Building Healthy, Sustainable Teams - Together

Building Healthy, Sustainable Teams — Together

Tools and insights to create healthy, sustainable organizations — from the inside out.

You don’t need another generic leadership newsletter.

You need thoughtful, evidence-based guidance that actually helps you navigate today’s workplace realities — rising burnout, stretched teams, moral injury, and constant change.

The Breakthrough newsletter is written for leaders, managers, HR professionals, and purpose-driven organizations who care deeply about both performance and people.

When you join our bi-weekly mailing list, you’ll receive:

• Practical strategies for preventing burnout and compassion fatigue.

• Insights on building psychologically safe, resilient workplace cultures.

• Leadership tools grounded in real-world experience and research.

• Reflections on what’s really happening in today’s workplaces.

• Early access to workshops, resources, and events.

No fluff. No overwhelm. Just thoughtful content you can actually use.

This newsletter is for you if:

• You’re responsible for people and culture — and you want to do it well.

• You’re seeing signs of stress, disengagement, or exhaustion in your teams.

• You want to lead in a way that’s sustainable, not reactive.

• You care about psychological safety, boundaries, and long-term well-being.

• You believe healthy workplaces don’t happen by accident.

If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place.

Breakthrough has supported over 5,000 leaders and employees across Canada through workshops, consulting, and coaching.

Our work is grounded in:

• Leadership development

• Burnout prevention research

• Trauma-informed and psychologically safe practices

• Real experience in healthcare, law enforcement, social services, and corporate environments

This newsletter reflects the same care, depth, and integrity we bring to our work with organizations.

Build a Culture Where People Thrive

Receive grounded, practical insights to help you lead with clarity, compassion, and confidence — even in demanding environments.

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Healthy People + Sustainable Teams = Better Work

Breakthrough Personal & Professional Development Inc. is based in Kitchener, Ontario — serving organizations across Canada and the US.

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Burnout Assessment Resources

Free Burnout Assessment video

The Burnout Assessment is your first step toward recognizing employee burnout and supporting mental health in your workplace.

Download the Burnout Assessment

Learn more and download your free Burnout Assessment.

Free Guide to the Burnout Assessment

Learn how to effectively evaluate employee burnout risk across your organization.

Workshop Workbook

Burnout Assessment: Evaluating employee burnout risk across your organization.

We make evaluating your team easy.

Whether you have a team of 5 or an employee base of 1000, we provide an electronic employee survey of the Burnout Assessment using one of the world’s top platforms.

Contact us to talk about assessing your workforce using the online Burnout Assessment.

Simple. Measurable. Efficient.

Are you a leader who wants to learn how we help organizations like yours prevent employee burnout and create a culture of happy, healthy employees?

Reach out to us today.

Disconnect From Work Act

Disconnect From Work Act Policy Guide

Learn how to create a quick and effective Disconnect From Work policy for your organization.

The Disconnect From Work Act is part of the new Working For Workers Act mandated by the Ontario government and comes into effect on June 2, 2022.

In this guide, you will learn how the Act affects your organization and how to create an informed policy. Download your free guide today.

Disconnect From Work Policy

You will learn what the new Act means for Ontario organizations and key inclusions for your policy.

Within this document, you will find:

• Does the Act apply to your organization?

• Questions the Act raises

• Healthy workplace culture

• Six policy inclusions

• Five work-life balance recommendations

• References

Get your free Disconnect From Work Act policy guide today.

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Transforming the Conversation Around Burnout

North America’s most comprehensive Burnout Assessment changes how organizations prevent employee burnout

Kitchener, Ontario.

Breakthrough Personal & Professional Development Inc. announced that it is providing its Burnout Assessment free to the public. The Burnout Assessment is the most comprehensive, industry-leading tool for organizations and individuals to recognize burnout potential.

“Organizations are losing their top performers to burnout. I’m on a mission to end burnout and believe everyone should have free access to the Burnout Assessment so both organizations and individuals can thrive.”

— Bonita Eby, CEO, Breakthrough Personal & Professional Development Inc.

Features:

• The first Burnout Assessment was created as a resource for leaders and managers to evaluate employee burnout risk factors before it's too late.

• It is the first Burnout Assessment to evaluate workplace stressors and resulting work-life balance challenges in one comprehensive tool.

• The Burnout Assessment enables organizations to strategically address common burnout factors to support employee mental health and change their company culture for greater employee retention.

• The only Burnout Assessment to include categories for diversity, equity and inclusion.

• A resource for both organizations and individuals to prevent and overcome burnout.

The Burnout Assessment is available immediately for free. For more information, visit https://www.break-through.ca/burnout-assessment.

About:

Breakthrough Personal & Professional Development Inc. specializes in burnout prevention and wellness for organizations and individuals at the intersection of health and leadership development.

About Bonita Eby, CEO: My professional healthcare and leadership development background and personal burnout experience compelled me to design a Burnout Assessment from a leadership and healthcare perspective.

Important: Links

• Download your copy of the Burnout Assessment.

• More information about the Burnout Assessment.

• Media Kit with official biographies and downloadable images.

• Explainer video.

Mental Health Resources Toolkit

Mental Health Resources Toolkit

Download a PDF copy of the Mental Health Resources Toolkit

Mental health resources in Canada & Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge & Guelph

The Mental Health Resources Toolkit has moved to the Blog section.

You can read the full article at Mental Health Resources Toolkit: Supporting employee well-being with practical strategies and resources here.

Prioritizing employee well-being through mental health support is essential. A healthy, happy team is more productive, engaged, and resilient and less likely to suffer from workplace stress, burnout, vicarious trauma or compassion fatigue.

The new page contains the Mental Health Resources Toolkit, which you can download using the button above. It has been updated to include mental health resources for burnout, compassion fatigue, and workplace stress, for first responders, military personnel, veterans, and the general public.

Year In Review Guide

Year In Review

Use this reflection guide to reflect on the past year, build resilience, and set new goals.

Reviewing your past year gives you an objective basis on which to plan your next year. Download this guide to review your past year and dream for the future.

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Year-end Review Guide

Use this guide to reflect upon your past year with a variety of insightful questions based upon your personal and professional life.

• Reflect on your top five achievements.

• Celebrate the challenges you overcame.

• Implement the skills and lessons you learned.

• Reflect on what you learned about yourself.

• Consider your most important relationships.

• Reflect upon your sphere of influence.

• Determine your greatest impact.

• Contemplate your losses.

• Celebrate your wins.

• Discern your hopes and dreams.

Discover your wins and recognize your losses to build a more resilient future.

You can build the future you dream of.

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Employee Burnout Prevention: How to open the burnout conversation with employees.

Employee Burnout Prevention

Your guide to opening the conversation about burnout with your employees.

Burnout and unresolved stress have become major concerns for employers. By providing training and resources for your employees at every level, your organization can reduce employee burnout.

Twelve-step guide

In this 12-step guide, you will find learn how leaders and managers can open the conversation about burnout with those they oversee.

Included in the guide:

• Twelve-step process for creating a psychologically safe environment for talking about burnout.

• How to prepare your leadership team.

• Effective communication.

• Planning an organization-wide professional development day.

• Guiding exercise for your team.

• Access to the Burnout Assessment.

• Actionable steps.

Employee burnout is preventable.

Happy, healthy employees create healthy organizations that thrive!

Click the button above to download your guidebook today.