DIY Anti-Burnout System: TANK + Kaleida
Description
DIY Anti-Burnout System: TANK + Kaleida
Learn how to build your own practical system to tackle burnout, protect your energy, prevent relapse, and sustain your best work in this hands-on online session on 28th July.
For tech leaders, managers, and practitioners working in demanding roles where the work matters, the pressure is real.
Facilitated by Dr Helen Lawson Williams – TANK | Co-hosted by Kaleida
Burnout is rising across many sectors, and the rapid pace of technological change, including AI adoption, is accelerating it.
Many professionals today, especially in tech and knowledge work, are working in environments where expectations are high, the work matters deeply, and the pressure to keep going can feel constant. Over time, this pressure can quietly shift from feeling stretched, to feeling depleted, overwhelmed, or stuck in patterns that are difficult to change.
For tech teams and leaders, there's an added layer: AI is creating new cognitive load, confusing role boundaries, and raising questions about job security and capability. Many are experimenting with AI but don't have the leadership or workflow guardrails to make it useful and safe.
While burnout is often framed as a personal resilience problem, the reality is more complex. To reverse the trend, we need a deeper understanding of where burnout actually comes from, and how to intervene before it takes hold or causes injury.
In this practical and interactive session, you will explore the system that drives burnout and how it shows up in your own work and life. Rather than relying on willpower or waiting for organisational change, you will learn how to identify the elements within your control and begin building your own personalised anti-burnout system.
By the end of the workshop, you won't just understand burnout differently, you will leave with a working prototype of your own anti-burnout system that you can begin applying immediately.
Description
What This Session Will Explore
In this hands-on workshop we will explore:
The four elements of the system that drives burnout
How these elements show up in your own work and life
How to identify patterns that increase burnout risk
Practical ways to interrupt and reverse unhelpful patterns
How to make small, targeted adjustments that are realistic, sustainable and effective
How to set boundaries around AI use to protect energy without blocking progress
Participants will also practise core skills to help them assess whether their adjustments are working and continue improving their system over time.
By the End of This Session You Will Have
A clear understanding of burnout and the system that drives it
Insight into how that system currently operates in your own work and life
Practical tools to spot unhelpful patterns before they escalate
Strategies to make targeted adjustments that protect your energy
A working prototype of your own personalised anti-burnout system
The confidence to keep refining and improving your approach over time
Connection to both TANK and Kaleida for ongoing support with burnout prevention and AI leadership.
Who This Session Is For
This session is designed for anyone who wants to do meaningful work without burning out in the process, especially tech leaders, managers, and practitioners.
It will be particularly valuable for people who:
Care deeply about the work they do and the people they support
Work in tech, product, engineering, or knowledge-heavy roles where responsibility, pressure or complexity is increasing
Are noticing the signs of burnout in themselves or their teams
Want practical tools to protect their energy while continuing to perform well
Are looking for realistic strategies, not just advice to "be more resilient"
Are experimenting with AI but feeling the cognitive load, role confusion, or job security concerns that come with it
Whether you work in tech product companies, government, corporate environments, education, human services, or other professional sectors, this session will help you better understand the system that drives burnout and how to change it, including how to manage AI-related pressure.
No prior knowledge or specialist skills are required.
Event Details
Delivery: Live Online Training
Location: Zoom (Login details will be sent after registration)
Time: 9:30am–11:30pm AEST
Date: Tuesday 28th July 2026
Lineup
Dr Helen Lawson Williams
Dr Helen Lawson Williams holds a PhD in organisational psychology and has spent over 20 years leading teams across consulting, corporate and not-for-profit organisations. With lived experience of burnout, Helen brings both professional expertise and personal insight to this work. She has helped hundreds of people learn how to do their best work while protecting their wellbeing. Helen founded TANK to scale that impact, based on the belief that burnout is preventable, and that the path out of burnout can lead towards flourishing.
Kaleida
Kaleida helps tech leaders and organisations build practical leadership capability that can be applied immediately. We've trained 250+ tech leaders at well-known tech companies and focus on AI-enabled technical leadership, workforce redesign, and sustainable performance — not abstract theory. Kaleida works with mid-market organisations in Australia/NZ to make AI useful, safe, and valuable by building the leadership, workflow, and governance capability to do something about it.
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