Podcast 005: Kelly Wood on Burnout Culture, Leadership Coaching, and Values

In this podcast, we talk with Kelly Wood about the importance of composing your own life, the prevalence of burnout culture, how leaders can take steps to change that, and the role of values for individuals and organizations to thrive. Kelly is a certified life and leadership coach who works with individuals and teams to increase their clarity, create awareness, understand communication and conflict in a deeper way, and create positive, self-driven outcomes. She has a special interest in helping individuals with their inner critics and imposter syndrome, the importance of rest, and focusing on values. Kelly has a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies focused on Organization Coaching, a Graduate Certificate from Royal Roads University in Advanced Coaching Practices, and is a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. She is also an Erickson Certified Life Coach, Neuro-linguistic Programming Master Practitioner, and is certified in Strengths Deployment Inventory and an Emotional Intelligence 2.0 certified facilitator. Kelly has worked with organizations, such as the National Arts Centre, University of Alberta (Edmonton), and Campus Alberta Neuroscience (Calgary). Links from the podcast 🔗 👭 Up With Women (non-profit): https://upwithwomen.org/ 📜 Mary Oliver poem - https://bit.ly/42eyKBv (Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?) 🎧 Spotify: https://spotify.link/NTBgVJIL3yb 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/coachful-coaching-leadership-podcast/id1682682151 💻 Website: https://www.coachfulcoaching.com 📢 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfung2/ 🙏 If you love this show, please leave me a review. Go to RateThisPodcast.com/coachfulcoaching and follow the simple instructions. Chapters 📖 0:00 - Introduction to Kelly Wood 2:57 - Executive Coaches as thinking partners 4:46 - Up With Women 7:00 - What is Life Design Coaching 7:54 - "Jogglers" in life 10:35 - Burnout Culture, Hustle & Grind 12:57 - Born, was busy, Died 13:53 - Burnout is biggest company dysfunction 20:10 - Sources of burnout 22:10 - How leaders can address burnout 24:10 - Three actionable steps 28:22 - Life as a wrangler in the Rockies 30:57 - Values and writing a book 39:40 - Address your Inner Critic through curiosity 44:57 - Advice to leaders 48:30 - Advice to 20 year old Kelly 51:42 - What to pass to next generation 53:10 - Kelly's question to David