Prevent burnout with neuroscience-based tools, WHS-aligned practices, and leadership habits that drive performance and care.
Overview
Burnout isn’t a weakness — it’s a system outcome. Behind every statistic lies a story of workload pressure, limited control, and cultural strain.
This new TWC Playbook: From Burnout to Breakthrough reframes burnout from a personal failing to a leadership and organisational challenge. It equips leaders with practical, evidence-based tools to identify, prevent and reverse burnout — while meeting evolving WHS psychosocial obligations.
You’ll learn how to turn awareness into action — building workplaces where people can thrive, not just survive.
Why Burnout Prevention Matters
The numbers are confronting:
🧠 46% of employees report feeling burned out.
⚠️ 60% of underperformance is linked directly to burnout.
💰 Burnout and stress-related absenteeism cost Australia ~$14 billion annually.
🔁 40% of resignations are burnout-related.
Burnout is preventable — but it requires systemic solutions. This playbook helps leaders shift from reaction to prevention through leader-led resilience, fair work design, and psychologically safe cultures.
What You’ll Learn
In just 10 minutes, you’ll gain:
✅ A clear understanding of what burnout really is — and isn’t.
✅ The top organisational drivers of burnout (workload, culture, control, support, values).
✅ Leadership behaviours that buffer against stress and protect wellbeing. ✅ A practical framework linking burnout prevention to WHS compliance. ✅ Access to self-assessment and reflection tools for leaders and teams.
✅ A model to connect prevention with transformational leadership practices.
Inside the Playbook
📊 Data-Driven Insights: The cost, prevalence and performance impact of burnout across Australian workplaces.
🔎 The Five Burnout Drivers: Workload, culture, control, support and moral distress — with targeted leader actions for each.
💬 Leadership Behaviours Table: Align leader habits with measurable outcomes.
🧩 Self-Assessment Tools: Burnout Self-Check, Motivation to Change Assessment, and Meaning & Purpose Survey.
🧠 4 I’s Leadership Framework: How transformational leadership mitigates psychosocial risk.
⚙️ WHS Duty of Care Guide: Understand obligations for PCBUs, managers, MHFAiders and workers.
Who It’s For
HR & WHS Leaders: Embed prevention into policies, systems and governance.
Executives & Founders: Balance wellbeing with performance and retention.
People Leaders & Managers: Recognise early signs, lead safely, and support teams through change.
Next Steps
💬 Awareness: Share the playbook with your team and discuss the insights.
🧠 Assessment: Complete the self-checks to spot burnout risks early.
⚡ Action: Partner with TWC for leader labs, MHFA training, and organisational change consulting.
About TWC
At Thomas Walker Consulting (TWC), we combine training, coaching psychology and counselling to advance mental health and leadership resilience. We partner with organisations to translate research into action — creating psychologically safe, high-performing, human-centred workplaces.
📞 0437 272 142 🌐 www.thomaswalkerconsulting.com.au