Overview

Work has changed faster than most leadership models were built to handle. Leaders are navigating sustained pressure, shrinking capacity, and rising expectations across a multi-generational workforce, while still being asked to deliver results without eroding trust or meaning.

Why Are We Here? helps leaders make sense of what has shifted and what actually matters now, so they can lead with clarity instead of urgency.

In this keynote, Jennifer Moss reframes today’s workplace challenges not as a motivation problem, but as a capacity and clarity problem, showing leaders how to rebuild alignment, energy, and purpose without relying on outdated assumptions or performative solutions.

Grounded in behavioural science and Jennifer’s decade of advisory work with global organizations, this session offers leaders a clear, human-centered way forward.

What Leaders Leave With

• A shared language for understanding burnout, overload, and disengagement without blame or diagnosis
• Clear insight into what different generations are responding to and why
• Practical ways to protect performance while restoring trust and meaning
• Guidance for making better decisions when everything feels urgent and resources are constrained
• A renewed sense of direction for leaders and teams navigating prolonged change

Ideal For

• Executive leadership teams and conferences
• Global town halls and senior off-sites
• Organizations facing change fatigue, disengagement, or cultural strain

Recognition

• Shortlisted for the OWL Award for Best Leadership Book

Overview

Burnout has become a defining risk of modern work.

Persistent uncertainty, sustained pressure, and rising expectations have pushed many teams beyond sustainable capacity. The result is not disengagement or lack of effort, but cognitive overload: reduced focus, increased mistakes, and growing self-doubt among capable, committed people.

Burnout quietly erodes performance, trust, and decision quality long before it becomes visible in metrics.

Combating Burnout helps leaders understand what burnout actually is, why it is so often misdiagnosed as underperformance, and how to restore capacity without lowering standards or sacrificing results.

In this keynote, Jennifer Moss reframes burnout not as a motivation or resilience failure, but as a systemic capacity problem with identifiable causes and practical solutions. Grounded in behavioural science and her global research, including The Burnout Epidemic (Harvard Business Press), this session offers leaders a clear, evidence-based path to rebuilding focus, energy, and sustainable performance.

What Leaders Leave With

• A clear, shared language for identifying burnout without blame or stigma
• Insight into the six root causes of burnout and how they show up at work
• Understanding of the “Underperformance Myth” and why burnout is often misread
• Practical guidance for restoring capacity while maintaining accountability
• Tools for supporting individuals and teams at risk without overcorrecting or disengaging

Ideal For

• Executive leadership teams and conferences
• Organizations facing sustained pressure, complexity, or change fatigue
• Teams experiencing declining focus, rising errors, or silent disengagement

Recognition

• Based on The Burnout Epidemic, published by Harvard Business Press
• Author of Harvard Business Review’s Beyond Burned Out
• Internationally recognized authority on burnout, workplace culture, and performance sustainability