Brilliant, brave,
and…tired?
Stop burnout in your team and find joy and meaning at work again.
Burnout is not just about stress. It's a crisis in the relationship between people and their work.
We help teams and leaders recover engagement, energy and meaning. We work with professionals who care about what they do, so they can keep growing without exhaustion.
Polina Kodess, Ph.D.
For 25+ years I've worked with smart, dedicated and overwhelmed professionals whom I respect and admire. Most of them have read plenty about burnout. What makes the difference is finally turning knowledge into real, sustainable shifts.
My work creates a space where your complexity is welcome, and where, step by step, the change you want actually starts to happen.
What changes after working together
A shared language
The first thing a team usually takes away is a way to name what is happening to them that is specific enough to use in the next meeting, not only in the room where it was learned.
Conflict that stops repeating
A lot of what looks like a workload problem turns out to be how people talk to each other under pressure. That is what the six-week program works on: boundaries, difficult conversations, and the patterns that bring the same conflict back.
A decision you can act on
Individual work starts by naming the problem accurately. Most people arrive knowing that something is wrong without knowing what kind of problem it is, and leave with one written page: what is driving the pressure and what to address first.
Where is your energy actually going?
Start with a six-question check-in. Two minutes, and your result appears right away.
Burnout Check-In
A quick check-in on your current level of personal exhaustion. Your result appears right away.
Three ways to work with your team
Read about it
From “It’s Just Stress” to Systemic Risk: Summary of the Latest Burnout Research
Burnout isn’t a fringe issue – over half of U.S. workers and more than half of leaders report feeling burned out. It’s not “some people can’t hack it”; it’s a structural pattern.
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When Other People’s Stress Lives in Your Nervous System: Emotional Contagion at Work
Sensitive, empathic professionals (in law, engineering, ops, client-facing roles) are more loved, more relied on, and more “used” as emotional shock absorbers – which quietly raises their burnout risk.
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How to Survive When You Can’t Drop Anything: Small Steps to Stay Sane When Work and Home Are Too Much
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn’t look dramatic from the outside. You’re still working.
Read more →Before You Fix Your Burnout: The Founder Burnout Map
Five sources of depletion, five routes back. For founders who keep performing while running on empty.
Growing sustainable success for professionals and teams.
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