​NABEELA ELSAYED IN CONVERSATION WITH LAURA HAMMOND, BREAKING BURNOUT FOR HR LEADERS

​​WHO THIS IS FOR

​Most rooms about burnout are built to make you feel better for ninety minutes. This one is built to change what you believe about why you are tired, because the belief is what holds the exhaustion in place.

​We tend to treat burnout as a personal failure. A stamina problem. A boundaries problem. Something the exhausted person should have handled better. Breaking Burnout makes the opposite case: burnout is what happens when the definition of success you were handed was never survivable in the first place.

​People who are tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix. The executive still performing at full capacity and quietly running on empty. The parent who cannot switch off. The high achiever wondering whether this is simply what success feels like now. So basically everyone.

​​THE MORNING

​The Talk: Nabeela on the Burnout Loop: how ambition becomes a closed circuit, and where the exit actually sits.

​The Conversation: a live discussion and questions from the room. Nabeela will then take the audience through one exercise from the Reimagine Success Roadmap.

​Bring something to write with.

​​THE AUTHOR

​ABOUT NABEELA

​Nabeela Elsayed spent 25 years climbing from a barista earning $6.50 an hour to the C-suite, becoming CHRO of IKEA US, then CHRO and COO of Walmart Canada, running 400+ stores and 100,000 employees across transformations in 47 countries.

​She spent two decades climbing the corporate ladder and quietly burning out. She did everything right, and everything she tried failed. Then one day she stopped pretending and started talking about her burnout and realized most of the high achievers around her were experiencing the same thing, and no one seemed to know how to get off the burnout loop. She went looking for answers. Breaking Burnout presents the findings and solutions she discovered.

​Breaking Burnout (Post Hill Press / Simon & Schuster) is her first book. It will be published on 27 October 2026.

​ABOUT LAURA

​Laura Hammond is a self-described “people person” with nearly two decades of experience as an HR executive in the public and private sectors, from Health Canada to H&M, Aritzia and Tia. Today she is Founder and Principal Consultant at The People People, where she helps purpose-driven organizations build people strategies that put care at the centre.

​She has led teams across countries and continents, mentored HR leaders in Canada, the US, Japan and South Korea, and helped organizations earn recognition from Great Place to Work, The Business of Fashion and Forbes. She received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and has raised over $75,000 for mental health research while speaking openly about her own mental health journey.

​​A FREE BURNOUT ASSESSMENT

​If you think you are experiencing burnout and want to know for sure, take the free and scientifically backed burnout assessment before you come: https://nabeela-elsayed-consulting.involve.me/burnout-assessment-copy-3bed6b6dc976