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Being a leader can be isolating. You're expected to handle everything. Keep a positive outlook. Stay in control. But what happens when burnout hits? Your well-being and leadership prowess may depend on spotting its signs and, crucially, knowing when you really do need support from a burnout coach—not easy with so much vying for your attention. But your team needs you at your best..

For leaders, work-life balance professional coaching means looking first at how you are leading. Have you accumulated toxic habits? Is your “operating model” out of date? Is the way you are managing time appropriate for a leader of your level … or are you still acting as if you were at a lower level? What are the hidden beliefs that constrain your effectiveness and your ability to enjoy your life and your work? Take our "work life balance audit" here ...

If you, as a leader, are bold enough to force your team to come into the office for in-person meetings—requiring them to get out of their sweatpants, organize child care, brave the weather, and suffer the commute—you better make sure those aren’t bad meetings. So why are you allowing them to bring their laptops?

At the beginning of COVID, several of my coaching clients began reporting a strange problem: they were missing executive travel—in particular, flying business class.These clients—senior executives and management consultants—confessed this to me only sheepishly, as they knew it was a first-world problem, particularly in the time of COVID.