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Leading with Care: Burnout Prevention and Wellness Strategies for Nonprofit Teams with Mallory Casperson

Leading with Care: Burnout Prevention and Wellness Strategies for Nonprofit Teams with Mallory Casperson

Recorded live on Wednesday, October 23rd 2024

Take time for yourself and your team as Mallory shares her personal insights on self-care, team care, and work-life balance. With the holiday season fast approaching and our schedules becoming increasingly hectic, learning how to manage stress and avoid burnout is more important than ever. Discover practical tips for avoiding burnout, crafting policies that reflect the values of care and compassion, and finding balance when you're the one in charge and struggle to unplug. Through her journey, she has learned how to continue giving the best support to her community while ensuring her own well-being and that of her team. This event is a must for leaders dedicated to sustainability in their mission-driven work

Teams can walk away from this episode learning:

  • How understanding your team’s motivations helps maintain a supportive environment.

  • How to address compassion fatigue

  • Consequences of unaddressed burnout,

  • How to initiate a conversation on burnout, its indicators, and strategies for self-care and team support.

  • How implementing strategies and policies to support team members can help shape a successful work culture. and support emotional boundaries effectively.

About the Speaker:

Mallory Casperson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cactus Cancer Society.  Cactus Cancer Society is a nonprofit organization providing online support programs to young adult cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.  Her career began in Aerospace Engineering where she received an MS degree and half a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as working with the Air Force Research Lab and with NASA. After facing cancer as a young adult caregiver and then as a patient, Mallory founded Cactus Cancer Society.  She has worked to put Cactus Cancer Society at the forefront of survivorship digital health, developing programming that offers young adults facing cancer unparalleled accessibility to face-to-face peer connection, while simultaneously expanding supportive and creative programming to the inpatient or isolated, young adult cancer patient population.  She is a recipient of the 40 Under 40 In Cancer award.  In her spare time, Mallory loves being outside with her partner, young kiddo, wild rescue dog, or snuggling with their tiny bearded dragon.