357: How to Lead Without Burning Out with Mita Broca

About this episode

Mita Broca discusses the importance of sustainability in leadership and the impact of burnout on organizational success.

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Most leaders know sustainability as an environmental strategy. Reduce waste. Lower your carbon footprint. Build circular systems. But there is a version of sustainability that is not on any corporate dashboard. It lives inside the people responsible for executing strategy. And when it runs out, everything fails. In this episode, I had an incredible conversation with Mita Broca , Sustainability Leader of the PMI Norway Chapter, facilitator, and storyteller based in Oslo, Norway. Mita brings over 15 years of global experience partnering with orgs like Unilever, IKEA, Shell, and MasterCard. Working in sustainability, leadership, and human development, she makes it clear you cannot build regenerative organizations with depleted people. What You Will Learn The difference between extractive and regenerative ways of working. Why 70% of large-scale transformation efforts fail and what it actually costs. The burnout signals that are already present and most leaders override them. One practical shift you can make this week to protect your energy and sustain your IMPACT…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Barnard

Guest: Mita Broca

Topics covered

• leadership
• sustainability
• burnout
• organizational strategy
• human development
• transformation efforts

Keywords

• sustainability
• leadership
• burnout
• regenerative organizations
• transformation
• energy protection
• PMO

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PMI Norway Chapter, Unilever, IKEA, Shell, MasterCard

Places: Oslo, Norway

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