The Capacity Your Business Depends On
Most solutions address the person or the system.
We do both. By redesigning how the work flows, and supporting the people carrying it.
Your team is showing up.
That doesn’t mean they have the bandwidth for the complex work required.
Here’s what’s happening.
Individual Level
Chronic stress doesn't make people less capable. It limits access to the capability they have. Working memory narrows. Decision quality drops. Creative thinking goes quiet before the calendar does. The body signals it before anyone names it.
Company Level
When uncertainty, pressure, and stress is building collectively across leaders and teams, visible activity may stay intact. But strategic thinking erodes. Collaboration stalls. Cynicism increases. The engagement survey catches it eventually, usually months after the capacity was already gone.
For Workplaces
We partner with high-growth companies to address three forces that are colliding at once.
Hybrid Fragmentation: Teams are harder to align, harder to connect, and the informal moments that used to build trust are gone.
AI Transformation: Our research found that unclear AI expectations are the second-strongest predictor of decreased long-term capacity. When teams can't absorb change, AI tools become shelfware. We build the capacity that makes transformation stick.
Always-On Disconnection: The exhaustion of overload leads people to deprioritize exactly what would restore them: rest, connection, recovery.
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Why Now?
Employees aren’t just overloaded.
They’re operating inside systems that fragment attention, blur priorities, and keep teams stuck in reaction mode.
Expectations are shifting faster than teams can absorb.
Workflows are shaped by interruption, urgency, and constant context switching.
There’s more complexity with less space to recover or think.
Employees are facing increased pressure to perform, often with fewer resources, with increasing uncertainty and lack of clarity.
Cognitive bandwidth is shrinking under AI acceleration and digital noise, resulting in decision fatigue and avoiding complex, strategic thinking.
These aren’t resilience problems. These are all capacity problems. What’s missing is the infrastructure to support the people carrying the change
Our Research
Most research describes the problem. Ours was designed to diagnose it.
Our research with the Center for Health and Business at Bentley University found when burnout was high, it was hidden behind visible markers of activity, which masked the underlying decline in true innovation capacity. We mapped the workplace conditions driving this.
86% of working professionals reported moderate to high burnout.
Burnout emerged as the strongest predictor of diminished innovation capacity.
“Uncertainty about my role” + “unclear expectations about the role of AI in my work” were the two strongest burnout predictors and risks for lower sustained innovation capacity.
36% of our sample were "Overextended" with high visible output, low sustainable capacity, and highest levels of burnout.
Not sure where your team stands?
The Capacity Diagnostic is a FREE assessment that maps where the friction is, before it shows up in your performance data.
Four dimensions. One clear picture of where capacity is holding and where it's leaking.
Burnout Risk Is your organizational environment generating burnout risk or protecting against it?
Operating Capacity Does the way work gets done protect focused execution or quietly fragment it?
Cognitive Bandwidth Do your employees have the capacity to lead or are they just barely keeping up?
Support and Trust Do your people feel safe enough to surface problems early or are they managing quietly until it's expensive?
It takes 3-5 minutes. Results are instant. And it's free.
Meet the Founder
Hi I’m Alison, and I founded unBurnt to create a solution I wish existed when I was burning out.
I’m a former Chief of Staff & VP of Strategy + Analytics at a $1B global company. I spent nearly 20 years in corporate roles, across finance (Morgan Stanley), eCommerce (Wayfair pre-IPO), and HRTech (Workhuman). I climbed the ladder, diligently checking every box as I hustled my way to the top.
But then a health scare in 2023 forced me to stop. And in that pause, I saw something I hadn't been able to see while I was living inside the fog. Almost everyone I talked to was struggling to keep up with the demands and pressure at work, most didn’t feel comfortable naming it at work, and nearly every solution was aimed at the individual. Apps. Resilience training. EAPs. All of them placed the burden of fixing a systems problem on the people being broken by the system.
Nobody was touching the conditions, while supporting the humans delivering the work. That's what unBurnt exists to fix.
I’m also an Executive in Residence, Center of Health and Business, Bentley University, and I co-authored the paper, When Burnout Looks Like Productivity: The New Risk to Innovation Capacity (2026), unpacking the hidden signs of burnout and its impact on innovation and capacity.
Alison Campbell | Founder, unBurnt | Connect on LinkedIn
What people are saying
About our Programming
“Alison ran an excellent (offsite) workshop for my team. Focused on resilience and personal wellbeing, it was great theory translated to even better practice. Since then, she has engaged deeper with the team and is offering great support.”
— Tracey Dawson | TA Head of Neuroscience, Novartis
About the Impact of our Research
“I read it, it’s really important, and I actually made two changes at Workbar since reading it. For our sales cycle we don’t take the foot off the gas, every month it restarts. After reading this, I thought, we should give everyone a break on the first of the month to reset. To have some sort of break they can look forward to, and from a certainty perspective, know it’s coming. So they can push really hard at the end of the month, and know that on the first of the month, they won’t have to focus on sales.
- Sarah Travers | CEO, Workbar
The Invisible Costs of Burnout
Decision delays, rework, and turnover are all expensive hallmarks. They build when leadership capacity is stretched and employees stop naming the real issues.
But most companies don’t see the cost of burnout in real time, instead:
Strategic priorities stall
Priorities blur and expectations become unclear
High performers shift into reaction and short-term work
Use this interactive FREE cost calculator to surface signals of execution drag using industry benchmarks for burnout-related turnover and productivity loss.