LEADING WITHOUT BURNOUT

MASTERING THE INNER SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE

Feel Like You’re Leading on Empty?

You're not alone. Leading in today’s environment can feel overwhelming.

Constant uncertainty. Competing priorities. Teams stretched thin. Relentless pressure to deliver more with less.

Most leaders think they must choose between driving results and preserving well-being.

But there’s a better way.

Leading Without Burnout shows you how to sustain high performance, clarity, and presence – without sacrificing yourself or your team. Practical. Research-grounded. Proven. Designed for real-world leadership.

Developed and refined over ten years with nearly 1000 leaders at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, John Hancock Financial Services, and other leading organizations (4.8/5 rating).

What Makes This Course Different

This isn't another "just think positive" leadership program. This live, interactive program combines reengineering-related performance systems design frameworks, mindful awareness practices, and proven behavior change strategies tailored to your role. You get practical tools that actually work when you're juggling numerous competing priorities, and your team needs you present and clear-headed.

You'll develop:

  • Deeper self-awareness of your habits, energy patterns, and their impacts

  • More strategic focus on priorities that cuts through the noise to execute what truly matters

  • Better decision-making through more effective inquiry and reflexive thinking

  • Stress and energy management strategies that help you and your team reduce reactivity and sustain mental, emotional, and physical capacity

  • Strengthened connection and influence skills to keep distributed teams positive and productive

  • Grounded leadership presence and compassionate communication that fosters psychological safety, reduces conflict, and makes people feel heard and motivated

  • Daily leadership habits that are realistic, repeatable, and compound into transformational results over time

Outcome: from overextended achiever → calm, grounded, regenerative leader

Why It Works

Immediately actionable. Walk away from each session with tools you'll use that same week. No fluff, no theory you'll never apply.

Time and support to build habits that stick. Each session systematically builds on the previous one, providing you with the time and guidance to rethink and rebuild your leadership system.

Learn with peers who get it. Small learning groups provide experience sharing and support from leaders facing similar challenges.

Tailored to you. You'll create your own sustainable leadership system tailored to your values, priorities, and context with guided Action Plan development.

Built on proven principles. The underlying methodology has consistently helped leaders achieve transformative improvements in their effectiveness and well-being, plus similar gains for their teams.

  • "I’m a stainless-steel cynic. But this course was great — personal, professional, topical, useful, funny, and profound.”

  • “This course points out the nuanced skills and impacts of leadership that other courses do not.”

  • “This class truly made SUCH a difference in my leadership and I can't recommend it enough. By far, the best course I've taken at Harvard.”

  • “I LOVED this course and would recommend it to absolutely everyone. Jeff is a gifted instructor and has so much helpful and wise advice to share. Just having the time to be listened to in such an active manner demonstrates and models the type of leadership behavior I think we're all striving to share with our teams.”

  • "Within one session, I was applying what I had learned in the course in my work. The impacts have already been transformative for me as a leader, for my team, and for my household. And this is only the beginning."

Program Structure

This course gives you the time and support needed to build lasting habits.

  • 7 live online classes. Weekly for the first two weeks, then every other week for the remainder of the course.

  • Weekly practice experiments and reflection exercises. Immediately apply the learning to your leadership context.

  • 5 Peer Learning Group meetings. Held biweekly between classes for experience sharing, personal action plan feedback, and support.

  • 3 Guided Personal Action Plan Submissions. To systematically build, test, and refine your select leadership system of skills and habits.

Optional Add-on: 1:1 Strategic Accelerator

Deepen and accelerate your progress with a private, 60-minute 1:1 strategy session offering personalized guidance on your specific challenges.

This isn't coaching—it's an intensive consultation where we'll:

  • Deep dive into your most pressing leadership challenge

  • Apply course frameworks directly to your situation

  • Develop a customized implementation plan

  • Identify potential obstacles and solutions

Schedule flexibly during or up to a month after the course to maximize relevance to where you are in your development.

  • “My 1:1 with Jeff was unbelievably helpful and meaningful to me. Some of my biggest takeaways from the whole course came in that meeting.”

  • "Jeff is outstanding at this work. It was helpful to have my action plan proposal reflected back to me and to have alternative approaches discussed. It was also just therapeutic, validating, and reassuring to talk to him.”

  • "Jeff was excellent at getting to the heart of what I was thinking about. His suggestions seem to cut through the mess in my mind and give me a sense of clarity. I would often feel, "why hadn't I thought of that"!

  • "This was a fantastic aspect of the course. Jeff is so knowledgeable and was able to provide excellent suggestions."

  • "Extremely helpful to tailor the general learnings of the course to my specific situation."

Who This Course Is For

Leaders who believe high performance shouldn't come at the cost of well-being. You want to drive results effectively without burning out yourself or your team.

Built for high-performing leaders navigating:

  • Constant complexity and uncertainty

  • Personal or organizational change

  • Distributed or rapidly evolving teams

  • High-pressure environments

Program Dates

The first public cohort will be held:

April — June 2026

**Join the waitlist for exact dates and priority enrollment before the public launch.

Tuition

$1295 COURSE ONLY

$1795 COURSE + 1:1 STRATEGIC ACCELERATOR SESSION

Ready to try a different approach to leading and succeeding?

Enrollment will be limited. I encourage you to join the waitlist for priority access before enrollment opens publicly.