Burnout Prevention and Work-Life Balance Talks That Actually Stick
No more snooze-worthy workshops.
My talks are designed to inspire, and my trainings give real-world tools that your team can use to beat burnout and lead like total badasses.
Over Half of Leaders Are Burned Out
Are you? What about your team?
With 53% of leaders reporting burnout, it’s clear that the hustle culture is breaking more people than it’s building.
Are you going to wait until your energy’s completely drained, or until your team is clocking out emotionally, if not physically?
Burnout won’t fix itself, and neither will the stress your team is carrying.
Source: More Than 50% of Managers Feel Burned Out (Harvard Business Review)
Talks and Trainings Designed for Results
Whether you’re looking for a keynote that leaves the room buzzing or a hands-on workshop that delivers practical tools, I’ve got you covered.
No more eye-rolling or glazed-over stares.
We’ll tackle burnout, work-life balance, and leadership strategies that actually work.
Types of Offerings:
- Motivational Keynotes: Inspire and energize your team to tackle burnout head-on.
- Hands-On Workshops: Equip leaders and teams with the tools they need to find balance and thrive.
- Corporate Training Programs: Customized training designed to fit your company’s unique culture and challenges.
15+ Years of Experience and a Personal Battle with Burnout
I’ve been designing leadership programs and facilitating growth for over 15 years, but none of that mattered when burnout took over my life.
I know how it feels to give everything to your career and still feel like you’re drowning.
Now, I use my expertise and my own recovery experience to create trainings that are more than just motivational – they’re transformative.
How It Works
Reach Out
Tell me what your team needs, because no two organizations are dealing with the exact same issues.
Book Your Talk
Whether it’s a virtual workshop or an in-person keynote, I’ll craft a session that’s custom-made for your audience.
Get Results
Your team will leave with practical, real-life strategies to avoid burnout and improve their performance.
Signature Talks
The Burnout Era: Leading When the World is Tired
We are operating in what I call the Burnout Era, a period defined by chronic overload, misalignment, and unrealistic expectations that no amount of resilience training can fix.
This keynote introduces the 5 Cs Driving Burnout™ (Conditions, Culture, Convictions, Choices, and Capacity) as a way to understand why burnout has become so widespread, even among capable, committed people.
Rather than blaming individuals, this talk helps leaders see burnout as a predictable outcome of how work is designed and led.
Audience takeaways include:
- Clear language for why burnout is showing up now
- A shift from individual blame to systemic understanding
- Insight into the difference between short-term fixes and sustainable leadership
- A grounded framework for addressing burnout as a leadership responsibility
Best for:
All-hands events, leadership kickoffs, conferences, mission-driven organizations, post-layoff environments
Burnout-Resistant Leadership: Redefining Effectiveness
Leadership has long been measured by output, endurance, and availability. That definition no longer works.
This keynote introduces Burnout-Resistant Leadership™, a modern leadership model built around four arenas of effectiveness: inner clarity, strategic judgment, operational pacing, and relational trust.
Rather than asking leaders to absorb broken systems, this talk reframes leadership as the practice of protecting capacity while still delivering meaningful results.
Audience takeaways include:
- A modern definition of leadership effectiveness
- Greater clarity around decision-making under pressure
- Language for setting boundaries without disengaging
- A leadership model that supports performance without depletion
Best for:
Leadership retreats, executive audiences, manager conferences, leadership development programs
Fix the Work, Not the People: Designing Burnout-Resistant Workplaces with RESTORE+™
Burnout isn’t caused by lack of wellness programs. It’s caused by how work is structured.
This keynote challenges the idea that burnout can be solved through perks or personal coping strategies. Instead, it introduces the RESTORE+ Workplace Design™ Framework, a practical, human-centered approach to redesigning work systems so that clarity, capacity, and sustainability are built in.
Audience takeaways include:
- Why burnout is a work design issue, not a motivation issue
- The core elements of burnout-resistant work
- A shift from helping people cope to fixing structural problems
- A clearer path toward sustainable performance and retention
Best for:
HR and People Ops leaders, executive teams, organizations navigating growth, restructuring, or chronic overwork
Signature Trainings + Workshops
Diagnosing Burnout at the Source
A working session using the 5 Cs Driving Burnout™
60-90 minutes
This session helps participants move beyond burnout symptoms and identify what’s actually driving strain in their roles, teams, or organization.
Using the 5 Cs Driving Burnout™ framework, participants engage in structured reflection and guided discussion to map the origins of burnout, without turning the session into a venting space.
Participants walk away with:
- A clear understanding of how burnout develops
- Insight into which burnout drivers are most active
- Shared language for healthier conversations
- A grounded starting point for sustainable change
Best for:
Teams, managers, HR, L&D, DEI leaders, organizations seeking prevention rather than crisis response
Burnout-Resistant Leadership™ in Practice
Leading with clarity, capacity, and care
90 minutes / half-day
This training brings the Burnout-Resistant Leadership™ model into real leadership scenarios.
Leaders examine how burnout shows up in decision-making, prioritization, pacing, and communication, and how to lead without absorbing overload or passing it downstream.
Participants walk away with:
- Greater clarity in high-pressure decisions
- Practical tools for pacing work sustainably
- Stronger boundary-setting without disengagement
- Leadership behaviors that reduce burnout risk over time
Best for:
People managers, leadership cohorts, internal leadership programs
Fix the Work: Redesigning Roles and Culture with RESTORE+™
Redesigning roles, workflows, and expectations
Half-day / full-day
This hands-on workshop focuses on the mechanics of work itself.
Using the RESTORE+ Workplace Design™ Framework, teams assess where roles, routines, communication patterns, and expectations are unintentionally driving exhaustion. From there, we work to redesign them to better support both performance and well-being.
Participants walk away with:
- A clear diagnosis of structural burnout drivers
- A role and workflow audit grounded in reality
- Practical redesign strategies they can test immediately
- A shared sense of ownership for sustainable work
Best for:
HR, People Ops, leadership teams, cross-functional groups
Burnout-Resistant Leadership™ Lab
A full-day leadership redesign experience
Full-day
This immersive lab is a capstone experience for leaders ready to rethink how they lead.
Participants engage deeply with the Burnout-Resistant Leadership™ model while integrating insights from the 5 Cs Driving Burnout™ and RESTORE+ Workplace Design™ frameworks. The focus is redesign—personal, relational, and systemic.
Participants will walk away with:
- A systems-level understanding of burnout in leadership
- Personalized insight into what’s draining capacity
- A sustainable leadership action plan
- Practical tools to redesign how they lead, communicate, and decide
Best for:
Leadership retreats, executive offsites, organizations investing in long-term leadership sustainability
Custom Programs
All talks and trainings can be adapted for audience, industry, and organizational context. Multi-session engagements, leadership series, and tailored programs are available.
Don't Wait for Burnout to Become a Bigger Problem
Waiting won't solve anything, but taking action will.
Burnout won’t stand a chance when your team’s equipped with real, actionable strategies.
With the right strategy, your team will be fired up, focused, and hitting goals like the badasses they are.
Because let’s face it, happy teams get sh*t done.
Specialties
Burnout Prevention
Career Advice
Leadership Development
Corporate Consulting & Training
Tara Kermiet
Corporate Burnout Strategist
Coach, Consultant, Speaker