E32 - Change Burnout - Podcast with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr

Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

My guest today is Dr. Jacqueline Kerr; A Behavior Change Scientist, TEDx and Keynote Speaker. 

Dr. Jacqueline is in the top 1% of most cited scientists worldwide who specialises in helping organisations with behavior change or burnout strategies. 

As a burnout survivor herself, Dr. Jacqueline is on a mission to prevent burnout in other working moms and to change the narrative that burnout is an individual problem. 

I am grateful to have Dr. Jacqueline chatting with me today. 

Topics include

1. Dr. Jacqueline’s personal story of burnout
2. What is a change burnout?
3. How to identify symptoms of burnout
4. Consequences of managing change poorly
5. The 12 Stages of burnout
6. The Implementation Science model as a tool to help understand barriers to change
7. Learning Collaboratives 
8. The role of middle management in helping their teams
9. How to unpack resentment in the workplace
10. The benefits of being a change (outsider) contractor
11. Advice to the change practitioners in regards to burnout 

And much more

About Dr. Jacqueline (In her own words)
In 2018, I experienced severe burnout that resulted in me leaving my job as a public health professor. I am in the top 1% of most cited scientists worldwide but being a leader, mom and wife was challenging in the competitive world of medical science research. I was sad to leave a field I was so passionate about; using behavior science to help communities be healthy. I still support researchers writing grants for the National Institutes of Health and other health agencies worldwide.
At first, I blamed myself and felt like a failure. My inner critic was screaming at me 24/7. I started to read about changing my mindset, letting go of authoritarian parenting, and learning my love language. I benefited greatly from coaching. And even did stand up and improv comedy.
But as I read about being a better leader I learned about the maternal wall and the motherhood penalty, that are particularly prevalent in STEMM.
I had not realized I was burned out at the time, but as I learned about the conditions that lead to burnout it hit me that the causes and solutions for burnout are different for women. That burnout and DEI align.
I am now on a mission to prevent burnout in other working moms and to change the narrative that burnout is an individual problem. It is a systemic problem that needs strategic multi level solutions.
As part of my effort to spread this message, I spoke on the TEDx stage: How to stop burnout before it starts. I host the podcast Overcoming working mom burnout & I write and speak regularly about burnout and behavior change.
I can help your organization in several ways:
1) take advantage of all the free resources on my website www.DrJacquelineKerr.com
2) hire me to ignite impactful change in your organization through an engaging keynote about my story, my science and my solutions
3) allow me to provide you with a comprehensive strategic plan for burnout prevention in your employees that aligns with your DEI, wellness, and leadership development goals and provides evidence-based solutions and processes to ensure individual, team and organizational change
4) let me perform a behavioral analysis of your DEI, leadership or wellness programs (internal or external) and provide evidence based behavior strategies to impro

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Ali Juma
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