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Essays on leadership, alignment, and the community behind real work.

Leadership · July 14, 2026 · 5 min

Burnout Is Not a Workload Problem

Most people try to solve burnout by doing less. It rarely works, because the exhaustion was never really about the hours. Here is what is actually draining you, and the question that finds it.

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Essays on leadership, alignment, and the community behind real work.

Burnout Is Not a Workload Problem

Permission Slips: What Leaders Are Still Waiting to Be Told

How to Know When Someone Is Ready to Lead

How to Choose a Cause You Will Still Support in Five Years

When Your Brain Is on Fire: Leading Through a Million Ideas

Why I Never Give One Option

What the Nordic Summer Taught Me About Alignment

How Far in Advance Should You Book a Keynote Speaker?

How to Tell if a Keynote Actually Worked

Named National Partner of the Year by Law Enforcement Against Drugs

Harmony Vallejo Named to the Inner Circle of Excellence

Keynote Speaker vs Workshop Facilitator: Which Does Your Event Need?

How to Prepare Your Team to Get the Most From a Keynote

How Much Does It Cost to Book a Keynote Speaker?

Questions to Ask Before Booking a Leadership Speaker

How to Choose a Keynote Speaker for Your Leadership Event

What The Alignment Code Is, and Who It Is For

What Great Place to Work Certification Actually Means for a Nonprofit Firm

What Mentorship in Nonprofit Leadership Actually Looks Like in Practice

What It Actually Takes to Lead a Nonprofit Firm as a Woman

Welcome to the journal

Steady is the strategy

Women at the head of the table

Mentorship is a return address

The cause before the calendar

The lighthouse philosophy

Great Place to Work, again

Why I stand with Stand for the Silent

Backpacks, pencils, and the first day of school

A proclamation, a toy drive, and a county that said thank you

Named National Partner of the Year by LEAD