Signature Keynote
Burnout by Design™
Reverse-Engineering Burnout for Impact That Lasts.
→ An experiential keynote that reveals the drivers of burnout and offers leaders and teams a shared path to renewed energy, restored trust, and sustainable performance.
Burnout Doesn’t Have to Be the Price of Success.
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We’ve spent decades trying to fix burnout the wrong way.
Wellness programs and resilience training haven’t been effective because they don’t get to the root of the problem. We need a radical new approach to sustainable performance.
That’s why I created Burnout by Design™.
In 2017, while working as the Music Director for the Broadway musical Hamilton, I experienced a stress-related heart attack at the age of forty-three. That event fundamentally changed how I think about work and achievement and helped shape the methodology I use today.
Burnout isn’t just a resilience problem. It’s a design gap that requires a shared commitment to sustainable success. When organizations get that right, trust grows, performance improves, and people choose to stay.
Burnout by Design™ creates the foundation for that future. It uncovers personal and organizational drivers of burnout, and reverse-engineers it to reveal exactly what needs to change.
Audiences leave with stronger alignment between leaders and teams and a clear roadmap for a more sustainable way of working.
Burnout doesn’t have to be the price of success. Success simply needs intentional design.
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“Sustainable work design isn’t optional anymore. Align organizational systems and individual patterns, you get better results, healthier culture, and stronger retention.”
Burnout by Design™ moves beyond wellness interventions and resilience training to reverse-engineer burnout and create sustainable performance. Julian’s proven framework, Perfect Equilibrium®, uncovers the personal and organizational drivers of burnout, identifies the areas requiring recalibration, and helps audiences design a shared path to renewed energy, trust, and lasting impact.
A Complete Diagnosis of Burnout
Pinpointing the personal patterns and organizational systems driving it.
A Personalised Strategy
A clear and repeatable framework for recognizing, managing, and interrupting the patterns that limit performance, engagement, and recovery.
Renewed Agency and Control
Healthier decisions and practical changes attendees can make immediately.
Shared Language and Responsibility
Stronger trust, accountability, and team connection built on shared awareness and collective responsibility.
Clear Organizational Priorities
A clear view of where recalibration will create the greatest impact across systems, working practices, and leadership.
Intelligent Work Design
Intelligent work design that enables sustainable high performance and long-term success.
Audience Transformation
Recognize what’s misaligned. Recalibrate what needs to change.
Perfect Equilibrium® gives individuals and organizations a shared framework for identifying the drivers of burnout, recalibrating what needs to change, and designing more sustainable ways of working.
Designed to be
Remembered.
A story audiences can feel.
Julian’s stress-related heart attack at forty-three brings unusual honesty and intimacy to the conversation.
Experience audiences can trust.
A 25-year elite-performance career, including Hamilton, gives Julian firsthand understanding of the pressures behind sustained achievement.
Clarity audiences can act on.
Organizational psychology and behavior-change research make every insight practical and immediately applicable.
A room fully engaged.
World-class storytelling, stagecraft and active participation turn a difficult subject into a memorable shared experience.
"To say that Julian is captivating and inspiring is such an understatement. His keynote reinforced the values we care about most and gave us practical resources people could use immediately. I’m forever grateful for the impact he had on our employees."
— Darlene Gallinger-Long, Account Specialist, Standard Insurance
"Our ERG leaders had been asking for deeper support around mental health, and Julian absolutely nailed it. His beautifully executed presentation had the whole room participating and taking notes, and I would absolutely recommend him to anyone.”
— Julie Rasfeld, Culture & Employee Experience Leader, GE Aerospace
"Julian’s message had a huge impact on our team. We’re still having conversations about the commitment they made in the room, and I’m hopeful that leads to real change in how our leaders take care of their wellbeing."
— Taera Childers, Ph.D., Area Superintendent, Learn4Life Education Network
Sustainable Performance Starts Here.