Over the past two years, HRA members have been describing high levels of work-related stress due to changing federal grants policies, an increase in applications for non-profit funding, the spread of scientific misinformation, and other factors. This session will define stress and burnout, describe the impact stress has on the brain and body, and interactively teach evidence-based ways to regulate stress. Participants will learn to recognize stress, identify burnout, and create a personalized action plan for managing stress.

Speaker:

Andrew O’Brien, MBA, PCC, NBC-HWC, SHRM-SCP – The Mindblowing Coach 

Andrew O’Brien is a burnout prevention coach, speaker, and consultant who helps professionals and organizations break the burnout cycle—so they can succeed without the suffering. After 20+ years in corporate HR and multiple rounds of burnout, he learned firsthand that burnout isn’t inevitable—it’s preventable. In 2021, he made a decision: this last burnout would be his last. He studied the neuroscience of stress, did the deep inner work to reconnect with his own inner compass, and now helps others do the same—blending stress science with lived experience so people build genuinely aligned, sustainable ways of working.