what if you could experience success without struggle?
When we consider burnout as the enemy of success, and the consequence of a series of self betrayals, it sounds a lot more serious than a 60 hour work week, chasing the next promotion, or sacrificing your Sunday afternoon to prepare for the week.
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You might have seen Kelley on:
It’s Time To End The Tradeoffs, And Take Back Your Power.
The truth is, you’ve been burnt. By your inherited story of mainstream struggle, by your lack of boundaries, and maybe even by the organization you’ve been loyal to.
Instead, ‘working hours’ becomes a suggestion rather than a rule. You’re pulling the weight of 5 people and receiving the recognition of one. You wanted to join the think tank, and now it feels more like an assembly line.
Taught to place your career above all else, you hit the last mark of societal success, the final rung of the ladder to a so-called great life.
What if success didn’t have to include struggle?
And it doesn’t have to be that way.
If you feel like every opportunity to move up in your career makes your Quality Of Life go down, you’re not alone.
You want to make an impact in your field, but aren’t sure how to accomplish anything without sacrificing your personal life (or mental health).
You're pulling the weight of five people and receiving recognition for one. You don’t know how to speak up and set boundaries for responsibility expectations.
You're dreading Monday morning, even though it’s the coveted dream job you worked so hard for for.
Professionals turn to Kelley when
I help professionals redefine success, recover from or avoid burnout, and achieve in ways that make them feel alive.
Changing the burnout narrative means opting out of everything you’ve been led to believe about balance.
Group Therapy Program at Clinton Correctional Facility
Created a behavioral modification program for men who were labeled the worst behaved inmates in the state, from scratch and without budget.
This program had the highest reduction in behavior violations across the state, reducing behavior violations by 80%. Inmates who had hundreds of violations and were offending daily went 6 months in the program without a violation.
Developed prevention programming for overseas military bases
We created delivery model for sexual assault prevention programs that took the base from 4% to 96% compliant with Air Force standards within 6 months.
We worked with the CDC to create novel curriculum on violence prevention (sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking and bullying).
We developed a curriculum (leadernomics for prevention) to teach fellow violence preventionists how to create impactful and results driven programming.
This work was called a benchmark in the Air Force by the Pentagon.
Premier government workplace violence prevention and response program
Over the course of 4 years, we created a program from scratch that garnered praise from Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Whitehouse.
We assisted with the development and creation of a marketing plan for a workplace culture assessment that was benchmarked by National Academies of Science.
We created a Risk mitigation strategy for the reduction of sexual misconduct in the workplace that was called revolutionary by Anita Hill and endorsed by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, and staff from the UN.
Within 4 years, we increased the budget 550% with congressional approval, and increased staff from 1-9 within 3 years.
Impact is possible without exploiting ambition. We’re here to help you build a life that sparks innovation, not another opportunity for you to get burned.
The blame of burnout doesn’t rest squarely on the shoulders of organizations or employees. Dual responsibility will restore our ability to design our own legacy.
By realizing the ways you’ve been betraying yourself, you can opt out of burnout culture, and opt in to success that stokes your flame.
Our three step process and proprietary burnout spectrum help you understand where and when you’ve betrayed yourself, and how to take ownership over your success.
Success without struggle
Dual Responsibility
Impact with Intention
Maintaining:
When organizations and individuals are maintaining, everything is status quo. Habits have been formed. For individuals, the honeymoon phase has worn off.
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
organizational
personal
You're starting to experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
organizational
personal
- You're no longer excited about their work
- You're not optimistic about the future
- People are not at their best
- Boundaries are deteriorating
- Role confusion causes inefficiencies
- Resentment builds
- Lag in productivity and innovation
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
organizational
personal
- Apathy about their jobs
- Quiet quitting
- Gossip; organizing with others and commiserating together
- Working on autopilot; not inspired about work
- Bitterness and not wanting to give the organization their best ideas
- Personal relationships start to suffer
- Work relationships deteriorate due to lack of trust
- Employees feel exhausted all the time - no amount of vacation can make them feel rested
- Employees are numb, resulting in a decrease in critical thinking, and an increase in mistakes
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
At this point, burnout is a crisis and individuals reach a breaking point
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
organizational
personal
Calling out
Not speaking up in meetings
Sharing on public forums about their experience at the org
People are quitting; attrition rate increases
HR is seeing more discrimination and harassment complaints and reasonable accommodation requests
Worry about the org's reputation increases
Competitors are beating you to the punch with innovative solutions
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
organizational
personal
Re-build
Reemerge
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Energize
Engage
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Our three step process and proprietary burnout spectrum help you understand where and when you’ve betrayed yourself, and how to take ownership over your success.
Burning Bright:
The result is that individuals are now Burning Bright — meaning, better than where you started.
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
The Burn Bright Burnout Spectrum
Click through my company's unique spectrum that details the stages of burnout from both organizational and individual perspectives. Understanding this spectrum ensures better workplace well-being and proactive burnout prevention, with insights from our proven methodology.
Maintaining:
When organizations and individuals are maintaining, everything is status quo. Habits have been formed. For individuals, the honeymoon phase has worn off.
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
organizational
personal
Individuals experience self-betrayal; "oh its just this once"
Individuals also experience organizational betrayal, such as their employer over promising and under delivering
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
- Employees are no longer excited about their work
- They're not optimistic about the future
- People are not at their best
- Boundaries are deteriorating
- Role confusion causes inefficiencies
- Resentment builds
- Lag in productivity and innovation
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
- Apathy about their jobs
- Quiet quitting
- Gossip; organizing with others and commiserating together
- Working on autopilot; not inspired about work
- Bitterness and not wanting to give the organization their best ideas
- Personal relationships start to suffer
- Work relationships deteriorate due to lack of trust
- Employees feel exhausted all the time - no amount of vacation can make them feel rested
- Employees are numb, resulting in a decrease in critical thinking, and an increase in mistakes
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
At this point, burnout is a crisis and organizations typically call in support.
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
- Calling out
- Not speaking up in meetings
- Sharing on public forums about their experience at the org
- People are quitting; attrition rate increases
- HR is seeing more discrimination and harassment complaints and reasonable accommodation requests
- Worry about the org's reputation increases
- Competitors are beating you to the punch with innovative solutions
organizational
personal
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Re-build
Reemerge
Energize
Engage
Maintaining
Languishing
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright
Our three step process and proprietary burnout spectrum help you understand where and when you’ve betrayed yourself, and how to take ownership over your success.
Maintaining
Deadly Silence
Burnout Crisis
Burning Bright:
The result is that your organization and its individuals are now Burning Bright — meaning, better than where you started.
Languishing
Burning Bright
Click through my company's unique spectrum that details the stages of burnout from both organizational and individual perspectives. Understanding this spectrum ensures better workplace well-being and proactive burnout prevention, with insights from our proven methodology.
The Burn Bright Burnout Spectrum
about
Kelley is a licensed therapist with masters degrees in both social work and criminal justice, and leads a team of HR professionals, positive psychologists, instructional designers, and expert trainers with a combined 25+ advanced degrees and certifications, and collective 120+ years of professional experience.
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I help you experience success without struggle and self-betrayal; impact without powerlessness; and work without withering away.
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Kelley’s work has been praised by the Pentagon, the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, the UN, Congress, and the Whitehouse. You can invite Kelley to speak on a wide range of topics relating to decreasing burnout and bias, increasing innovation and inclusion, risk mitigation strategies, behavioral modification programming, addressing sexual misconduct, and sexual assault and violence prevention.
Speaking
Kelley’s work has been praised by the Pentagon, the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, the UN, Congress, and the Whitehouse. You can invite Kelley to speak on a wide range of topics relating to decreasing burnout and bias, increasing innovation and inclusion, risk mitigation strategies, behavioral modification programming, addressing sexual misconduct, and sexual assault and violence prevention.
Podcast
It’s time to de-normalize burnout, and build our lives around success that stokes our flames
Alison Miley - Senior Vice President of Communications Services at Notion Strategies
We worked with Kelley on a Fortune 500 C-level leadership offsite event. She took time to deeply understand the audience so she could deliver the most impactful presentation, guide difficult but necessary discussions, and facilitate workshops to help the team evolve their thinking and behaviors. Her approach to inclusive innovation, diversity and belonging was presented in the context of broader corporate goals and strategies, creating the necessary connection between the two for our client. She is truly a powerhouse and is uniquely skilled at moving the needle on helping teams operate with an “inclusive innovation” approach. We could not recommend her enough and look forward to teaming up with her again!
Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at NetApp
I’ve had the privilege of working with Kelley multiple times to develop strategies to drive equity in large tech organizations. She has the keen ability to leverage data and manage the human side of this work to bring forth success. Through her work, I’ve been able to move the needle in a meaningful way. Kelley makes strategy sexy.
Wellbeing Director at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Working with [Burn Bright] has been a great experience. They are superb at translating deep expertise in mental health into an engaging and impactful experience for participants. They took the time to understand our organization’s mission-driven, scientific culture. We were able to create multiple workshops that served our community, and I happily referred them to colleagues at other organizations because of the quality of their work.
Tina Fang - Chief Deputy Colorado at the Office of Public Defenders
Working with Kelley is easy and supportive. She has the connections necessary to help build a plan that incorporates many different layers of a strategy. She is flexible and strives to meet the needs of the organization. So far, we have been able to launch a whole cache of resources and she remains in contact for follow-up help and ideas as needed. I highly recommend her.
