Mike Mohn, MBA
Founder
About Ember Ion
Reignition's Story
Ember Ion is Mike Mohn, Jen Phillips and Nicole Pappas.
The founding team
Three founders. Two of them at the bedside.
Jen Phillips, MSN, RN
Co-founder
Nicole Pappas, BSN, RN
Co-founder
WHY THEY BUILT IT
Every clinician remembers why they started: the moment they realized they could make someone’s worst day a little better. The work is full of those moments. The recognition almost never is.
Most feedback that reaches a clinician is the hard kind: a complaint, an incident report, a score. When praise does come, it’s usually a single person awarded while everyone else’s daily effort goes unseen. That isn’t the recognition people deserve by showing up and caring, shift after shift.
We built Reignition to change what gets noticed. The small acts of care aren’t extra, they are the job, and they deserve to be seen every day, for everyone who earns it. Because giving clinicians back the reason they started is how you reignite the people medicine depends on.
Ember Ion founding story
Our commitment
Never punitive. By architecture, not by policy.
Ember Ion LLC has a provisional patent application on file for the architecture.
Positive only
Every message is validated before it routes.
Never a performance record
Recognition is kept out of HR and performance systems.
Consent decides what moves
With Outcome Sharing off, no clinical data reaches the model.
Providers can opt-out
Silent, immediate, and it persists across every flow.
