What’s Burning Beneath Your Bottom Line? How a 15-Minute Assessment Could Save You $$$$
The Cost of What You Can’t See
What if your greatest leadership risk isn’t poor performance, but unseen burnout?
In 2025, leaders are navigating rising expectations, shrinking teams, and a relentless pace. The pressure to perform is high, but the tools to manage internal strain are still catching up. Burnout is no longer just a personal issue. It’s a bottom-line business risk that shows up in turnover, disengagement, lost productivity, and culture erosion.
The Leadership Risk Hiding in Plain Sight
Being an effective leader in 2025 isn’t just about driving performance; it’s about protecting it. Burnout is a slow leak in performance capacity, not just a wellness issue. And the real challenge? You can’t fix what you can’t see.
So, how do you identify burnout risk before a high-performing leader quietly walks out the door?
Enter the Mini-Capacity Assessment: Fast, Insightful, Actionable
At Latitude, we’ve created a tool to help you measure what’s been invisible until now: the Mini-Capacity Assessment. It’s a short quiz taken by individual leaders, followed by a strategic debrief with executive leadership consultant and CEO, Elena Joy Thurston.
This tool measures five leadership capacities directly tied to burnout risk. It’s flexible enough to assess:
- Individual executives
- Managers with direct reports
- Entire leadership teams
Benefits include:
- Pinpointing hidden stressors
- Identifying where to invest for the biggest impact
- Preventing burnout before it becomes performance loss
Why It Matters: The Financial Cost of Burnout
Burnout = Turnover
- Burnout contributes to 15–20% of total payroll in voluntary turnover.
- Replacing an employee costs 0.5 to 2x their annual salary.
Burnout = Lost Productivity
- Disengaged employees cost $3,400 for every $10K of salary.
- Mental health-related absences cost U.S. companies $47.6 billion/year.
Burnout = Culture Risk
- 95% of HR leaders say burnout is hurting retention.
- 72% of employees say burnout affects performance.
- Over 50% of managers feel more burned out than their teams.
Burnout = Strategic Blind Spots
- Burnout often hits top performers the hardest, and they often don’t speak up until it’s too late.
Here is the big kicker:
Organizations that invest in mental well-being strategies see a 13% increase in productivity.
Targeted burnout mitigation isn’t a feel-good initiative—it’s a strategic investment that protects your people and your profits. (sources for all of this information can be found here)
What It Looks Like: A Glimpse Inside the Assessment
The Mini-Capacity Assessment is short but revealing. In just a few questions, leaders reflect on five burnout risk areas:
- Emotional Capacity: Are your leaders bottling stress or processing it in real time?
- Relational Capacity: Are your teams working in connection or isolation?
- Cognitive Capacity: Is decision fatigue draining innovation?
- Time & Energy Capacity: Are people sprinting on empty?
- Systemic Support: Are your systems fueling your team, or failing them?
Each section offers a clear snapshot of burnout risk and an immediate opportunity for improvement.
Want to Protect Your People and Your Margins?
Let’s talk. Whether you’re planning your next leadership retreat or looking to proactively support your team, this 15-minute tool could change everything.
If you’re searching for a leadership keynote speaker in Arizona who can deliver insight *and* action, or a top leadership speaker in Tucson who understands capacity at a cellular level, Elena Joy is ready. Because sometimes, the best executive leadership speaker in Arizona isn’t the one who fires people up.
It’s the one who helps them breathe again.