Leadership burnout: Why organisations need to rethink the systems creating pressure

Author

Carole Gaskell

Founder & CEO

< 1 minute read

16 Oct 2026

In a recent HRZone article, our Founder and CEO, Carole Gaskell, explores the growing challenge of leadership burnout and why organisations must address the conditions creating sustained pressure, rather than relying solely on individual resilience.

She explores:

• Why 77% of business leaders showing signs of exhaustion points to a wider organisational challenge
• How constant pressure, increasing complexity and competing priorities are stretching leadership capacity
• Why burnout is often rooted in how work is structured, prioritised and managed
• The impact of declining leadership capacity on decision making, collaboration, culture and performance
• Why traditional wellbeing initiatives and resilience training cannot address the underlying causes of burnout alone
• How HR can help redesign working environments by creating space for thinking, clarifying priorities and supporting sustainable performance

Read the full article on HRZone: Leaders are burning out: Stop fixing people and start fixing the system