My experience as a practitioner in education and a researcher in leadership has revealed a few key findings:

1. Burnout is a legitimate occupational phenomenon with consequences to one’s physical, emotional, and professional health and efficacy (World Health Organization).

2. Helping professions such as education, healthcare, and pastoral leadership experience burnout consistently for around half of all practitioners (Burnout in Education, Healthcare, and Pastoral Leadership).

3. Burnout has strong positive correlations with subclinical narcissistic tendencies such as self-centeredness and a constant need for validation, which are often antithetical to the missions of helping professions and can lead into a vicious cycle of further occupational burnout (Burnout and Narcissism).

4. Authentic leadership through self-awareness, balanced processing, relational transparency, and an internalized moral perspective can offer a way out of this vicious cycle.

If you are in or represent helping professionals, I would love to come to your site and support you.