About Cait

End Burnout Culture, Boldly.

BurnBOLD™ is the burnout advisory and consultancy led by keynote speaker Cait Donovan. Cait helps organizations build burnout-informed leaders and cultures through high-impact speaking & advisory and practical, research-backed tools that hold up in real life.

Built for managers, people leaders, and the helpers & givers inside mission-driven companies.

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Keynotes · Workshops · Advisory · FRIED: The Burnout Podcast (top 1%)

Human-forward Outcome-focused Research-backed Built for leaders

Our Mission & Point of View

Human-forward. Outcome-focused.

Burnout isn’t a personal failure or a villainous company problem—it’s an ecosystem issue. At BurnBOLD™, we rebuild that ecosystem. We combine hard science with Chinese-medicine wisdom to create leaders and cultures that are clear, capacity-savvy, and bold enough to do their best work without burning out.

“You’re not broken. You’re just burned out.”

No blame. Just clarity. We don’t point fingers—we diagnose systems and fix what drains energy.
Leaders first, then ripple. When managers and people leaders get resourced, teams stabilize and results follow.
Two tracks, one outcome. Organizational speaking & advisory (Cait) plus precision coaching (Sarah) for measurable behavior change.
Evidence over aesthetics. We love a great vibe—but we measure what matters: retention, engagement, and sustainable performance.

Next up: how we work with organizations and humans—without bubble baths or band-aids.

How We Work

When work fits, people perform.

BurnBOLD partners with organizations to reduce burnout by addressing the real issue underneath it: persistent mismatches between people, roles, expectations, and systems. This work improves performance by improving fit, not by asking humans to stretch past capacity.

Organizations

Keynotes, Workshops, and Advisory with Cait

Strategic speaking and advisory that helps leaders recognize where friction is structural, not personal. Together, we realign priorities, roles, and norms so work matches the humans doing it and performance becomes sustainable.

Clearer role fit. Reduced overload and ambiguity by aligning responsibility, authority, and expectations.
Capacity-aware operations. Decisions grounded in reality, not optimism or silent sacrifice.
Less friction, more traction. Fewer burnout signals, fewer workarounds, more focused execution.
Business-relevant outcomes. Retention, engagement, delivery quality, and leadership credibility.

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Burnout drops when the work fits the humans and the system stops relying on quiet overextension.

Meet Cait

Cait Donovan, Keynote Speaker & Burnout Strategist

Cait helps organizations build burnout-informed leaders and cultures by improving the match between people, roles, expectations, and the systems that shape daily work. The result is sustainable performance without relying on quiet overextension.

Host of FRIED: The Burnout Podcast (top 1% globally), author of The Bouncebackability Factor, and a sought-after keynote speaker for mission-driven and enterprise organizations, Cait holds degrees in Biobehavioral Sciences and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her work is clear, blame-free, and relentlessly outcome-focused.

“Burnout isn’t a disaster, it’s data.”

Leader-first, ripple-wide. Aligns executives and managers on capacity, clarity, and sustainable leadership behaviors.
Match over motivation. Identifies the mismatches driving friction, churn, and overload, then builds practical corrections into how work runs.
Research + real talk. Evidence-aligned frameworks, plain-language tools, and manager-ready scripts for action now.

End Burnout Culture, Boldly.

Human-forward. Outcome-focused.

When work fits, people perform.

Keynotes, Workshops, and Advisory with Cait

Cait Donovan, Keynote Speaker & Burnout Strategist

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