Navigating Burnout: Challenges and Strategies for Teams and Technical Leaders

When addressing burnout, most conversations focus on external solutions: better time management, more vacation days, or workplace perks. However, true burnout prevention requires something deeper: personal leadership and internal clarity. This talk explores how burnout is fundamentally a leadership challenge that requires addressing our internal drivers rather than just external symptoms.

In addition, we are going to look at Technical leadership roles that come with unique pressures that can lead to burnout—a state of chronic stress resulting in physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy. Implementing burnout prevention isn’t a one-time effort but an ongoing process of assessment, intervention, and refinement. Technical leaders should begin with honest self-assessment of current burnout indicators and energy management practices. Small, consistent changes often prove more effective than dramatic overhauls, so leaders should identify high-impact interventions they can realistically maintain.

Presenters:
Armen Arustamov
Founder & CEO of Got it Life, a Silicon Valley Mental Health App for corporate leaders and employees. Former pro tennis player and psychologist. He brings mental techniques from elite sports to boost health and productivity in corporate life. His mission is to use AI to enhance—rather than replace—humanity, strengthening natural human mental resilience through advanced technologies.

Jackie Coley, Ph.D.
Jackie Coley is a Mental Fitness Coach and Career Strategist who empowers smart, ambitious professionals to create more freedom, autonomy, and impact in their careers and lives. A former scientist with a PhD in Biomedical Science from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jackie helps clients break free from procrastination, indecision, and overthinking by teaching them to reframe their thinking to work for them rather than against them, allowing them to become the self-leaders who know what they want and are willing to take bold action to get it.