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"I loved how authentic and engaging Ashley was. Her ability to match and build the group energy was palpable... We can certainly improve our client interactions by drawing on the tools she shared." -Attendee feedback collected by Edward Clunis, Personal Training Director at ACAC Fitness & Wellness Center - Richmond (June 2026) Most speakers on burnout will tell your audience to set better boundaries and take more breaks. I won't. I bring something most organizational speakers can't: I've sat in the executive chair and the therapist's chair. I spent 13 years inside mission-driven organizations watching brilliant people slowly lose themselves in work they loved. Then I became a psychotherapist and started seeing the same pattern from the inside - clinically. That combination gives me a framework that goes where most consultants stop. I don't pathologize your people. I diagnose your structure. Burnout isn't a personal failure - it's a design problem. And when leaders can finally see the structural gap between their values and their culture, they stop asking their people to carry what the system should be holding. Every engagement starts with diagnosis. Nothing is off the shelf, because the gap looks different in every organization - even when the symptoms look the same.
The Burnout Paradox: Why the People Who Care Most Burn Out First - And What Leaders Can Do Differently
Keynote, Workshop, Session • 30-60 min keynote / Half-day workshop
In mission-driven organizations, burnout rarely begins with apathy. It begins with commitment: people who care deeply, absorb too much, and keep compensating for organizational patterns no one has named. This keynote helps leaders understand why burnout persists in values-driven cultures, why the most committed people are often the first to break, and what leaders can do differently before commitment becomes depletion.
Key Takeaways
Audience
Mission-driven leaders, HR and people operations teams, healthcare organizations, nonprofits, associations, and values-led corporate teams. Ideal for leadership conferences, all-staff sessions, and L&D tracks.
Format
Duration
30-60 min keynote / Half-day workshop
Delivery
Burnout Is Not a Wellness Problem: Why Self-Care Cannot Fix a Structural Failure
Keynote, Workshop, Training • 30-60 min keynote / Half-day workshop
Many organizations respond to burnout with wellness programming, resilience messaging, or individual coping tools. Those supports may help people recover, but cannot repair the underlying causes. This session helps leaders distinguish between employee support and organizational repair, and identify where workload, authority, communication, and culture are producing preventable strain.
Key Takeaways
Audience
Healthcare and clinical teams, organizations with high-stakes or high-pressure cultures, leadership development programs, and HR and people operations audiences.
Format
Duration
30-60 min keynote / Half-day workshop
Delivery
When Mission Becomes the Mask: How Purpose-Driven Organizations Lose the Thread
Keynote, Workshop, Session • 30-60 min keynote / Half-day workshop
Purpose-driven organizations rarely lose their way all at once. Mission drift happens through small compromises, unspoken tradeoffs, and patterns of overfunctioning that slowly separate daily decisions from stated values. This session helps leaders recognize warning signs and rebuild alignment between mission, structure, and behavior.
Key Takeaways
Audience
Nonprofit boards and executive leadership teams, associations navigating strategic transitions, and organizations in periods of change - post-merger, post-leadership transition, or post-growth.
Format
Duration
30-60 min keynote / Half-day workshop
Delivery
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