Transforming burnout from breakdown to break through
Coaching lecture series "Coaching - Research and Practice"
Tim Casserley
Organisations are becoming increasingly demanding; work more consuming and absorptive than ever before. The recession is magnifying this trend. Those who have kept their jobs are being asked to take on more. In particular, the organisation’s expectations of its ‘high potential’ leaders have increased substantially. Inevitably, the possibility of these leaders ‘losing the plot’ in the un-reflected pursuit of performance and ambition has never been more real. Recent events have shown us what happens when an organisation’s brightest and best go down this road.
Based on the research behind his recent book, Tim will discuss the causes of burnout and derailment among high potential leaders, and how to use personal crisis as a coaching opportunity for transformational learning and the development of sustainable leadership.
- Cover feature article from People Management magazine, August 12th 2010 on Sustainable Leadership
- Towards Sustainable Leadership – coaching movie, produced by Gordon Kennedy
Further information
Reinhard Stelter, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Copenhagen
The lecture is part of a series of lectures titled "Coaching - research and practice", which is sponsored by the EMCC. The lecture series aims to build a bridge between research and praxis in coaching and at the same time embed coaching practices in the research discourse. The intention is to hear from researchers, who explore coaching from a business, health or sports related angle. The Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Copenhagen was established in order to launch and coordinate interdisciplinary research, education and dissemination in coaching.