The only original burnout research built specifically on your industry.
Accounting and professional services firms run on effort. My research shows why effort alone isn't enough to prevent burnout — and The Grounded Firm Process is what I built to fix it.
Most burnout initiatives at professional services firms are generic — a wellness stipend, a resilience workshop, an EAP nobody uses. They treat burnout as an individual problem to manage instead of a systems problem to fix. My research says otherwise: in a study of 212 professionals, including the accounting professionals this process was built for, 73% were working in conditions long known to produce burnout, regardless of their individual effort or resilience — and the most acute burnout profile skewed toward the top of the org chart, partners and firm leaders, not just staff. That's the pattern The Grounded Firm Process is built to interrupt. This is built specifically for managing partners and firm leadership at accounting and professional-services firms who are watching busy-season burnout translate into turnover, disengagement, or leaders quietly checking out — and who've already tried generic wellness programs without seeing it change.
Before anything else, we talk through what's actually happening in your firm — where the pressure is concentrated, and whether the pattern in your firm matches the pattern in the research.
2. A Real Assessment Of The Firm's Climate
Using the WAVE framework (Worry, Ambiguity, Velocity, Equilibrium), we get an accurate read on the actual conditions driving burnout at your firm — not a generic survey.
3. A Plan Built For Your Firm
Using the same core methodology behind 1:1 executive coaching and organizational engagements: real assessment data, leadership-level feedback woven directly into the plan, and action items tied to metrics that actually get tracked — not a binder that gets filed away after busy season ends.
