
Most people experience burnout as exhaustion.
Their energy drops. Their thinking feels foggy.
Things that used to feel manageable start to feel heavy.
That exhaustion is real. But it’s not the root of the problem.
In my work, burnout is almost always the result of a prolonged mismatch between the person, the role, and the demands placed on them.
A gap between who someone is, what they need to function well, and how their work and life are actually structured day to day.
When capable, driven people keep overriding themselves to function in environments that no longer fit them, exhaustion is the inevitable outcome.
I see this pattern because I’ve lived it myself, and because I now see it repeatedly in the people and organisations I work with.
This is why rest alone rarely solves burnout. It may relieve symptoms temporarily, but it doesn’t explain why the burnout happened, and it doesn’t prevent it from happening again.
I work with burnout as an ICF-certified coach and speaker.
My work sits at the intersection of burnout, decision-making, and how people and roles actually fit together over time.I work with burnout at two levels:
Individually, supporting people who are depleted, stuck, and under pressure to make high-stakes decisions while their thinking capacity is compromised
Systemically, working with organisations and communities who want to address burnout at its root rather than cycling through recovery without addressing cause
In both contexts, the pattern is the same. Burnout isn’t a failure of resilience.
It’s a signal that something important hasn’t been working as it should for a long time.
I’m an ICF-certified coach, trained with Optimus Coach Academy, and my work focuses on restoring clarity first, then translating insight into grounded, sustainable decisions.

One of the most overlooked impacts of burnout is how deeply it affects thinking.
Many people I work with have already tried stepping back.
They’ve taken time off.
They’ve rested when they could.
They’ve hoped clarity would return once they felt better.
Sometimes it helps in the short term.
But the same questions tend to come back.
What should I do next?
What if I choose wrong?
What if I end up here again?
Burnout doesn’t just drain energy.
It narrows perspective, reduces confidence in judgment, and makes even familiar decisions feel risky.
Without understanding what actually caused the burnout in the first place, people are left guessing their way forward.
And guessing under pressure rarely leads to decisions that hold.
This is as true for individuals as it is for organisations watching the same patterns repeat across teams.
Before I did this work, my life looked good on paper.
I worked in tech. I was good at my job. I was paid well. I lived in London.
I had flexibility, a strong team, and a full social life.
From the outside, nothing looked wrong. Inside, I was steadily burning out in a way I didn’t recognise at the time.
The hardest part wasn’t just the work. It was the decision.
I knew something had to change, but staying felt unbearable and leaving felt terrifying.
I didn’t trust myself to choose well, and time off didn’t give me clarity.
What changed things wasn’t forcing a decision.
It was slowing down enough to understand what had actually caused the burnout.
Once I understood that, decisions stopped feeling random. I didn’t need certainty. I needed clarity.
That experience fundamentally shaped how I work with burnout now.
At its core, my work is about restoring decision authority where burnout has taken it away.
For individuals, that means:
recovering from burnout without rushing into the next mistake
understanding exactly what led to depletion
making clear, grounded decisions about what’s next
choosing paths that fit their energy, values, and strengths, not just their CV
For organisations and communities, it means:
understanding burnout as a systemic issue of role fit, expectations, and sustainability
addressing root causes rather than relying on surface-level wellbeing fixes
supporting sustainable performance without repeated burnout cycles
The aim in both contexts is the same:
clarity that holds over time, and decisions people don’t need to undo.

If you’re here as an individual
If you’re a high-achieving woman in a corporate role who feels depleted, stuck, and under pressure to decide what’s next, you don’t need to push harder or wait for clarity to magically return.
You need space, structure, and support to think clearly again.
This is the focus of Burnout to Blueprint, my burnout recovery and career clarity programme.
If you’re here representing an organisation or community
If you’re looking to address burnout in a way that goes beyond resilience training and surface-level wellness initiatives, I deliver talks, workshops, and facilitated conversations for teams, leadership groups, and communities.
This work is grounded in clarity, decision-making, and creating ways of working that people can actually sustain.