If you lead people right now, you’re watching them burn out. Many knowledge workers report burnout. 50%+ believe AI at work will make it worse. The pressure to deliver is constant. AI is reshaping workflows, hybrid teams are testing trust, transformation never ends. You’ve tried better time management. You’ve sent people to wellbeing workshops. Nothing’s working because you’re solving the wrong problem. Come to this session if you’re ready to fix the environment, not the people.
The Problem: Overloaded days and complex problems create fatigue. Shortcuts, biases, blocked thinking, lack of focus, underperformance, that has stuck and an overwhelmed feeling your team can’t shake. This directly reduces individual and team performance. You know it. You see it. But what actually prevents it before it happens?
What You’ll Do: This is a working session. We’ll show you 3 evidence-based actions that create resilient environments, drawn from our work with hundreds of teams across multiple industries. You’ll see a real burnout scenario, understand what a leader actually did / didn’t do when the pressure mounted, and apply these actions to your team’s current situation in peer conversation. You’ll leave knowing when to push and when to care. The balance that separates sustainable performance from collapse.
Come Ready: Bring your team’s actual challenges. We’ll work on them. By the end, you’ll have concrete next steps. Not inspiration, but a plan you can implement immediately. Because culture isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the lever that determines whether your team thrives or breaks under pressure.
I started my career of as a lawyer. I ended up getting involved in large consortium projects to build power stations, where I was responsible for how eveyone collaborated and stuck to the rules of the games.
Today, I support companies handson as an interim employee, leader or consultant and coach to build sustainable performance structures for leaders and teams. I also develop ways of embedding skills training/practice into workflows in current environments where no one has time to learn and grow. That is the reason why I set up Kokoro 7 years ago.
I work in English and German.