Women don’t burn out faster than men. Yet women leaders consistently report higher rates of burnout. That contradiction tells us something important, and not just about gender. In her book on Complex Failure, The Right Kind of Wrong, Amy Edmonson talks about a similarly confusing data set. In her research with surgical teams, she found that teams who reported high levels of psychological safety, also reported significantly more errors. Not the positive correlation you would expect when...

Over the past year, I have been researching, questioning and shaping our TREE model—Trust, Resilience, Equity and Empathy—for sustainable leadership . What began as curiosity gradually became conviction: that leadership, change and culture need a fundamentally different approach if organisations are to thrive in today’s world. Many leadership models still reflect outdated assumptions. They were designed for a time when change was linear rather than complex, hierarchies were rigid, and...

Burnout is not a wellbeing issue. It's a performance, cost, and governance issue. For years, burnout has been discussed as an employee wellbeing concern — important, but often parked in HR or handled with optional benefits. That framing no longer holds. Going into 2026, burnout in the UK workforce represents a material business risk . It is already driving lost capacity, rising absence, higher turnover, lower quality, and avoidable cost — and the conditions that cause it are intensifying,...