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Based on Research With Accounting Professionals

FIRM BURNOUT

PROFILE ASSESSMENT

Based on research with accounting and professional service firms, four firm

profiles emerged. Answer 12 questions — takes about 3 minutes — to see

which profile best describes your firm and what to do about it.

Four Firm Burnout Profiles

The Four Firm Profiles

The Resilient Firm

Optimal & Sustainable

Sustainable Rhythm & High Trust — 12–20 pts

The Strained Firm

Elevated Friction

High Friction & Creeping Fatigue — 21–29 pts

The Overload Firm

Severe Chronic Overload

Chronic Urgency & Attrition Threat — 30–39 pts

The Crisis Firm

Acute Systemic Crisis

Systemic Breakdown & Critical Survival Mode — 40–48 pts

Research Statistics

73%

Clinically Meaningful Burnout

In national studies of professionals, 73% showed acute burnout risk—and hours alone was NOT the primary driver.

42%

Leadership In Acute Crisis

In Collins Alliance research with accounting firms, 42% of managing partners and CEOs sit in the highest burnout category.

Optimal Operating Profile

Only 1% of firms operate in true optimal resilience without deliberate, systematic boundary architecture.

Evidence-Based Questions

Distilled from 25 years of organizational psychology research by Dr. Joey A. Collins, PsyD.

Research Quote

“If work isn’t working, it’s not a people problem. Give it time — and it becomes one.”

— Dr. Joey A. Collins, PsyD · Author, When Work Doesn't Work

WHEN WORK DOESN'T WORK

“Work should work. When it doesn't — that's the whole thing.”

Evidence-based burnout diagnostic modeled on the accounting

professional research by Dr. Joey A. Collins, PsyD, licensed psychologist

and Assistant Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

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