Kate Stitham

Your board isn't broken. It's producing exactly the outcomes its structure was built to produce.

Most managers walk into employee conversations already knowing what they're going to do. The problem is it's often not what the employee actually needed. The LISTEN model helps leaders ask the right question first.

As the economy goes through turbulent times and businesses struggle with transitions, downsizing, new hires, and organizational restructuring, this culture of overwork can go into overdrive. The moral economy of overwork isn’t just a personal failing or individual burnout story. It’s a systemic model that equates self-sacrifice with value and busyness with success. But this model isn’t sustainable and will ultimately lead to far greater challenges down the line.