Load & recovery
Work volume matters, but so do sleep, exercise, travel, interruptions, decision density, availability, and whether recovery ever becomes real.
Executive coaching for burnout
Executive coaching for burnout that addresses more than workload.
For successful people who can keep performing long after the way they are performing has stopped being sustainable.
What tends to bring people here
Burnout is rarely just “too much work.”
Two people can carry similar workloads and experience them very differently. The difference may involve control, identity, perfectionism, guilt, role expectations, chronic vigilance, poor recovery, inability to delegate, or a life in which every important domain is competing for the same depleted attention.
The work is designed to identify what is actually draining capacity, what can change, what cannot, and which adjustments would create the greatest return without requiring you to abandon ambition or responsibility.
Common leverage points
The goal is not simply to do less. It is to stop spending energy where it produces the least value.
Standards & responsibility
Perfectionism, overfunctioning, difficulty delegating, and feeling responsible for everyone’s outcome can turn ordinary leadership demands into chronic overextension.
Meaning & misalignment
Depletion can intensify when success requires sustained effort toward work, roles, or expectations that no longer feel coherent with what matters most.
Three levels of depth
The engagement should match the problem—not force every client into the same process.
Focused Coaching
$2,750 · 2 months. One defined problem or outcome, four private meetings, implementation, and a brief continuation plan.
Integrated Coaching
$4,500 · 4 months. An interconnected problem, targeted assessment, concise written synthesis, eight meetings, and limited between-session support.
Private Advisory
$7,800 · 6 months. Comprehensive whole-person assessment and profile, twelve meetings, greater access, and an updated final synthesis.
Why whole-person coaching
The visible problem is not always the whole problem.
Whole-person coaching looks for the interaction between professional demands and the person carrying them: nervous-system load, habits, relationships, home life, identity, purpose, recovery, and recurring decision patterns.
That broader model makes it possible to distinguish a temporary busy season from a structural problem—and to decide whether the answer is boundaries, delegation, recovery, role redesign, expectation changes, deeper psychological work, or some combination.
See a sample Whole-Person ProfileQuestions
What prospective clients usually want to know.
Is burnout coaching just work-life balance?
No. “Balance” can be too vague to be useful. The work identifies specific sources of load, the patterns that keep them in place, and the changes most likely to restore capacity without pretending every season should be evenly balanced.
Do I have to reduce ambition?
No. The objective is sustainable effectiveness, not lower aspiration. Sometimes the highest-leverage change is doing less; other times it is delegating better, recovering differently, addressing a relationship pattern, or changing how responsibility is carried.
What if burnout is actually depression or another clinical concern?
Coaching and counseling are kept distinct. If symptoms indicate a clinical or medical issue, appropriate treatment should take priority or occur alongside separate coaching when appropriate.
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