On Burnout, with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr

Discovering that you have burnout is not uncommon. Join LLC host Nicole Glenn as she speaks with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr on Burnout. The research behind it, factors leading up to it, and tips on overcoming it are all discussed on this episode. We also dive into the corporate responsibility of companies (that they might not even be aware of) to prevent burnout in the lives of their employees, and how to bring wellness to the forefront of their company mission. Dr. Jacqueline Kerr is a behavior scientist and burnout survivor. She is in the top 1% most cited scientists worldwide and received over $56 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to research health behavior change solutions for individuals and communities. Dr. Kerr left her position as a public health professor in 2018 and now hosts the podcast 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches. She is on a mission to dismantle the causes of burnout, to prevent burnout through comprehensive strategic planning for employee well-being aligned with DEIB, and to create sustainable and impactful organizational change informed by her two decades as a behavior change and implementation scientist and practitioner. Her TEDx talk, “How to stop burnout before it starts”, explains how burnout is a multi-level problem and provides actionable solutions that we can all use to change the social norms around burnout based on behavior change science. Get ready for an amazing show! Watch my TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/9YY0gVnVPoQ