts, professionals, and survivors themselves. Mental health for the mind, body, and spirit is also a mouthful, so we shortened it to MH3. Welcome to MH3!
Thank you for your help. Nice people still do exist in this world.
I now believe my products have a fighting chance!
Debbie Edmunds
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, CART
MH3 Incubator Pilot Participant.
July 2020
THE 4 E'S OF MH3
At MH3, we are committed to the 4 E’s across all of our
mental health & well-being product and services
End
the Stigma
through the real-life and professional experiences of diverse mental health &
well-being advocates and experts.
Educate
on the Science
associated with a mental stressor and/or mental health challenges with credible mental health & well-being education of the mind, body, and spirit.
Empower Individuals
to utilize their inherent wisdom, capabilities, and intelligence in solving problems, achieving goals, and transforming their future.
Evolve Organizations
to shift leadership from
transactional to transformational.
Meet The Team
Rico Ricketson
Founder & CEO
As a survivor of Domestic Violence, an ethnically motivated
hate crime and the grandson of a Lt. Col. of the United States Air Force, our founder, Rico Ricketson has always had a sense of urgency to help in a time of need.
When Rico learned of Covid-19's spread throughout Italy in March of this year, he took a step back from the advertising industry. Using his passion and desire to help and save lives, Rico took his 20 years of healthcare marketing experience and combined it with his expertise in human-centered design and his Master's in Biology/Neuroscience to create MH3 so he could do something to help.
Our world had changed overnight, yet we were looking to celebrities and media to provide us with direction. But, for our founder, it was capturing the stories of diverse mental health & wellness experts that would help and save others from mental health related outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rico is an alumnus of the 2021 CVS Health Executive Learning Series for Diverse Suppliers and the 2023 Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
Learn about our Network of Experts
MH3 works closely with leading mental health & well-being experts to ensure our products and services are rooted in clinical expertise. Through collaborations with experts from Artesian Collaborative, we provide effective mental wellness solutions tailored to your workforce’s needs.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity is at the core of MH3.
As certified LGBTBE®, DOBE®, and MBE,
we work to ensure that mental well-being is accessible to everyone. We strive to create solutions that reach every employee, regardless of their background, and foster work environments that are truly inclusive.
We Are Proud To Be
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Minority, Disability, and LGBT-certified
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Partners with organizations in the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.S.
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Recipients of the Rising Star of the Year Award 2023 from CVS Health
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NGLCC LGBT Supplier of the Year Nominee for 2023 and 2024 (nominated by CVS Health)