The Quiet Burn: The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Recognizing and Preventing Burnout by Blades, Lynn

The Quiet Burn: The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Recognizing and Preventing Burnout (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781639081301)

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The Quiet Burn: The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Recognizing and Preventing Burnout by Blades, Lynn

The Quiet Burn: The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Recognizing and Preventing Burnout

$21.95
The Quiet Burn: The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Recognizing and Preventing Burnout by Blades, Lynn

The Quiet Burn: The Ambitious Woman's Guide to Recognizing and Preventing Burnout

$21.95
Format: Hardcover
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You're holding it all together on the surface, but inside, there's a quiet fire smoldering. The relentless pursuit of career success, the weight of caregiving expectations, and the shadow of unequal pay burn your wick down, leaving you on the brink of exhaustion.

Women have been conditioned to handle it all, but that invisible Superwoman cape often feels like a noose. Society's expectations are high, and prioritizing yourself is undervalued. How long can we burn at both ends before we disappear in the flames?

Lynn Blades, an experienced executive leadership coach, has spent decades advising women in Fortune 500 companies and independent businesses. Her message is clear: it's time to rewrite the rules. Lynn offers practical tools to help women recognize and prevent burnout and empower them to reclaim their lives--strategies like saying no, practicing guilt-free self-care, and silencing self-doubt.

This book is a call to action. When women burn out, the world suffers. The Quiet Burn proves that prioritizing well-being isn't just self-care; it's revolutionary. It's time to demand more, to extinguish burnout, and to build a life in which you thrive boldly and unapologetically on your terms.



Author: Lynn Blades
ISBN-10: 1639081305
ISBN-13: 9781639081301
Publisher: Fast Company Press
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.91w x 0.88d
By Lynn Blades
By Lynn Blades
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As the founder of Legacy Leadership, an executive leadership consultancy, and a dedicated DEI advocate, Lynn Blades has strived to cultivate a twenty-first-century leadership workforce that truly reflects the diversity of our society.

Lynn is a distinguished Marshall Goldsmith elite executive coach with eighteen years of experience guiding a diverse range of clients. She has coached C-suite executives, directors, and their teams across various industries, including finance, law, auditing, medicine, marketing, media, luxury, sports, and music. Her impressive clientele includes prestigious Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies like Nike, KPMG, EY, Barclays, and PayPal.

Lynn has also provided executive coaching to media professionals at leading organizations such as Sony Music, BBC, Viacom, Universal, Disney, Fox Searchlight, Warner Bros., Soho House, and TLC Worldwide. In addition, she facilitates monthly three-day leadership summits for female leaders through Baroness Margaret McDonagh and Lorna Fitzsimons's Pipeline, an initiative dedicated to advancing women in leadership positions across various sectors, including the Home Office, Jaguar, and Deloitte.

Moreover, Lynn is a founding member of AllBright, an organization committed to the empowerment of women. Here, she helped create "Elevate," a year-long executive leadership course designed to foster leadership skills among women.

She co-created and currently leads the Leading Diverse Teams program for organizational leaders in both the public and the private sectors, with esteemed clients such as the UK Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, Aon, and Tate. Lynn is a contributor to Forbes magazine and a member of their Coaches Council. She also serves on various boards focused on fostering the leadership skills of young, diverse talent, including the Creative Access advisory board, Working Title Films' London Screen Academy, and Frontier Learning Trust in partnership with Imperial College.

Recently, she was appointed chair of the board of trustees for New Curators, an international curation program founded by renowned former Tate curators Mark Godfrey and Kerryn Greenberg. Their mission is to democratize museum curation by welcoming diverse talent into the field.

Lynn's exceptional communication skills and distinctive can-do attitude were honed during her celebrated career as an award-winning journalist. She worked with leading international networks such as CBS, CNN, CNBC, BBC, ITV, and Showtime, where she developed, wrote, presented, and produced both hard news and entertainment programs.

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