Employee Burnout Consulting
We help your teams feel motivated and get back to business
You can tell when burnout enters a room.
Meetings become quiet. People stop speaking up and volunteering their thoughts. Good workers start to check out. People lose their focus, and their performance suffers.
I’ve seen it happen more than once. The good news is, there's a solution.
I’m Jessica D. Winder, Senior HR Executive and Founder of Hidden Gem Career Coaching. I help leaders figure out what’s behind the burnout in their organization and how to turn things around. Together, we will look at workload, communication, and morale to rebuild a balance that lasts.
I've helped some companies cut turnover by up to 25% with my methods.
If you’d like to talk through what’s going on in your team, book a free consultation. Sometimes a short chat is all it takes to spot the next right move.
Why Employee Burnout Consulting Matters
In an increasingly competitive labor market, many companies are struggling with employee retention. This is why it’s essential for a business's success and competitiveness.
What Our Employee Burnout Consultant Does
Here is the process we follow with our clients who want to reduce burnout in their organizations.
1. Investigate and Diagnose the Root Cause of Burnout
The first thing we do is get to know your organization. We check through your ongoing assessments, if you have them, then we perform our own. We help to implement surveys, pulse checks, and internal interviews. This will give us clues as to the source of the burnout.
Sometimes these sources can include:
Work overload or unrealistic expectations
Toxic company culture
Bad management practices
Low growth opportunities
Lack of employee recognition
Insufficient support for well-being
2. Create a Custom Burnout Prevention Plan
Next, we analyze our findings from the investigatory phase. Once we are sure we know why so many of your employees are burned out, we select strategies we think can rectify your problem. These will be tailored to your industry and company.
You can learn more about some of the strategies we use in this blog post.
3. Train Managers to Implement and Maintain Changes
Burnout prevention starts with your front-line managers. It's essential to make sure they are not only trained but also bought in on the goal and purpose of the plan. They will learn how to identify burnout, hold constructive meetings, and become role models for the people they manage.
4. Build Systems for Long-Term Success
Lastly, we ensure that systems for maintaining employee well-being are woven into the fabric of your organization. These changes actually work for reducing burnout and let you get back to business.
There is a growing burnout crisis in the American workforce.
You know that feeling when a whole team seems off?
The energy drops. Deadlines slip. Even the best people start to pull back. A common misconception about burnout is that it's the same as just “being tired.” This is false.
The WHO defines burnout as long-term exhaustion, frustration, and lower performance. You don’t need a report to see it, though; you can feel it.
Recent research has made the following claims about burnout:
Nearly half of U.S. workers feel burned out.
Employees in a state of burnout are far more likely to quit, call in sick, or stop caring about their work.
Burnout leads to behaviors such as absenteeism, presenteeism, and healthcare claims, which can become financial costs to employers.
How Burnout Impacts Organizations
Reduced productivity and work quality
When someone is burned out, they are more likely to make mistakes, turn in work late, and exhibit less creativity. Burnout is also contagious in that when a burned-out employee isn't performing, other workers often need to take their work on, which increases their chance of becoming burned out too.
More missed days
Some workers call out sick more. Others show up but aren’t really there. Productivity falls either way.
Turnover climbs
Replacing a skilled worker isn’t cheap. It can cost nearly twice their annual pay, not to mention the loss of know-how and client trust that walks out the door with them.
My Proven Framework for Burnout Consulting
Step 1 - Assess: Gather data (quantitative and qualitative) from employees through surveys and interviews.
Step 2 - Analyze: Identify key drivers of employee stress and systemic obstacles to change.
Step 3 - Implement: Design and roll out a custom burnout prevention roadmap.
Step 4 - Measure: Track progress through turnover rates, engagement scores, other wellness indicators, and surveys.
This is how we make sure the actions we prescribe not only align with your business goals but are provable with hard data.
Get Started with an Employee Burnout Consultant
Contact us for a Free Consultation today.
If you want to improve employee retention and morale, get in touch with our team today.
We can help minimize turnover and improve employee satisfaction.
Areas of Core Focus
Here are some of the specific areas of your company we will examine and improve to help solve your burnout problem.
Organizational Culture & Leadership Alignment
Our team will determine how conducive the environment you provide your employees is to burnout.
Some may roll their eyes at these “buzzwords,” but companies need inclusive environments to make their people feel safe and to foster trust. This is what works, and there is a lot of data to prove it.
Workload Sustainability & Workforce Planning
We try and examine if people are being overworked. Our team will then try and implement systems that are both fair and transparent for workload distribution.
It's important to understand that when companies have a sustainable, long-term way of getting things done, it's simply more effective than the old-fashioned idea of forcing every last drop of energy from your people.
Employee Health, Wellness, and Resilience
If your people are constantly overwhelmed, stressed, and can't address personal care goals like fitness and nutrition, or indulge in occasional PTO days without fully unplugging, they will become resentful.
In a world where people have lots of options for where and how they work, it's important that you provide a better environment for your employees than your competitors do. This is why we help implement programs like flexible work arrangements, manager training, employee assistance programs, and peer support networks.
Feedback Loops & Continuous Listening
Data is so important, especially when it shows what you don't want to hear. It's also important to make sure employees know that they can provide feedback and that they will be heard. Regular pulse surveys and anonymous feedback mechanisms ensure employees feel heard and that progress is continuously measured.
Industry-Tailored Burnout Strategies
Some industries have common problems that cause burnout, which we see all the time.
Here are some examples:
Healthcare: Long shifts and emotional exhaustion are common. Usual solutions to this are scheduling reform and psychological safety training.
Technology: Rapid growth and demands associated with innovation happen too frequently. These can usually be solved with flexible work arrangements and opportunities for personal growth.
Retail & Hospitality: Long hours, poor management, and monotony can drive these workers crazy. A lot of this can be solved with improved structure, recognition programs, and extra management training.
Professional Services: Employees can fall into an “always-on” culture. Implementing strict boundaries, improving workflow automation, and results-based performance measures can help.
Here are some of the industries we have done work in:
Tech and Software
Retail
Biohazard Cleaning
Construction
Startups
Human Resources
Legal
Healthcare
Meet Jessica D. Winder - Employee Retention Consultant
Jessica D. Winder is a Senior Vice President of HR and Founder of the consultancy Hidden Gem Career Coaching.
Jessica has spent over a decade helping organizations enhance engagement, reduce turnover, and build resilient cultures.
Jessica holds advanced certifications, including:
Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)
Trauma-Informed Workplace Certification
Employing Abilities at Work Certification
One of Jessica’s specialties is improving employee retention and lowering burnout in organizations. She is very data-driven and excels at working with both employees and executives.
Benefits of Working with a Burnout Consultant
These are some of the true goals of working with Jessica to lower burnout in your organization:
Reduce absenteeism and turnover
Improve morale and engagement
Enhance productivity and innovation
Build a reputation for employee well-being and care
Strengthen leadership confidence and communication
Clients who invest in burnout prevention often see improvements across retention, collaboration, and overall performance within months.
Case Study
Refine Labs Case Study
At Refine Labs, Jessica Winder implemented a leadership development program that increased internal promotions by 40%. She also introduced a minimum salary, which helped cut turnover by 25%.
Here are the techniques she used and the tasks she undertook to help this happen.
Our Proven Employee Retention Strategy Framework
If you are having problems with burnout in your organization, don't let it fester. Remember, burnout is contagious between employees, so act now before it gets even worse.
Our tailored consulting approach helps you identify the issues, create an action plan, and implement systems that support sustainable growth.
Schedule a Free Consultation today and learn how your organization can prevent burnout, boost engagement, and empower every employee to thrive.