Event Details

North Star SHRM will be hosting a virtual education session titled: 

Burnout Isn’t a Resilience Problem: A Capacity-Based Leadership

By Rachel Thieman

This is a virtual presentation via Zoom on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. All North Star SHRM members are invited to attend. There is no cost to attend. 

For the meeting link, log into the North Star SHRM website and click "Virtual Meeting Log-in" under Meetings & Events on the left side.

The target audience for this seminar is HR professionals and business owners.

Session Description:

Burnout is often framed as an individual issue, something employees must manage through self-care, resilience training, or better boundaries. Yet many organizations continue to invest in wellness initiatives while burnout, disengagement, and turnover persist.

In this session, Rachel Thiemann introduces a Capacity-Based Leadership™ lens that helps HR leaders understand burnout as a predictable outcome of sustained capacity strain shaped by leadership behaviors, decision load, role clarity, and organizational systems. Participants will explore why traditional approaches fall short, how burnout shows up differently across roles and teams, and what HR can realistically influence—even within complex organizational constraints. The session offers practical insight HR leaders can use to move from awareness to meaningful action.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Reframe burnout as a capacity challenge influenced by leadership and systems—not simply an individual resilience issue.
2. Identify early indicators of capacity strain at the team and manager level before burnout becomes disengagement or turnover.
3. Understand HR’s strategic role in shaping conditions that protect capacity, even when workload pressures remain high.
4. Recognize practical leverage points where HR and leaders can intervene to support sustainable performance.

Speaker Bio:
Rachel Thiemann is the Founder of Lead Like It Matters™ and a Capacity-Based Leadership™ Strategist who helps organizations address burnout, overwhelm, and disengagement at their root—by focusing on leadership behavior, decision load, and organizational capacity rather than individual resilience alone.
With over two decades of experience in leadership development, workplace well-being, and organizational training, Rachel partners with HR leaders, managers, and teams to translate human sustainability into practical, measurable action. Her work bridges neuroscience, organizational psychology, and real-world leadership constraints, offering frameworks that help organizations reduce burnout.