Your best people are running out of capacity.
The Capacity Advantage helps organisations reduce burnout, keep their best people and lift productivity, using evidence-based strategies that build individual and team capacity.
Dr Bree Hurn: researcher, speaker and ICF-accredited coach
Capacity is a business issue, not a wellbeing initiative.
When people lack the energy, focus, habits, support and systems they need, organisational performance suffers. Asking people to work harder only deepens the problem.
Many organisations invest in leadership development, wellbeing programs and productivity tools, and still see this:
- High levels of stress and fatigue
- Difficulty attracting and retaining talent
- Reduced focus and productivity
- Burnout among leaders and teams
- Growing absenteeism and presenteeism
- Teams working harder without seeing better results
The Capacity Advantage framework
Find out what is draining capacity, build it in your leaders and teams, then make it stick.
Diagnose
A clear view, from an experienced international researcher, of what is helping or hindering capacity across your organisation.
- Organisational capacity surveys
- Leadership interviews
- Focus groups
- Capacity insights reporting
Build
Evidence-based strategies that strengthen performance and wellbeing for leaders and teams.
- Attention and focus
- Energy management
- Workload management
- Leadership capacity
- Team effectiveness
Sustain
Practical systems and habits that keep the gains in place long after the workshops end.
- Coaching
- Accountability processes
- Action planning
- Progress reviews and reporting
Four ways to work together
Most organisations begin with a keynote and go as deep as they need to. Each step builds on the one before.
Keynote
An evidence-informed talk that gets your leaders and teams thinking differently about performance.
Leadership workshop
Half-day or full-day sessions on workload, attention, energy and sustainable leadership, for executive teams, managers, HR teams and school leaders.
Capacity Diagnostic
Surveys, interviews and focus groups, finishing with a Capacity Insights Report on what is draining capacity, where leaders are struggling and what it costs your performance.
The Capacity Advantage Program
Diagnose, build leadership capacity, build team capacity, then embed it over 90 days with tools, coaching and accountability. You finish with a final impact report.
Not sure where to start? Tell Bree what you are seeing and she will point you to the right step.
Keynotes
Evidence-informed talks that challenge conventional thinking about productivity, performance and wellbeing.
The Capacity Advantage
Why capacity is a strategic issue for leaders, and how to build it across a whole organisation.
Build capacity
Why High Performers Burn Out
What pushes your strongest people to the edge, and what leaders can change before they leave.
Prevent burnout
Sustainable High Performance
How to keep performing at a high level without wearing people out.
Sustain performance
Building Capacity in an Always-On World
Managing time, energy and attention when work never switches off.
Protect attention
See Bree speak
Watch a short clip from a recent keynote to get a feel for her style, pace and practical approach.
Dr Bree Hurn
Researcher, speaker, lecturer and ICF-accredited coach. Founder of The Habit Nerd.
With more than two decades of experience across education, leadership, wellbeing and behaviour change, Bree turns complex research into practical strategies that improve outcomes for individuals and organisations.
Her work draws on psychology, behaviour change science, leadership research and performance studies to help organisations build workplaces where people can thrive without sacrificing performance.
Talk to Bree
The Habit Nerd Podcast
Conversations about habits, performance and sustainable work with the researchers and leaders shaping the field.
Listen nowA quick capacity check for your team
A short guide to spotting where time, energy and attention are being lost in your team.
Let's start the conversation
Tell Bree a little about your organisation and what you would like to change. If you are not sure what you need yet, choose "Not sure" and she will help you work it out.
