Leah Weiss on Workplace Burnout

Leah Weiss is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and author. She teaches compassionate leadership at the Stanford School of Business and is a principal teacher and founding faculty member of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. In 2019, she co-founded Skylyte, a company that specializes in using the latest neuroscience and behavior change to empower high-performing leaders and managers to prevent burnout for themselves and their teams.

In this episode, Eric and Leah Weiss discuss workplace burnout: the definition, signs, causes of, and treatment for this debilitating condition.

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Leah Weiss and I Discuss Workplace Burnout…

Her story of suffering workplace burnoutThe definition and signs of burnoutThe individual, team, and corporate level causes of burnoutThe difference between burnout and depression or anxietyThe difference between burnout and compassion fatigueThe role of boundaries in compassion and empathyHow to know when you need to change your external circumstancesHow to know when it’s internal work within you that need to doWays to go through the process of life change without blowing everything upTools and questions to use for discernment about elements of change within your lifeThe role and value of other people who you can turn to for support and guidancePaths to make work more meaningful

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Leah’s Company: Skylyte

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