Angela Kingdon, PhD

Based on Angela’s forthcoming book, "Low-Demand Business: How to Build Work That Doesn’t Break You"

High performers are often treated as the people who can handle anything. They are praised for their intensity, speed, loyalty, problem-solving, and ability to keep going when everyone else is overwhelmed. Then, one day, they stop. They burn out, disengage, leave, or quietly become a fraction of who they were at work.

In this timely and practical keynote, Dr. Angela Kingdon helps leaders understand burnout as a design problem, not a personal weakness. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as a CEO, communications expert, psychology researcher, and workplace wellbeing speaker, Angela shows how modern workplace systems overload the very people they most depend on.

Angela gives leaders a new way to spot hidden burnout, reduce unnecessary friction, and create conditions where talented people can sustain high-quality work without sacrificing their health, creativity, or humanity.

ATTENDEES GAIN:

• Awareness of why high performers are often most vulnerable to burnout.
• A practical understanding of burnout as a workplace design issue.
• Insight into how communication, meetings, urgency, and unclear expectations drain talent.
• Strategies to reduce unnecessary demand without lowering standards.
• A framework for building healthier systems where people can do their best work for longer.