Leadership Training

Lead Your Organization Out of Burnout

Reduce turnover, protect leadership capacity, and give your leaders the tools to sustain their own performance and keep their teams producing.

When workloads are high and the pressure is on, leaders start absorbing more than they can recover from. Performance problems follow: turnover, disengagement, decisions that don't get made. They rarely get traced back to the right cause. This session gives them the tools to interrupt the cycle.

Who It's For

Built for Organizations Who Understand that Burnout Is a Leadership Problem That Can be Fixed

This session is designed for HR leaders and executive teams who need their leaders performing at full capacity through high-demand periods.

This is the right fit if your organization is dealing with:

  • Leaders who are absorbing more than they can recover from
  • Absenteeism, disengagement, or voluntary turnover among high performers
  • A leadership team that is technically strong but depleted
  • A wellness initiative that needs to go beyond a lunch-and-learn
  • HR teams that need to demonstrate ROI from leadership development investment

The Outcome

Leaders leave this day knowing their own stress response, practical tools for protecting their capacity, and a concrete action plan they execute the next day.

The Problem

Burnout Spreads Through Your Leadership Bench

Burnout is what happens when demand consistently outpaces recovery. Leaders lose capacity, disengage, and their performance declines.

When your leaders burn out, the effect does not stay contained. Leadership burnout directly predicts burnout rates among direct reports. A depleted leader produces a depleted team.

The organizational consequences show up before anyone uses the word burnout:

  • Decision-making slows as leaders lose the cognitive capacity to handle complexity
  • High performers start disengaging or leaving
  • Absenteeism and disengagement rise
  • Recruitment and onboarding costs spike
  • Leaders absorb more load, accelerating the cycle
The Cost of Inaction

What Doing Nothing Costs You

82%

of C-suite executives report experiencing burnout.

Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2022; DDI Global Leadership Forecast, 2021

$20k–$60k

in recruitment, onboarding, and lost productivity for a single voluntary leader departure.

Society for Human Resource Management, 2022

70%

of the variance in team engagement is attributable to the leader. Disengaged teams cost organizations roughly $3,400 per $10,000 in salary in lost productivity.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace

When leaders burn out, their teams follow. The cost of inaction is not one burnout. It is a cascade. Against these numbers, a $10,000 investment in equipping your leadership bench to recognize and interrupt burnout is not an expense. It is risk mitigation with a calculable return.

The Gap

Wellness Programs Tell Leaders What to Do. They Don't Help Leaders Actually Do It.

Most workplace wellness programs cover what burnout is, why it matters, and what healthy habits look like.

The gap is execution under stress: doing it consistently, under pressure, when conditions are hardest.

Closing that gap requires understanding the science of behavior change:

  • 1
    Why leaders default to depleting behaviors
  • 2
    How stress impairs judgment
  • 3
    Skills that hold up under real-world pressure
The Approach

Evidence-Based Behavior Change for Your Leadership Challenges

This session draws on Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley's 20 years of expertise to address the behavioral realities that standard wellness training ignores: why leaders default to depletion when the costs are obvious, why stress overrides good intentions and blocks behavior change, and what actually shifts sustainable habits under pressure.

The session builds four core competencies:

1

Understanding Your Stress Response

The neuroscience of the stress response: how the brain narrows decision-making and overrides good intentions. Leaders develop a personalized stress monitoring system. They leave knowing their own early warning signals and the specific conditions that deplete them.

2

Battery Management: Protecting and Restoring Capacity

Why some activities restore energy and others drain it, and why the answer is different for every leader. Leaders identify their personal recharging behaviors, audit how they spend their capacity, and build an action plan for maintaining their energy.

3

The Science of Sustainable Habits

An evidence-based system for building habits that hold: realistic goal-setting, setback protocols, and tracking designed for high-pressure environments.

4

Leading Burnout at the Team Level

Leaders audit their team environment against the evidence-based causes of burnout and leave with a prioritized action plan.

Every session is tailored. Dr. Dayna will consult with you before the event to understand the specific pressures your leaders are navigating and build case studies and exercises from that context.

The Transformation

What Changes After the Day

Before the Session

  • Leaders are absorbing more and recovering less
  • Teams are missing deadlines and producing below their demonstrated capacity
  • HR is managing escalations that trace back to depleted leadership
  • Wellness initiatives have produced awareness but not behavior change
  • Leaders are reluctant to signal that they are struggling

During the Day Your Leaders Will

  • Map their own stress response and identify their personal early warning signals
  • Audit how they are currently spending and restoring their capacity
  • Build a personalized recharging plan based on their schedule and role demands
  • Apply behavior change skills to specific habits they have been unable to sustain
  • Build a team burnout audit and action plan based on their group's actual conditions

Your leaders leave having done the work, not having heard about it.

After the Session, Your Leaders Will

  • Avoid performance problems by recognizing the early signs of their own burnout
  • Have a personalized plan for managing their energy: what to protect, delegate and stop
  • Know how to apply the behavior change framework to any performance habit
  • Have a prioritized plan for addressing the organizational conditions driving burnout in their team, ready to implement
  • Be ready to create a culture of wellness that protects all your employees
  • Return to their teams with an actionable plan and the skills to model sustainable performance for their direct reports

Your organization gets fewer escalations to HR, reduced voluntary turnover in your leadership bench, and a leadership team with the capacity to sustain performance through high-demand periods.

Client Success

Impact That Speaks for Itself

"One of the best programs I have ever taken"

"Extremely valuable, thoughtfully provided content. Highly recommend to all of my colleagues."

"I can not emphasize enough how great I found this workshop. It has impacted both my personal and professional life in profound ways."

The Details

What the Session Includes

  • Pre-event consultation call to tailor content to your specific organizational context and current pressures
  • Full-day session (6–7 hours) delivered in person or virtually, for leadership teams of 15–50 participants
  • Custom case studies and role-play scenarios built from your organization's actual situation
  • Behavior change frameworks and leader reference tools participants take with them
  • 30-day post-session debrief call to review implementation progress, address challenges, and sustain momentum
  • Digital resource toolkit for participants to reference after the session

Why Dr. Dayna

Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is a Registered Psychologist with 20 years of applied experience spanning clinical, health, and organizational settings. She is a recognized international expert and spent nearly 15 years working inside complex, high-stakes healthcare institutions.

Director of the Psychological Health and Safety Lab at Saint Mary's University and former Director of the Behaviour Change Institute at Dalhousie University. 60 peer-reviewed publications, 155+ scholarly presentations, and faculty positions at Dalhousie University and Saint Mary's University.

She is the author of Healthy Habits Suck and co-founder of the Dr. Dayna app. Featured in the Globe and Mail, Psychology Today, CTV, CBC, and Real Simple.

She has worked with national organizations including the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Standards Association, and the Canadian Armed Forces.

Investment

Full-Day Leadership Workshop

$9,997

Starting price, plus travel expenses for in-person delivery

One voluntary leadership departure costs your organization an estimated $20,000–$60,000 in recruitment and onboarding alone. One day invested in giving your leaders the tools to sustain their own performance is a hedge against a cost you're already paying.

Personalized executive coaching to reach 20 leaders individually would exceed $25,000. This session delivers the same behavior change at scale, in a single day.

Custom pricing available for multi-day engagements, recurring programs, virtual delivery, and large-audience formats. Request a proposal for specifics.

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the content customized to our organization?

Yes, always. The pre-event consultation is where Dr. Dayna learns the specific pressures your leaders are navigating, the seniority mix of your audience, and the outcomes you need. Case studies and exercises are built from your context.

Is this a keynote or a workshop?

It's a full-day workshop where participants spend meaningful time practicing skills.

Can it be adapted for different seniority levels?

Yes. The session works well for senior leadership teams, middle management cohorts, and mixed-level audiences. The pre-event consultation determines the right frame and exercises for your group.

What industries is it best suited for?

Dr. Dayna has delivered to healthcare, government, professional services, finance, education, non-profit, and manufacturing organizations. Burnout is not industry-specific. The customization makes the session specific to your context.

What does the planning process look like?

You'll have a pre-event call with Dr. Dayna to brief her on your organization's situation, audience, and goals. She handles content development from there. You can expect a professional planning process that doesn't create extra work for your team.

What is the cancellation and rescheduling policy?

Policies are confirmed in the service agreement. In general, cancellations with sufficient notice can be rescheduled without penalty. Full details are provided during the proposal stage.

Can I get a session for my team?

Yes. There is a parallel offering designed for front-line teams that covers the same core tools from the employee perspective. It's a natural next step for organizations that want leadership and team layers aligned on how to sustain performance together.

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During this call Dr. Dayna will learn your current challenges, the seniority mix of your audience, and the outcomes you need.

After the call Dr. Dayna will provide you a proposal tailored to your specific organizational context and current challenges.

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