Burnout… the reason for my lame coffee order

In a post first published on Private Media’s internal blog, chief operating officer Ai Mawdsley shares her history of burnout, and offers her expert, informed advice on coping with it

Those in Private Media’s Melbourne office may have said or heard this before: “… a soy decaf what?”

I’ve had workplace burnout three times (I didn’t know that was what it was called the first time). This is not something I am proud of, as clearly it is evidence that I don’t learn from past experience! But in my defence, the cause of each burnout episode was quite different…

Episode 1

I was part of an Accenture sales team working on a pitch that required me to travel every week for four months.