Beyond Heroics
Corporate keynote

Beyond Heroics

The hidden behaviours driving burnout and what actually helps

The keynote

Burnout in high-pressure environments isn't caused by a lack of resilience. It's driven by behaviours we've been taught to see as strengths: relentless positivity, coping alone, pushing through. This keynote challenges the hidden norms that quietly drive burnout in individuals, teams and organisations, and reframes resilience: not as pushing through, but as processing through.

Key takeaways
Recognise how “heroic” behaviours like constant positivity and coping alone can unintentionally contribute to burnout
Understand why people who appear to be coping best may be the ones most at risk, and how to respond differently
Learn a simple, practical way to regulate your own stress and reduce its impact on those around you
Best for

Leaders and teams in high-pressure, high-responsibility environments who want to build sustainable performance and protect their people from burnout.

Tags
Burnout Resilience Leadership Wellbeing
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From audiences

Jo Prendergast’s burnout keynote was extremely well received, and conference delegates were still talking about the takeaways and how they would action them a few days later.

Director Rural Health Pathways, Tasmanian Department of Health
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