The Leadership Capacity Paradox: Building Others' Capacity Without Burning Out Your Own (Burnout Part 3)

You became a leader to create impact, develop others, and drive change. But sometimes it seems like every person you spend time lifting up depletes your capacity. How do you build organizational capacity without depleting your own or creating dependency on you?

For the next few episodes, I will be talking with you about taking a deeper dive in understanding burnout from a perspective I personally don’t hear enough of: the psychosocial drivers of burnout – what we as individuals bring to it, how social conditioning perpetuates it, and how organizational culture impacts it – and what we can do about it. 

In this episode we're talking about how sometimes the very strengths that make you an effective leader can become the source of your burnout. Those caretaking instincts that make you a great people developer? They can directly conflict with your strategic leadership responsibilities! This isPart 3 of my Bonus 4-part Burnout series. 

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References:

The Anti-Burnout Leadership Lab details: https://gotowerscope.com/2025fellowship

Register: https://luma.com/owie0t8g

YouTube video of this episode: https://youtu.be/XLkQo876yOU