Philanthropy Masterminds - Addressing Burnout: A Leader’s Insights on Self-Care in the Sector

Cassie Gruenstein discusses her personal journey with professional burnout and the period of rest, reckoning, recharging, and restarting that followed - a candid conversation about the specific ways impact leaders experience burnout and how to create internal self-compassion and external boundaries to support mental health and wellness at work.

BIPOC ED Coalition, Washington State - Sabbaticals for BIPOC Leaders

Excerpt: “A commitment to wellness for BIPOC leaders challenges cultural notions of “leader as martyr.” Burnout, exhaustion, and illness are not acceptable or inevitable norms. What would it mean for BIPOC leaders to be deeply resourced to prioritize self-care? How might sabbaticals enrich their sustainable leadership and what they could model for the next gen of leaders?”

Pitshou Moleka, Managing Research African Network, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo - Neuroscience, Workplace Spirituality, and Innovationology: Unlocking the Potential of Embodied Cognition for Transformative Innovation

Excerpt: “By learning to deeply attune to the intelligence of the body-mind, innovators can access a rich wellspring of intuitive insights, tacit knowledge, and creative inspirations that often lie beyond the reach of conscious, analytical thought.”

Harvard Business Review - When Mindfulness Does and Doesn’t Help at Work

Excerpt: “More than half of American employers offer some form of mindfulness training to their workers, contributing to a global corporate wellness market that’s valued at over $50 billion. But are these investments actually paying off?”