If you know my career story, you know that I experienced both compassion fatigue and professional burnout. But for us high-performing Women if Color in leadership, sometimes what we call burnout is identity loss.
Here’s how it may be showing up:
✅ You’ve been over-functioning for years, silence can feel unfamiliar or even scary.
✅ You’ve spent years being the mediator, the fixer, the strong one.
✅ You’re trying to “bounce back’ into who you used to be
In this video, “How to Reconnect with Yourself After Burnout | For Women of Color in Leadership”, I offer an invitation to begin the journey back to you.
This is a follow-up to my video “This Isn’t Just Burnout – It’s Identity Loss”, where I share:
✅ How to make space to hear yourself again
✅ How to reclaim your inner voice
✅ How to rebuild from your core
We’re moving beyond introduction to solution. In the second video I share 3 practical ways to start reconnecting with yourself because this recovery isn’t about productivity — it’s about softness, wholeness, and truth.
I accept this as my assignment. As a social work-trained leader, workplace wellness advocate, and founder of Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting. I help Women of Color leaders liberate themselves from toxic systems and reconnect with themselves – their power, purpose, and peace. Take a moment after viewing and let me know what resonated with you most in either of these videos. Feel free to share your insights and experiences in the comment section under the video.
If you’re ready to STOP shrinking and start leading from wholeness, softness, and truth — BOOK your Power Hour: Identity Reclamation Session and let’s help you reconnect to your peace, purpose, and power.
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Nicki Sanders, MSW, is committed to career development, professional development, and organizational development. As Founder and CEO of Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting, her mission is simple – to eliminate toxic workplaces by developing skilled, empathetic, and goal-oriented leaders who have the vision, support, and resources to create a culture where business prospers, and employees thrive individually and collectively. Nicki has an extensive background in nonprofit management leading high-functioning, multi-disciplinary teams, volunteer recruitment and retention, and social impact programming. She is a thought leader dedicated to dismantling the outdated, narrow view of social work and an accomplished professor, coach, trainer, and group facilitator who has combined her gift for authentic relationships, Master of Social Work degree, and over 20 years of diverse work experience to create a life and career aligned with her values and purpose. She is a lover of nature, cupcakes, travel, and 80’s hip hop and R&B music.
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