Episode 38: Battling Burnout and Creating Sustainable Performance with Shelly Meadows
56 minutes
Shelly is a Certified Human Resources Professional, a Certified Psychological Health & Safety Advisor holds an MBA, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant who believes in the importance of healthy, safe, and productive work environments as both a social and business imperative. She has over two decades of experience in the professional services environment, where she rose to the executive level as a Director. Shelly has a breadth of experience, in regulatory compliance and risk management with extensive experience developing, leading, and facilitating national and local training programs in a professional setting.
After a bout of burnout that developed over several years and required 18 months of recovery, Shelly left her Director role and founded Navigation Consulting & Training to pursue her passion for speaking, teaching, facilitating, and consulting and leverages her professional experience to create a positive and meaningful impact in the organizations she works with.
As a “Recovering Type A,” Shelly intimately understands burnout and the organizational and personal elements that contribute to it.
“I say recovering Type A because I'll probably always be a Type A. It's just trying to be a little more mindful . . . So now it's about taking on work when I know I have time to do the work, it's taking on work that I love doing and that I enjoy; it’s not doing things that I don't enjoy doing, and outsourcing where I don't like doing them. But trying to remind myself to take the downtime and find the escape that actually does allow me the chance to unplug my brain. Some days, I'm better at it than others. Some days, quite frankly, I suck at it. And I just go back to being Type A Shelly. But, you know, you just keep plugging along and you hope that every day you get better. “
Shelly emphasizes that strong leadership is essential in striking the right tone from the top in any successful organization that wants to drive productivity while fostering a healthy work environment. She understands the importance of recovery but also gets that discussions about self-care in the corporate setting may not get you very far unless self-care is framed as performance optimization.
Shelly is engaging, honest, and authentic. In this episode, we talk about burnout, leadership, resilience, culture, courage, performance, and how these seemingly unrelated concepts are deeply intertwined. Please enjoy our conversation with Shelly Meadows.
To learn more and to connect with Shelly, please visit Navigation Consulting and Training or drop her a note via email.
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