Reclaim Your Energy,
Honor Your Capacity.
We provide burnout prevention tools and capacity-building strategies for individuals and organizations ready to thrive without the grind.
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Discover your current capacity state and build your path to balance.
The Capacity Assessment Tool is a dynamic resource designed to help you identify your current capacity state—whether you’re depleted, fatigued, or maximized. By pinpointing where you stand, the tool provides tailored strategies and actionable steps to optimize your energy, focus, and productivity. This self-guided process empowers you to honor your limits, embrace sustainable ambition, and prevent burnout.
Scientifically Validated Insights
Our Capacity Assessment Tool is grounded in research and validated psychological frameworks, ensuring accurate and meaningful results. This scientifically-backed approach helps identify critical factors like emotional exhaustion, energy reserves, and focus levels, enabling actionable insights that drive measurable improvement.
Why It Matters: Employees with well-managed capacity experience a 20% boost in productivity, fostering a healthier, more engaged workforce.
Quantifiable Impact on the Bottom Line
Organizations that understand and actively manage their team’s capacity see measurable savings. Studies show businesses can reduce operational inefficiencies by up to 30% simply by aligning workload with employee capacity.
Why It Matters: Avoid the hidden costs of burnout, such as missed deadlines and errors, while increasing output and maintaining high-quality standards.
Retain Top Talent with Just a 5% Improvement
Employee turnover is expensive—costing up to 2x an employee’s salary. Companies that invest in understanding and supporting their team’s well-being can increase retention by up to 5%, saving thousands annually in recruitment and training expenses.
Why It Matters: Employees who feel supported are 3x more likely to stay with their employer, reducing costly turnover and preserving institutional knowledge.
Reserved, Depleted, Indulgent, Sustained, Fatigued or Maximized
Our load management and capacity tools help you adjust your workload and work life balance.
A McKinsey Health Institute survey of nearly 15,000 employees across 15 countries revealed that, on average, one in four employees report experiencing burnout symptoms.
Why It Matters: This significant prevalence underscores the urgent need for effective burnout prevention strategies to maintain employee well-being and organizational productivity.
Employees experiencing burnout are 63% more likely to take a sick day and 50% less likely to discuss performance goals with their supervisor.
Why It Matters: Burnout not only affects individual health but also hampers communication and engagement, leading to higher turnover rates and increased recruitment costs.
Organizations that fail to address burnout face substantial financial repercussions, including increased absenteeism, reduced productivity, and higher healthcare costs.
Why It Matters: Investing in burnout prevention programs can mitigate these costs, leading to a more resilient and efficient workforce.
Addiction to distraction is
eroding our capacity.
Melanie Sodka’s TEDx talk, titled “Burnout: How Addiction to Distraction is Eroding Our Capacity,” addresses the pervasive issue of distraction in modern society and its detrimental effects on our well-being. As a human behavior enthusiast, Melanie helps overwhelmed individuals who are overcommitted and distracted.
Through her structures and frameworks, she reveals how our addiction to distraction is literally breaking down our bodies. In this talk, she takes the audience on an entertaining and thought-provoking journey to better understand their capacity and commitment tendencies.
Our feedback is more than just stars.
Profound and lasting impact
In October 2024, Melanie was our keynote speaker for our year end team event which included over 100 staff. Although the time we had with Melanie was short, the profound and lasting impact she had on us was immeasurable. Melanie navigated through complex themes with ease while paying appropriate attention to sensitive issues. Melanie was able to successfully master the paradoxical balance of opposing emotions that ranged from hilarious to compassionate, vulnerable to powerful, and anecdotal to factual!
Ajay Maudhoo
Opened my eyes!
I enjoyed this Capacity Course so much as it opened my eyes to the conversations I needed to have with myself to become a better version of me. I learned my strengths and weaknesses don’t define me and where I need to create boundaries to ensure I am well.
Anissa Voisin
Made beneficial changes
The Capacity Course provides attendees with essential tools to help anyone who is looking to improve the quality of their time and recalibrate their priorities. I was able to take stock of how I’ve spent my time, identify what boundaries I needed to establish & shift perspectives to make more beneficial changes.
HD
Life changing
This course was a life changing eye opening class. It teaches me how to react to things in way I would never do and how to take a step back on my career and focus more on family and reducing burnout.
The best part was the grief session it taught me that it’s ok to grief and it’s ok to not do things the traditional way and for me to share that with a friend and be more open to understand that changes.
SR
I will be recommending this program or delivery of its messages to the company I work for. The content would we perfect to empower employees at any financial institution!
Allocation of capacity while working from home is critical. Melanie delivers bite size concepts and vocabulary to say no without guilt. Fabulous course!
Brenda Burjaw
Insightful, inspiring, engaging,
wise and funny!Melanie gave the keynote speech at our Women’s Leadership Network event in November 2024. She is equal parts insightful, inspiring, engaging, wise, and funny. She gave our group great and usable advice on combating burnout and preserving ourselves. We laughed (and cried) and received so much positive feedback. We cannot say enough about how great Melanie was for our event. Thank you so much, Melanie!
Nicole McAuley
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