AGL 366: Burnout Immunity with Kandi Wiens

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About Kandi

Kandi Wiens, EdD, MSEd, MBA, is a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, the director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education Program and the Penn Health Professions Education Certificate Program, and the academic director of the PennCLO Master’s Program. She is the author of Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work.

She frequently teaches in various graduate-level and executive-format programs across the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Thinkers50 Radar 2024 cohort, a researcher, a national speaker, and an executive coach whose work focuses on helping leaders hone and use their emotional and social intelligence to amplify their positive impact and protect themselves from burnout.

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Today We Talked About

• Kandi’s background
• Burnout
• Stress
• Health scare
• Burnout
• What causes it?
• Culture
• Leaders’ goal
• The Sweet Spot of Stress
• Open conversations about stress and deadlines
• Clear Expectations
• Boundaries
• 3 Rx Prescription
  • Recovery – Prioritize it
  • Reconnect
  • Reimagine
• Walk n Talks
• Emotional Intelligence
• Social Intelligence
• “How did that land with you?”
• The Burnout Quiz!

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• LinkedIn
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• Website
• Book

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