unBurnt at Work
Modern Work Is Outpacing Human Capacity
The managers your transformation depends on are navigating AI rollout, hybrid team friction, and compounding pressure on top of an already maxed out operating rhythm. The result isn't always visible. It shows up as slower decisions, execution drag, and the quiet erosion of the leadership capacity your team can't afford to lose.
unBurnt® rebuilds that capacity at both levels: the operating conditions that create the overload, and the personal capacity that allows leaders to stay clear and effective.
And It’s Reshaping the Limits of Leadership
Companies are navigating the biggest transformation of modern work.
AI acceleration, constant digital noise, under-resourced teams, and hybrid environments that fragment attention and connection.
Hybrid and distributed teams are fragmented and harder to align
Managers are struggling, reactive and stretched too thin
Decision quality degrading under pressure
Teams drowning in context switching
HR is operating in crisis response
Leaders unequipped for the emotional and operational load
Burnout spreading through key talent layers
And the gaps are quietly eroding Business Performance
70% of managers report they don’t have the bandwidth to do all parts of their job well (Microsoft Work Trend Index).
Context switching consumes up to 40% of productivity, especially in hybrid and distributed teams (University of California Irvine).
65% of HR leaders say burnout is now their biggest risk to retention (Gartner).
Leadership attrition is up 30% in fast-growth companies, driven by emotional overload and decision fatigue (McKinsey).
Cognitive load from AI acceleration is spiking, creating more pressure, ambiguity, and noise, not less (MIT Sloan).
Today’s managers are not just overloaded. Thy are operating inside systems that fragment attention, blur priorities and keep teams stuck in reaction mode.
Expectations shifting faster than teams can realign
Workflows shaped by interruption, urgency, and constant context switching
More emotional labor and people complexity without enough space to recover or think
Pressure mounting while clarity, focus, and decision quality quietly erode
Cognitive bandwidth shrinking under AI acceleration and digital noise
This is a capacity problem. When managers are depleted, leadership becomes more reactive, execution gets noisier, and stress moves through teams faster than most organizations can see.
unBurnt® helps companies address this at the root. Our science-backed programs give leaders and teams practical ways to reduce friction, manage stressors, and embed resilience into workflows to infuse capacity and improve long-term value.
Protecting people and performance.
This isn’t a knowledge gap. It’s a capacity gap.
Modern leadership requires coping skills plus it demands a system that protects clarity, focus, and human energy.
“When Burnout Looks Like Productivity: The New Risk to Innovation Capacity” As burnout increases, innovation capacity declines, indicating that burnout is not just a wellbeing signal. It is a measurable and predictive innovation risk indicator.
Research with unBurnt + Bentley University Center for Health and Business exploring new construct: Innovation Capacity
What’s inside:
Why burnout can remain hidden inside high-performing teams
How burnout changes the way people work, not just how they feel
Why visible activity and sustainable innovation capacity are not the same
Which workplace conditions are most strongly associated with burnout
What these findings mean for leaders navigating performance, change, and AI-enabled work
This is how teams reduce noise, increase execution quality, and build a culture of sustainable performance.
unBurnt Programming
Leadership Capacity Rebuilt
Designed for managers and senior leaders navigating high-demand, fast-change environments: where AI transformation, execution pressure, and team development land simultaneously.
Across four weeks, participants weave together wellbeing, resilience, and leadership skills to recognize early burnout signals, minimize friction, and re-shape team rhythms that sustain performance and unlock long-term success.
4-week Team Cohort Program
Core Pillars
• Early Risk Detection Risk
Identify escalation patterns before performance drops, turnover rises, or costly fires emerge.
• Micro-Habits for High Performance
Small behaviors embedded into daily workflow that improve clarity, communication, execution and trust.
• Behavior Change in the Flow of Work
Leaders practice tools inside their real work rhythms, not in theoretical scenarios.
• Stress-Load Reduction
We pinpoint the operational stressors draining capacity and address them with targeted, evidence-backed interventions.
Cohort Program Design by Week
Week 1: Recognizing Stress: Identify early indicators of burnout in yourself and your team. Build awareness to catch and manage stress patterns before they escalate.
Week 2: Personal Resilience Foundation: Learn the unBurnt® micro-habit framework for sustaining energy, focus, and clarity in high-demand environments.
Week 3: Operational Resilience Baseline: Introduction to team stress signals, with resets that build trust and psychological safety. Learn practices to help teams stay engaged and high-performing.
Week 4: Sustainable Systems Integration: Co-create high-impact shift to streamline workflows, clarify roles, and create systems that support lasting performance and morale.
What’s Included
Weekly 60-minute cohort sessions (4x)
Micro-habit assignments built for real life
Breakout sessions to build peer connection + accountability
Pre and Post Leadership Resilience Survey
Leading Indicator Improvement ROI Readout
Leaders Leave With
Sharper decision quality under pressure, with a personal baseline and early warning signals
Clearer team operating norms that reduce escalation, rework, and reactive management
A workflow or role clarity change tested in their actual team
Pre/post data showing movement on leading capacity indicators
A shared leadership language that doesn't require the program to sustain it
Free Capacity Diagnostic
The Capacity Diagnostic is a proprietary assessment, rooted in our research, that maps team friction before it shows up in your performance data.
Four dimensions. One clear picture of where capacity is holding and where it's leaking.
Whether your organizational environment is generating burnout risk
Whether your operating structure supports focused execution or fragments it
Whether your leadership layer has bandwidth to lead or is just keeping up
Whether your culture makes it safe to surface problems early (or not)
It takes 3-5 minutes. Results are instant. And it's free.
Results + Wellbeing
They can coexist. Here’s why investing in building resilient teams has never been more important.
Always-On Work Cultures Are Draining Teams
“The infinite workday”, according to Microsoft 57% of meeting are ad hoc and meetings after 8pm are up 16%. (Microsoft, 2025).
Employee Engagement hit a 11-year low (Gallup, 2024).
92% of employees report work stress negatively impacts their sleep at least occasionally (Headspace Workforce, 2025).
unBurnt helps companies identify early warning signs of burnout related to overwork and implement proactive solutions of resilience training and workflow design.
The Age of AI Brings New Burnout Risks
Employees using AI daily report 45% higher burnout rates (Quantum Workplace, 2024).
77% of knowledge workers say AI tools have added to their workload, not reduced it (BBC, 2024).
Rapid tech and AI shifts are overwhelming teams without training strategies in place.
unBurnt equips organizations to balance innovation with sustainable human performance, before tech-driven stress takes a toll.
Loneliness and Disconnection Are Silent Burnout Drivers
21% of U.S. adults report serious loneliness (Harvard, 2024).
Mental Health leaves of absences are on the rise, according to 51% of HR leaders (Headspace, 2025).
Hybrid and remote work environments, while flexible, are increasingly transactional and isolating.
unBurnt helps companies rebuild collaboration rhythms, foster authentic connection, and support emotional wellbeing in hybrid environments.
More Workplace Solutions
unBurnt® Micro-Habits to Build Capacity | 1-hour Team Workshop
As professionals and humans in this ever-changing world - we’re all carrying a lot. In this fast-moving and interactive session, join unBurnt® founder Alison Campbell to learn what's going on when we're chronically stressed, plus habits to reduce overwhelm, reset our nervous system, and build capacity into your everyday rhythms.
Workshop Outline:
Learn the early warning signs of burnout
Understand the impact on wellbeing and performance
Interactive workshop exercises to integrate quick resets into every day rhythms
Custom Leadership Offsite Experiences
Cultural Norms for Sustainable Wellbeing & Performance
This tailored engagement surfaces stress signals and burnout risks, to translate them into clear opportunities for growth. Together, we shape outcomes that make wellbeing a driver of performance. During a focused half-day workshop, your team identifies cultural leverage points that strengthen planning, execution, and long-term resilience.
Formatted for:
Team Wellbeing Strategy: co-creating cultural norms at early-stage companies
Leadership Offsite & Strategic Planning
Executive Team Building
Alison Campbell | Founder, unBurnt
Founded by a former Chief of Staff with nearly two decades in high-pressure industries, unBurnt® blends operational expertise with science-backed stress management solutions to drive real impact.
When Execution Quietly Slows
Decision delays, rework, and disengagement rarely appear all at once.
This tool helps leaders surface the early signals of execution drag — using industry benchmarks for burnout-related turnover and productivity loss.
Industry data suggests burnout can drive meaningful turnover risk within 12 months
Replacement costs often exceed expectations
Productivity loss compounds quietly under sustained overload