Are you a senior leader struggling with executive burnout, an overloaded calendar, and a team that depends on you for everything? You are not alone — and you do not have to walk away from the career you love.
In this episode, Brad Jeavons sits down with Michelle Thomas, a global innovation and mining executive with 27 years of experience across oil and gas, geophysics and the resources industry. Michelle shares the exact steps she took to recover from executive burnout and build a high performance innovation team so strong it kept running without her for an entire month.
What you will learn: How to spot the early warning signs of leadership burnout before it escalates Why your calendar is the key to unlocking leadership performance and team wellbeing How to build meeting rhythms and operating cadence that eliminate chaos and create clarity How to use Leader Standard Work (LSW) and the Week in the Life Of (WILO) to structure your time How the Stop Start Keep framework helps you ruthlessly prioritise high value work Why meaningful delegation is the leadership skill that unlocks team autonomy and growth How the leadership shadow you cast every day shapes team culture and psychological safety How to build a self-sustaining high performance team that thrives without you
Essential listening for: Senior executives and directors experiencing burnout and calendar overload Women in leadership navigating mid to long term career challenges and overwhelm Innovation, technical and operations leaders in complex global organisations HR, organisational development and continuous improvement professionals Leaders in mining, resources, oil and gas and energy sectors
Brad's two key takeaways:
Connecting leadership change to a meaningful personal purpose is what makes it sustainable
A team system that keeps running when the leader is absent is the ultimate measure of great leadership
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