Burnout costs the global economy $8.8 trillion a year. Everyone sees it. No one at the top is solving it—until now.

Burnout is no longer just a personal wellness problem—it’s an organizational crisis hiding in plain sight. Now an $8.8 trillion drain on the global economy, it’s quietly eroding performance, innovation, enterprise value and you.

In The Burnout Imperative, CEO, investor, and podcast host Patrice Bonfiglio confronts the conversation leaders know they should be having—but often aren’t. Drawing on original research from The Burnout and Resilience Study, insights from her podcast, The Burnout Club, and years leading in high-performance environments, she exposes the hidden toll burnout takes on organizations and their leaders - and offers a clear framework with practical strategies for identifying its structural drivers and reversing them.

This book is a powerful wake-up call for the leaders with the power to do something about it.

Practical, evidence-based, and unapologetically direct, The Burnout Imperative is burnout’s worst enemy—and a blueprint for the leaders determined to fix it.

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