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Leaders Who Last: Redefining Burnout & Reclaiming Joy in 2025 - With special guest Themba Dayton
In our kickoff episode of Leaders Who Last, I sat down with the brilliant and hilarious Themba Dayton—HR disruptor, senior advisor at HUB International, and master of real talk—to explore how burnout is evolving and how leaders can respond with more humanity, honesty, and joy.
Curating Capacity: Build your burnout-free future
What if your team could learn three practical, research-backed burnout prevention skills—in just one hour? That’s exactly what we’re bringing to SHRM of Greater Tucson (SHRM GT) next week in our interactive workshop, Curating Capacity: Build Your Burnout-Free Future. It’s a warm, energizing session designed to help leaders protect their well-being and lead with renewed clarity and resilience. We’re thrilled to support SHRM GT’s members—and we’d love to bring this experience to your group too. Contact us to host this workshop for your HR or leadership organization.
(PART TWO) Employee Resource Groups: A Safe Space for LGBTQ+ People In The Workplace
ERGs are useful for ensuring employees within an organization feel acceptance, camaraderie, and fairness in the workplace. But, for LGBTQ+ persons, many are seeking more than a sense of belonging—they are seeking a sense of safety. ERGs are often those safe spaces that make it possible for employees to feel like they can be their authentic selves at work. Joining an organization’s ERG specifically for the LGBTQ+ community & its allies, helps employees to feel safe, to feel seen, and to feel heard.
(PART ONE) Employee Resource Groups: Why They Are Necessary for Inclusion and Belonging —and Your Company’s Success
When employees possess the confidence that they are safe, and they are armed with the skills to advocate for their wellbeing, they not only feel better —statistically, they perform better.
Pillar Four: Core Values - but make it personal
After 17 years of being a stay-at-home mom in a Mormon heterosexual marriage and 6 months of conversion therapy that nearly ended me, I filed for divorce. As someone who thought she’d know her role “for time and all eternity”, filing that paperwork meant two things: I was completely starting over and I had no idea what I was supposed to do with my life. The only things I was sure of any more were…
The Capstone of Core Values
If as a leader, you do not actively seek out and consider all perspectives in your organization to inform your decisions and collaborate more effectively, then you may need to reflect on how you can expand inclusion in your leadership—and with that, you may also be largely unaware of what makes your organization unique. You may not understand the values or mission—the “why” behind what you do.
Given how crucial core values are to an organization’s success, it makes sense that if we want our diversity and inclusion strategies to be successful, authentic, and sustainable, we should align these strategies with the core values.
Aligning the two ultimately creates safer working environments where everyone is accepted and valued for who they are—and where inclusive leadership can thrive.