I think we can probably all agree that the world needs more kindness right now. More compassion, more generosity, more consideration for the experiences of others and more willingness to look beyond ourselves. Kindness is something I have believed in and advocated for throughout my work. When I wrote Burnout to Brilliance, I included a section about the importance of paying kindness forward, a concept first introduced to me by Carol Newland, founder of Worklife Architect. The principle is...

There is a particular kind of loneliness that can arise when something feels really off or wrong, yet nobody else appears to notice. Perhaps a comment lands strangely in a meeting, or there is an uncomfortable feeling of being diminished. Maybe you notice the information being relayed changes depending on who is in the room. As a result, you begin putting extra effort into meeting preparations, find yourself replaying conversations afterwards and struggle to switch off at night because you...

Why constant emotional calculation can quietly lead to burnout Have you ever reached the end of a working day feeling completely exhausted, yet struggled to explain exactly why? Perhaps your workload wasn't unusually heavy. Maybe you didn't spend the day rushing from one deadline to the next. And yet, somehow, you felt drained. Not because of what you were doing, but because of who you were doing it around. Maybe you found yourself choosing your words carefully. Reading the room before...